Mr.Whattam 84's Blog

Hey Grade 8′s!!

seriously99 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:05:35 +0000

So here I am, a whole year later, STILL doing homework for Mr. Whattam… Just kidding guys

Mr. Whattam asked if I would be kind and blog about life as a grade 9 so here it is.

My life as a grade 9.

Stairs.
Class
Homework
Stairs
Class
Homework
More stairs
Class
and finally
More homework!

I`m just kidding guys, though, those are all big parts of my day!

High school is a LOT like Lincoln but with some major differences. We have two semesters which basically means I have the same classes everyday. No trying to remember what day it is anymore! *fistpump* I can tell you off the top of my head how each of my days go. P1-Tech room 101 P2-Math room 201 P3- Food and Nutrition room 407 LUNCH! P4- Science room 317 and finally P5- MSIP room 205.

yes boys and girls, I got lucky enough to have a class on each and every floor of the school for first semester. Totally makes up for not having gym!

Yeah okay, grade nines are crazy. Get used to it guys, your crazy too. I can promise you, everyone agrees with me.

One of my favourite differences between Lincoln and G.C.I is here at G.C.I. I have a class called MSIP, which I am sitting in right now, typing away on my net book. Because we have WIFI here MSIP stands for…. ehrm… yeah ask Mr. Whattam. We just call it the much improved version of study hall. We can do any homework we have, we can doodle. You have the choice as long as your quiet. You meet loads of cool people, (MSIP is a mix of every grade) So basically, if I am having issues with my grade 9 math, I can ask a grade 11 who has already done it and understands to help me out. Its a pretty awesome system! And if it so happens that we need another teacher to explain it or want one on one so that the teacher can go more in depth with whatever it is that were not understanding, we are aloud a `travel pass` so we can go and talk to a teacher who can help us out, no more giving up lunches or after school

So, I think that is a pretty detailed mix of how my life at high school is so far. I have NO doubt Mr. Whattam is going to pull this apart and have you guys edit it, I never claimed to be an editor. ;D

Have fun guys, enjoy being the top of the school. Join up and be yourself!

Talk to you kidletts later!

Sydney

Chapter 23, The End

butterfingers1 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:02:35 +0000

I don’t think that the ending of “The Giver” was a very good one since we don’t know what really happened to Jonas or Gabe since the book just ends with him sliding down a hill. Sure it leaves it open to whatever you want to happen, if you wanted them to live you could think that he actually Heard the Beyond, or you could think that they both didn’t have the strength to go on and they died. Either way I wasn’t very impressed with the ending.

Chapter 22-23 last post. #8

Darsot — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:24:45 +0000

Do you think the story has a happy or sad ending? Explain your feelings.

I really don`t know I think the ending is ambiguous meaning the reader has to make his own iinterperation on what happens at the end. But, if I had to choose one it would be happy ending. I believe that it would be happy because Jonas and Gabe escape to0 “Elsewhere” and they were also reunited with the memories of snow, light and sleds that the Giver gave him, also with the memories of music, peace, joy, and freedom and they find a better place. all in all I believe that it`s a happy ending but thats my opinion. You guys should read the second book ”Memories of the blue” it says the awnser atleast that is what I heard from my brother ( I don`t trust him). Also, it makes you kind of make your own ending.

The Giver Chapter- 20 & 23

Ellie — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:33:36 +0000

Chapter 20-
The giver encourages Jonas to leave because he realizes after many years of following the rules of the community. “Having you here with me over the past year has made me realize that things need to change.” The giver wants things to change. He feels that Jonas can help the community be releasing all the memories. The giver won’t go with Jonas because he says “Together we take away all their protection from the memoires the community will be left with no one to help them, they will be thrown into chaos they will destroy themselves.” If he leaves the memoires will be released and the community and the community will be turned into turmoil.

Chapter-23
I actually think the ending has a disappointing and confusing ending. I didn’t know what was going ot happen but not that. I was confused about the music playing at the end, it seemed like it was just a memory that the giver had given him before his time to die, (music). She left it on a whim to have another book and I don’t know whether she does have another book. It’s a very, VERY confusing ending.

chapter 16! post 7 :)

lorenaavidall — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:18:20 +0000

Discuss Jonas reaction to the experience of love and what happened when he asked his parents about love.

The first time he experienced love was when the giver gave him the memory of the family and the kids under the tree with present. Even though it didn’t say specifically that it was Christmas it led you to understand that it was. When he first got the memory he was confused about the grandparents because in his community there all together being taken care of not with their family. He was confused but he knew that he loved the feeling. Later when he got home at dinner time he asked him parents.” He made himself say the words, though he felt flushed with embarrassment. He had rehearsed them in his mind all the way home from the Annex. Do you love me?” Then Jonas mom started to explain to him that it was a “generalized word, Meaningless” even though Jonas knew that statement was very incorrect. Jonas father said that he” enjoys him and that he takes pride in his accomplishment.” But love is an inappropriate word. He said he understood but he lied.

