I love teaching The Giver
Well, as long as I can keep myself from nitpicking the little things, I didn’t notice the first ten times I read it. I’m not going to go into them here, bc they truly aren’t important to the overall story.
Students, as per usual, freaked out at the dystopian classroom. I wore nothing but black, white, and gray for six days. Then yesterday, RED day. I wore a red shirt, red scrunchie in my hair, red leaf earrings (it is fall after all), the pictures in the back of the room that had previously been grayscale now had red elements, and my agenda had a red background.
Immediately, students asked about all the red. We celebrated Jonas starting to see color with red starburst and jolly ranchers.
Today the room is back to full color, though they still have no pillows or rugs, sit in rows, and using overhead lights. Again they took notice immediately. I love the immersive experience
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