Introduction: In The Giver, Jonas and his community have a very different way of life from what we think of as normal. Since "biography determines perspective," it makes perfect sense to them, but seems bizarre, laughable, interesting, or tragic to us. However, many people in our world choose to adopt or keep different ways of living in order to reinforce values that they hold as important. The idea that a person's behavior is determined by their perspective is one that I think is worth thinking a great deal about.
Today's nonfiction reading relates to The Giver as the previous two did - again we are trying to pick up a seriously meant entertainment like The Giver and see how the themes that Lowry explores DO have parallels with our world. In this way, we can use what we learn by living these alternate lives (the main characters) in our regular lives.
The Text:
So, here's the Amish introductory reading for today, which explores a social group that has chosen to live in a way very different from what we think of as "normal."
Write a WHO+WHAT+WHY central idea sentence for this reading.
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