Chapter 22-23

kassie13 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:00:08 +0000

I don’t think the ending of the story is happy or sad because it was just suddenly cut off. I was dissappointed to see it end like that. I would like to be able to know what happens to them, how Jonas’s old community reacted, if Jonas’s family got over his “loss” easily, and if they get a new receiver right away or not. Although, if I had to choose if it was a happy or sad ending, I would choose happy because Jonas and Gabe reached “Elsewhere”.

Chapter 20 (post 7)

kassie13 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:35:03 +0000

The Giver encourages Jonas to leave so that the community can bear the burden of memories themselves instead of the receiver alone. Also, the Giver thinks the community will gain wisdom from the memories, like all of the receivers have. The only part of the Giver’s plan that scared Jonas is not being able to come back. He begged the Receiver to go with him so at least they could have each other, but the Giver refused. The Giver explained to him that after Rosemary’s release the few memories she had overwhelmed the community and that they panicked. With all the memories Jonas held, it would be hard for them to bear the pain and misery. The Giver then reminded Jonas of how he needed him when he first started his training and Jonas knew that, but he still wanted the Giver to come with him. Jonas even told the Giver that they didn’t need to care about the community, but they both knew they did. The Giver told him that even if he did go he wouldn’t make because he is too weak. Some quotes from the book are, “‘I think that they can, and that they will acquire some wisdom. But it will be desperately hard for them. When we lost Rosemary ten years ago, and her memories returned to the people, they panicked. And those were such few memories, compared to yours. When your memories return, they’ll need help. Remember how I helped you in the beginning, when the receiving of memories was new to you?’” and “‘Giver,’ Jonas suggested, ‘you and I don’t need to care about the rest of them.’”

Chapter 18 (post 6)

kassie13 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:10:13 +0000

The community would suffer enormously if Jonas left. If Jonas left, all of the memories that he had received in his year of training would be released upon the community. He had received many wondrous and peaceful memories, but with the good memories always came the bad. He had great memories of birthday parties, museums, horses galloping through the fields, and many more. He also had the Giver’s favourite memory of the holiday celebration with the feeling of love. The bad memories he had received consisted of sunburns, broken bones, hunger, and the worst of them all, war. The community would also suffer greatly because he had received so many memories. Before Jonas there was a receiver named Rosemary. She had only five weeks’ worth of memories but couldn’t handle the enormous amount of pain and she mostly had received good ones. Since she couldn’t handle being the new receiver she applied for release and the memories were released upon the community. Those few terrible memories that overwhelmed her were overwhelming the community after her release and the Giver was too devastated at his own grief at her loss to even think to help them. Some proof from the book is, “Rosemary had only those five weeks’ worth, and most of them were good ones. But there were those few terrible memories, the ones that had overwhelmed her.” and “I was so devastated by my own grief at her loss, and my own feeling of failure, that I didn’t even try to help them through it. I was angry, too.”

Chapter 12 (post 4)

kassie13 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:55:31 +0000

I think that people would relinquish the ability to see colour because, that way it makes life more simple. When I say that by relinquishing colour it will be simpler, I mean that decisions will be fewer and easier. Every day we have to pick out an outfit to wear and it has to match. That decision is sometimes frustrating and if colour was totally gone it wouldn’t be, it would be easy to put an outfit together because everything would match. An example from the book is, “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”
I think it would solve some bullying problems in our society. People get made fun of for not having matching outfits or not having the latest styles. Although I say that, I wouldn’t want colour taken away, like in “The Giver”, because life would be dull and boring.

Chapter 15 (post 5)

kassie13 — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:44:28 +0000

In chapter fifteen the Giver asks Jonas to forgive him because, he had given him the memory of war. One day when Jonas entered the Annex room he realized that he was going to be sent away again, so he told the giver he would go unless there was something he could do for him. The Giver asked Jonas to take some of the pain, so Jonas did. It was very loud and foul-smelling. All around were men lying on the ground groaning with pain. Jonas then laid his eyes on a boy who was begging him for water, but then realized he himself was injured with one of his arms immobilized with pain as the ragged flesh hung by the splintered bone. Jonas gave the boy some water once he got his container open and then the boy’s head fell back and he was silent and he laid still. Jonas just laid there overwhelmed by all the pain and listening to his surroundings of men and animals dieing and cannons and guns going off. Close to death himself Jonas opened his eyes and was still on the bed, when the Giver asked Jonas to forgive him. Some proof from the book is, “The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. ‘Please,’ he gasped, ‘take some of the pain.’” and “The boy stared at him. ‘Water,’ he begged again. When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve. One of Jonas’s arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged flesh and splintery bone.” Some more proof is, “Finally, when he knew that he could bear it no longer and would welcome death himself, he opened his eyes and was once again on the bed. The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. ‘Forgive me,’ he said.”