7th Grade ELA Unit 1 Performance Task

By: Jalyn Trevillion

Due: October 29,2012

4th period

Character 1: Jonas • Jonas in the book: The Giver had a

few challenges/problems.

• One challenge was that he was the Receiver of Memory and all of the people in his community have to give their burdens to him.

• Also, he does not like that his little brother, Gabriel, has to be

released because he knows what that means.

How Character 1(Jonas) Perseveres Through Adversity.

• Jonas perseveres through adversity by running away from his community with Gabriel, and found a

better community to

raise Gabriel.

Character 2: AdamCharacter 2: Adam

•Adam, which Adam, which most people call most people call him Zebra, broke him Zebra, broke his arm and hand his arm and hand from when a car from when a car hit him.hit him.

•He had lots of He had lots of pain and could pain and could not do very much.not do very much.

How Adam (Zebra) Perseveres Through Adversity

• Zebra used his imagination to make him successful with his art.

• He found ways to use this gift to help others.

Character 3:VictorCharacter 3:Victor

In the story, Seventh Grade, Victor In the story, Seventh Grade, Victor tries to impress a girl (Theresa).tries to impress a girl (Theresa).

Theresa thinks that Victor actually Theresa thinks that Victor actually knows French even knows French even

though he knows though he knows

he doesn’t.he doesn’t.

How character 3 (Victor) perseveres through adversity• Victor perseveres through adversity by

sounding like he knows French and their teacher, Mr.Bueller, goes along with it because I think that he knows that Victor has a crush on Theresa.

Reflections Page

The characters that I have chosen has overcame their fear by:

1. Jonas used his skills that he learned from The Giver to take care of Gabriel.

2. Zebra used his imagination in a good way to find his true personality (art).

3. And Theresa asked Victor to tutor her in French.

Works Cited PageWorks Cited Page

I used the following stories for my I used the following stories for my reportreport::

The GiverThe Giver ““Zebra”Zebra”““Seventh Grade”Seventh Grade”

Thank You For Watching and Have a Great Day!!