Informational Text Article--Greed
Chapter 17 Story Chart
Chapter 14 Story Chart
Informational Text-Newcomers
Chapter 17 Story Chart
Chapter 14 Story Chart
Informational Text-Newcomers
Messenger is a 2004 social science fiction novel by children's author Lois Lowry. It forms the third installment of The Giver Quartet begun by her 1993 Newberry Medal-winning novel The Giver. This novel is to take place about eight years after the events of The Giver, and about six years after the events of Gathering Blue. Characters from the two earlier books reappear in Messenger, linking the novels more strongly. Set in an isolated community known simply as Village, this novel focuses upon a boy named Matty, who serves as message-bearer through the ominous Forest that surrounds the community.
Matty lives with Seer (originally named Christopher), an "unseeing" man who the people of the Village rescued years before. Matt is desperate for his new name to be "Messenger," which is what he feels he is best at doing. Many of the people in Village are like Seer: cast out from their old communities and sometimes seriously injured. They have made themselves new homes in Village. Most of the Villagers are reasonably altruistic, and the Village never lacks in people who are willing to help another Villager overcome some disability. Matty is from a community wherein people only know what the community tells them, and where those who do not fit the norm are usually put to death.
Very early in the book, discord appears in Village. People who trade at a gathering called Trade Mart change from compassionate and generous to angry and impatient. The temperament of the Villagers changes, and they decide to close their borders, no longer permitting the displaced and unwanted of other communities to enter. Seer, in the wake of this sudden change, decides to send Matty to travel through the Forest to retrieve his daughter, who lives in a town several days away.
Matty lives with Seer (originally named Christopher), an "unseeing" man who the people of the Village rescued years before. Matt is desperate for his new name to be "Messenger," which is what he feels he is best at doing. Many of the people in Village are like Seer: cast out from their old communities and sometimes seriously injured. They have made themselves new homes in Village. Most of the Villagers are reasonably altruistic, and the Village never lacks in people who are willing to help another Villager overcome some disability. Matty is from a community wherein people only know what the community tells them, and where those who do not fit the norm are usually put to death.
Very early in the book, discord appears in Village. People who trade at a gathering called Trade Mart change from compassionate and generous to angry and impatient. The temperament of the Villagers changes, and they decide to close their borders, no longer permitting the displaced and unwanted of other communities to enter. Seer, in the wake of this sudden change, decides to send Matty to travel through the Forest to retrieve his daughter, who lives in a town several days away.
Essential Questions:
Does society influence individual desires?
What should individuals be able to trade?
How does contentment affect perspective?
Does society influence individual desires?
What should individuals be able to trade?
How does contentment affect perspective?
Introduction to Messenger Keynote
Reading Questions
Ch 1-3 -Text evidence for #3 and #5
Ch 7 & 8 --Answer in complete sentences for ALL; Text evidence for the ODDS
Ch 14 & 15--Answer ALL questions with complete sentences AND text evidence. Embed your quotes NATURALLY, friends!
Reading Questions
Ch 1-3 -Text evidence for #3 and #5
Ch 7 & 8 --Answer in complete sentences for ALL; Text evidence for the ODDS
Ch 14 & 15--Answer ALL questions with complete sentences AND text evidence. Embed your quotes NATURALLY, friends!
Messenger Culminating Project
Directions: Choose ONE of the projects on the document to complete at home. You will have very limited time to work on this in class. You MUST come prepared any day that I give you. Class time cannot be wasted. If you do not come prepared, you will lose points on the project. Due 3/27
Messenger Socratic Seminar
If you were absent, email Mrs. Salas to get your group assignment. You will have to print a copy of the seminar questions and bring them in tomorrow.
Messenger Study Guide
Messenger Exam
Directions: Choose ONE of the projects on the document to complete at home. You will have very limited time to work on this in class. You MUST come prepared any day that I give you. Class time cannot be wasted. If you do not come prepared, you will lose points on the project. Due 3/27
Messenger Socratic Seminar
If you were absent, email Mrs. Salas to get your group assignment. You will have to print a copy of the seminar questions and bring them in tomorrow.
Messenger Study Guide
Messenger Exam