I like the word choices you provided in blog post number one. It was very clear and I could understand what you were trying to explain and I enjoyed the whole blog post. When reading it I could tell you spent some time trying to make it. Maybe there are a bit of grammar errors but I could see that you had a great explanation. I like the fact that you know what you're talking about and the vocabulary was really good. I can see you put your good work to make this a great blog post! If I were someone who hasn't read the Giver book yet, this would be a great help because it shows your opinion and information of the book. You did very well with this blog post and you showed that you put effort into the post.

The only thing need to be improved is the fact that you made two paragraphs with the same information so if I were you, what I would do, is add the paragraphs into one, or make another paragraph about other information. For example, one paragraph is saying, NO my life shouldn't be decided for me the second saying, My parents chose also for me and the third saying, my life is my choice. That is the only thing I would suggest you fix. Other than that you did a good job with the passages.

GREAT JOB!!! :)


For blog post number two, this is very good. You changed exactly what was needed to be changed in the first blog post. Each paragraph had different information because the first paragraph was the explanation of what happened in the book, the second paragraph had your opinion about the fact that Jonas could see color. The last paragraph was about the last information that you might have not included in the first paragraph. You did well on the first blog post but this is MUCH better and I wouldn't change anything about it!!! Nice work, I can see you used your time properly to make this blog post!!!

ONCE AGAIN GREAT JOB!!! :)

The question I chose to answer was:

Why did the Giver say that making choices would be frightening for people?

The community in The Giver, is a very planned out community where everything is supposed to be perfect. So all choices don't need to be made by the citizens and they just need to let the choices be chosen for themselves. It is important they be co-operative because they could get in trouble or face the consiquences of being released. It is difficult to know if a choice could be dangerous because they are so used to having choices being chosen without any effort needed from themselves.

It's always hard to make choices and this goes for me, too. In my community, when you're young, choices are made by you and sometimes help of your parents. Even though we always need to make choices, it's very hard when you don't know what will happen in the future. In the community of the Giver, they always know the plans of the future, but when they have to make a decision by themself it's very different for them.

Making choices has always been a hard thing to do even for thoughs who do it quite often. It can be easy, but knowing if the decision would come back to you in a negitive way is always the hardest part about making choices.

Blog post #1 The GIVER

I chose to respond to this sentence:

1. Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?

I would definitely say no because if my future were to be decided for me then there would be nothing exciting in life. I love to know that something really unexpected can happen at any time and I wouldn't even see it coming. People say that they are afraid of the unknown, but what is there not to know when your whole life is planned out. Life is about making choices and learning from your mistakes and without that, life is BORING!!! Sometimes, I would like to know that if I have a EXTREMELY difficult choice to make then I could let the decision to be chosen for me without me needing to think so much and worrying; however, this is no excuse to let someone plan my life for me. If decisions for my life were made by my mother or father, I wouldn't mind so much because they are responsible of me and they need to make sure I do the right things, so that would be okay. The idea of my life being planned for me would be a big negative thing. I like being able to learn more and that way I know I am capable of making choices and planning my own future.

As a twelve year old what I like to think about is in six years, I will graduate and pick my own career and I can know that I'm not under pressure to chose an education that I'm not interested in. Since I was a young girl, I have always loved children and I used to take care of children at the age of five. I used to think it was normal and when I would get older, i would think the children would be annoying; although, now as an twelve year old, I still love children and decided to become a pediatrician for my profession. My grade for Health class has always been a A+ and it was great to know that someday, this would help me if I wanted to go to medical school. After thinking over this question, "Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?" I knew that if I were to do a job that had nothing to do with what I want, then I would never look forward to my future and I wouldn't enjoy working where, if I could chose my job by myself I would be happy to work.

My future is very important and chosing by myself is how i plan to live it. Having my life planned by someone else than myself is not what I plan on doing and I wont do so anytime soon. I am very glad my life isn't planned for me by another person!!!