Performance task
- 1. PERFORMANCE TASK By: Celeste Hendry 5th period ELA
- 2. THE GIVER: JONAS Jonas is a boy in this community that’s played out as a perfect life. He is very different than the other Elevens. In a way, he acts rebellious to what the Elders, or the people in control, of the community say. Jonas is basically the black of the community.
- 3. HIS CONFLICT Jonas is turning into a Twelve, and he starts his career training. His job is to be a Receiver for the community. In this workforce, he soon finds out that his “perfect” life is not the way it seems. He soon receives memories that the community has been hiding from them. He gets to fell and that makes him very vicious; so he comes up with a plan.
- 4. SOLUTION He and The Giver make a plan for him to escape. During the Twelves’ ceremony, he escapes, and The Giver makes it to were Jonas died in a river. He’s forgotten by the community and was never spoken of again.
- 5. ZEBRA Zebra is a little boy who loved to run. Most of the people in the neighborhood knew him as Zebra because the way he ran. He was in the 7th grade and he was a very lonely child.
- 6. HIS CONFLICT Zebra was running down a hill one day, the hill was very steep, and a car hit him when he was coming around the corner of the hill. He then got a broken finger, which Zebra didn’t like. Until one day he saw a man named, Neil, who was like him but he was missing an arm. Now this man was in the Vietnam War, but Zebra didn’t know that. All he knew was that the man loved to draw and he wanted to start an art class at Zebra’s school during the summer.
- 7. SOLUTION Zebra joined Neil’s art class and soon became good friends with him. When the art class was over, Neil asked Zebra and a few other students to leave an art picture for him to remember them by. After Neil had visited the Vietnam wall in remembrance, of his former friend, he then carried the art to his studio in Virginia.
- 8. TITANIC: RUTH BECKER Ruth Becker was a 12 year old, in second class, on the luxurious Titanic. She had boarded with her mother, little brother, and her little sister, they looked forward to this cruise to America, because her father was waiting for them to come. Like any other 12 year old, she was quite amused by the texture of the ship.
- 9. HER CONFLICT It was the third day after they took sail, look-out Fredrick Fleet saw an iceberg, and soon after the ship hit the iceberg. Ruth and her mother were awaken by the commotion of the screaming people in the halls. She and her family were soon took up to the top of the ship to board lifeboats.
- 10. SOLUTION Thankfully, her and her family got off the ship in time before it sank. But as she looked back at the sinking ship she could hear the waling cries of the left people on that ship, then it just faded away in the depths of the freezing sea.
- 11. COMPARISONS In all the books, they had to overcome some type of struggle. In “The Giver,” Jonas had to overcome the barren of being a receiver. In “Zebra,” Zebra had to overcome his fear of his broken fingers. And in “The Titanic,” Ruth had to overcome the struggle of getting off the ship safely for her and her family. THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!