Archetypes In The Giver

Reading Reflection
Jonas Berahovich

The greatest work I did in Reading this year was learning about archetypes, because I worked hard to get them. During book clubs, Arun taught us about the eight standard archetypes of reading. In book clubs, we were told to discuss the archetypes of the books we were reading, along with discussing about the book itself.

From this project I learned about how important archetypes are. I always was eager to get to the archetypes in our books, because of how fascinating they were. I put constructive criticism in our conversations, and added unique ideas for character archetypes. I looked hard to find characters which could fit roles that our book club found fairly hard to fill.

I’ll always remember archetypes
In this debate, there were 4 roles to be in. Undecided colonists were the majority of the class, who had to decide whether to side with the patriots or the loyalist. The French delegation were 3 students who were either going to support the patriots in fighting the war, or stay out. The patriots were people who were for having a war and leaving the British. I was a loyalist. Loyalists wanted to stick with Britain. We had to debate whether to stay with Britain and pay the taxes, or separate from the king and become a new, separate country. When ¾ of the undecided colonists are on either the patriot or the loyalist side after the debate, that settles who won.

This debate shows my best effort in History because I wrote an entire essay for my role. There were supposed to be 3 loyalists, however one of the students were absent that day, so we had less people on our back. I tried my best to keep track of everything and be reasonable when we were told to openly debate. I tried to stick to the reasons I had and my essay, even when it became apparent the undecided colonists were against
My science project was to see how plants grow differently using different liquids. First, I gathered 6 plants from a local nursery. Then, I got a pitcher of distilled water, salt water, lemonade, colored water and sugar water. I would use tap water and these liquids to water my plants with. I recorded the centimeters of the plant’s height every 3 to 4 days. At the end, I transferred the data to a line graph. I printed out all the writing for the project I had been doing and stuck it to a trifold. I then put my beautiful project up for everyone to see during Open House, along with the 5 livings plants and a dead plant that had been fed salt water.

I’m proud of this project because it took a lot of effort and care to set up the project. Watering and accurately measuring the plants was tough work, and, even if I was super careful, there was often spills. At the end, it took a lot of patience to get the line graph exactly right, and I had to start over multiple times. Printing the writing I had done, cutting it, putting construction paper under it and taping it to the trifold took around 2 hours, and was very