Objective: To reflect upon the career assignment process in The Giver in order to further understand and analyze the world Jonas and "the Giver" inhabit.
Today K and I finished reading The Giver. We both felt a combination of excitement and disappointment finishing the book. Reading The Giver aloud has been a highlight of most days for both of us. We loved how complicated the ending was, but we wanted to know more.
As an imaginative exercise and a reward for all the hard work K has put in, we did an activity called Career Cruising to accompany the reading of our last chapter. Career Cruising software is used by our school district's high school counseling department to give older students vocational direction. K and I used it today because he's 12 and 12 year-old students in The Giver are deemed adults and assigned a career based on their interests. K got his results back (among them: stuntman, dancer, gardener, zookeeper, and musician) and imagined what it would be like to be assigned such a career in a reflective writing exercise.
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