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Create the following assignment within your small group communities. You will have multiple class periods to work on the assignment but you will also have to assign responsibilities to individuals to complete outside of class in order to complete the assignment successfully. Each group will receive a group grade as well as an individual grade. Your assignment is to create your own ending to the novel. You will write this in the form of a script and perform it for the class at the end of the unit. As a group, you must also write a 500 word description of how your ending is supported by the rest of the novel (give at least three examples of evidence in the novel that led to your ending). You should hand in the script, the written description, a credits page detailing the significant contributions and who made them, a personal log of your own daily contributions to the group, and your individual reflection on the roles you took on within your group for group work and the performance.

Create a project or essay that describes your feelings about one theme from the memories that Jonas receives from the Giver. Explore what your life would be like without this memory (ex. color, love, loss, death, sadness, happiness, etc). Projects could include, but are not limited to, a 3-5 page essay, collage, painting, sculpture, oral presentation, board game, etc. Be creative! Your project can be whatever you choose as long as it meets the requirements shown below. Please create a short description of how your project idea meets each requirement, and then discuss this with me in a one-on-one conference to get your idea approved. Students who write essays will be able to turn in drafts in order to receive feedback before they turn in their final copy. Students who create projects will be able to schedule conferences with me in place of a draft in order to receive feedback.

Choose a work of fantasy from today's pop culture. This could be a book, movie, comic book, TV show, or anything else, as long as it displays most of the elements of the Fantasy genre. Watch/read this work of fantasy and analyze the evidence of these elements in a 2-3 page essay.