Teaching The Giver: Memory, Sameness, and Identity for Grades 6-8
Teaching The Giver: Memory, Sameness, and Identity for Grades 6-8 The Giver asks middle schoolers to imagine something genuinely strange: a community that eliminated pain by eliminating choice, color, and memory itself — and to sit with the uncomfortable possibility that the trade might have been, in some narrow sense, rational. Jonas's community isn't a…