Pre test

Pretest Blog

Before the unit on The Giver begins the students would complete this pretest so that I could gain an idea on where they stand concerning the important topics that we will be covering. The first two are general terms that relate to all novels while the last four are more closely related to the specific novel. This pretest would not be a graded activity it would more resemble a journaling activity. It would be used for my benefit as the teacher to know to what length these central ideas would need to be explained. It would also give insight into how the student’s thoughts on them relate to or don’t relate to how the book depicts these concepts.

Write out what comes to mind when you hear each of the following words.

Ex. Community: where you live, the people you come into contact with, environment you spend most of time in.

Symbolism
(Possible answers that students might come up with: when something in a story represents something else, one thing stands for another, and object stands for and idea)
Theme
(Main idea, main concept, point of the story)
Utopia
(Perfection, the ideal, something is desired, a goal or dream one tries to achieve)
Hierarchy
(An order, ranking, how something is structured)
Adulthood
(Older people, responsibility, boring, having a job, having a family, hard work, less focus on fun)
Childhood
(Youth, no responsibility, have to be taken care of, less or no freedom, no job, no family)