preview

Suspense In The Giver

Decent Essays

Semester B Unit 1 Lesson 12 Introduction and Objective Every text has an intended audience, the person or people it was written to address. The audience then has an opinion of the text during and after it is read. In order to have an opinion, the writing must have ideas that are logically grouped from the text to support the opinion. Today's lesson objective is: • Students will be able to introduce a text to the intended audience. • Students will be able to state an opinion about a text. • Students will be able to create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support an opinion about a text. • Students will be able to develop an analysis using relevant evidence from text(s) to support claims, opinions, …show more content…

What if it was stated that The Giver is full of suspense. Is this an opinion? Can it be proven? Well, you can state the many events that occur to add suspense. However, it is still an opinion, even though you can provide evidence from the story that represents suspense. The reason it is an opinion is how do you prove it is full of suspense? That is up to the reader. The question to ask is “who decides what events add suspense? We can figure out the events by finding those ones that foreshadow, such as “Pain. Physical Pain,” or have something dramatic happen, such as the “skipping over Jonas at the …show more content…

After you have done this, you need to support it with evidence from the text. An analysis suggests that the story’s message can be understood and determines if it was clearly articulated by the author. In order to do this, you have to decide what the story is about and support that decision with examples from the story. When you start to analyze the story, think about the theme, characters, setting, plot, conflict, tone, point of view, the intended audience, and even irony for clues as to how the author tried to make his or her point. Irony is a contradiction between what happens and what you expect to happen. Example 1: Let’s take another look at The Giver. Now that you have finished the book, you will need to ask yourself a few questions before creating an opinion about the text. Ask yourself the following questions: Who is the intended audience? What is the

Get Access