Transcript food-memory_the-giver

The Giver, Lois Lowry
 Review Plot
 Focus on Ch. 17 and Ch. 18
 Discuss Rosemary’s character/importance
 Cookies!
 Food Memory in-class writing assignment
 Family Interview assignment
 What is The Giver about?
 Who are the main characters?
 Who is the Giver? What is their responsibility?
 Who is the Receiver? What is their responsibility?
 Lois Lowry imagines a society where the past was
deliberately forgotten, which would allow the
inhabitants to live in a kind of peaceful ignorance.
 The flaws in such a society, she realized, would show
the value of individual and community memory:
although a loss of memory might mean a loss of pain,
it also means a loss of lasting human relationships and
connections with the past.
 What happens?
 Who is Rosemary?
 What is her importance?
 “Failed Receiver”
 Intelligent, eager to learn
 Loved experiencing new things
 Giver started with happy memories
 Rosemary wanted more difficult memories
 Giver did not want to give physical pain, instead what did
her give her?
 Giver gave her loneliness, loss, poverty and fear
 After hard session, kissed Giver’s cheek and left,
applied for “release”, never seen again.
 What does release mean in the book?
 Why use this euphemism? (Euphemism: indirect word
substituted for one considered to be too harsh when
referring to something unpleasant)
 What happens when Rosemary was “released”?
 When “released”, Rosemary’s memories were released
onto the community.
 After community’s unpleasant experience with all of
Rosemary’s released memories, community wanted
nothing to do with remembrance.
 Rosemary is also an herb that strengthens memory. The
rejection of Rosemary in the novel is a double rejection of
memory.
“The Memory Herb”
•Increases mental alertness
and memory
For the Science Lovers:
Compound in Rosemary:
1,8-cineole, may act in the
same way as the drugs
licensed to treat dementia,
causing an increase in a
neurotransmitter called
acetylcholine.
 Been associated with memory enhancement since ancient times.
 Known from the latter part of the Elizabethan Era to the Early
Romantic period as the herb of remembrance.
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In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia says, “There’s rosemary, that’s for
remembrance.” (Hamlet, iv. 5.)
 It has also long been used as a symbol for remembrance during
weddings, war commemorations and funerals in Europe and Australia.
 Mourners in old times would wear it as a buttonhole, burn it as incense
or throw it into graves as a symbol of remembrance for the dead.
 Wait… you’re the Food Corps person, why cookies?!
 Congratulations: you’ve tried sweet potatoes, kale,
Brussels sprouts, apple salads.. etc. You’ve been an
adventurous group and I am proud.
 Cookies, made with simple ingredients, and consumed
every now and then are a great treat.
 Let’s look at some ingredient lists.
 Bleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced
iron, thiamine, mononitrate [Vitamin B1], riboflavin
[Vitamin B2], folic acid), semisweet chocolate chunks
(sugar, chocolate, dextrose, cocoa butter, milk, soy
lecithin), sugar, soybean oil, semisweet chocolate chips
(sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, dextrose, milk, soy
lechithin), partially hyrdogenated cottonseed oil,
baking soda, amomnium phospate, salt, molasses,
high fructose corn syrup, whey, soy lechithin, caramel
color, artificial flavor.
 All-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, butter,
,granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, egg,
chocolate, rosemary
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Ingredients
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1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a baking sheet with a parchment paper.
In a large bowl, sift flour, baking soda, and salt.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract
in large mixer bowl until creamy.
 Add egg, beating well. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
 Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes, until
cookies are golden brown.
 Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
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 Recall and Record one specific Food Memory on sheet
provided
 When finished, on lined paper (Please write name,
date and class period) record what you currently know
about your ancestors …
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Where are they from?
What are their food traditions?
Did they have/do they have a garden?
Knowledge of plant/herbal medicine?
Special skills?
 Volunteers share their Food Memory over Rosemary
Cookies
 What is Foxfire? How were the books compiled?
 In the tradition of Foxfire, please interview one family
member (ideally a grandparent or great-grand parent)
 Two questions from list provided
 Brief summary of what you learned from your
interview
Why Interview?
Why is knowledge/memory
passed down important?
 Why do you think Lois Lowry wrote
The Giver?
 Other thoughts on the novel or your
experience in class today?