performance task

PERFORMANCE TASK

By: Celeste Hendry 5th period ELA

THE GIVER: JONAS

Jonas is a boy in this community that’s played out

as a perfect life. He is very different than the other

Elevens. In a way, he acts rebellious to what the

Elders, or the people in control, of the community

say. Jonas is basically the black of the community.

HIS CONFLICT

Jonas is turning into a Twelve, and he starts his

career training. His job is to be a Receiver for the

community. In this workforce, he soon finds out that

his “perfect” life is not the way it seems. He soon

receives memories that the community has been

hiding from them. He gets to fell and that makes him

very vicious; so he comes up with a plan.

SOLUTION

He and The Giver make a plan for him to escape.

During the Twelves’ ceremony, he escapes, and The

Giver makes it to were Jonas died in a river. He’s

forgotten by the community and was never spoken of

again.

ZEBRA

Zebra is a little boy who loved to run. Most of the

people in the neighborhood knew him as Zebra

because the way he ran. He was in the 7th grade and

he was a very lonely child.

HIS CONFLICT

Zebra was running down a hill one day, the hill was

very steep, and a car hit him when he was coming

around the corner of the hill. He then got a broken

finger, which Zebra didn’t like. Until one day he saw

a man named, Neil, who was like him but he was

missing an arm. Now this man was in the Vietnam

War, but Zebra didn’t know that. All he knew was

that the man loved to draw and he wanted to start an

art class at Zebra’s school during the summer.

SOLUTION

Zebra joined Neil’s art class and soon became good

friends with him. When the art class was over, Neil

asked Zebra and a few other students to leave an art

picture for him to remember them by. After Neil had

visited the Vietnam wall in remembrance, of his

former friend, he then carried the art to his studio in

Virginia.

TITANIC: RUTH BECKER

Ruth Becker was a 12 year old, in second class, on

the luxurious Titanic. She had boarded with her

mother, little brother, and her little sister, they

looked forward to this cruise to America, because

her father was waiting for them to come. Like any

other 12 year old, she was quite amused by the

texture of the ship.

HER CONFLICT

It was the third day after they took sail, look-out

Fredrick Fleet saw an iceberg, and soon after the

ship hit the iceberg. Ruth and her mother were

awaken by the commotion of the screaming people in

the halls. She and her family were soon took up to

the top of the ship to board lifeboats.

SOLUTION

Thankfully, her and her family got off the ship in

time before it sank. But as she looked back at the

sinking ship she could hear the waling cries of the

left people on that ship, then it just faded away in

the depths of the freezing sea.

COMPARISONS

In all the books, they had to overcome some type of

struggle. In “The Giver,” Jonas had to overcome the

barren of being a receiver. In “Zebra,” Zebra had to

overcome his fear of his broken fingers. And in “The

Titanic,” Ruth had to overcome the struggle of

getting off the ship safely for her and her family.

THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!