The Giver Essay Instructions

Choose a Question to Answer
For essay #1,
• choose one of the questions below.
• State a claim based on your answer to the question.
• Write an essay using at least three specific pieces of textual evidence to support and prove your claim. You must use textual evidence from at least two different sources from the quarter, (Links to an external site.) and one of these two must be The Giver.
Beckham, Ash. “When to Take a Stand — and When to Let It Go.” TED Talks, Ted.com, Sept. 2014.

Galinsky, Adam.“How to Speak Up for Yourself”. TED Talks, TED.com, Sept. 2016.

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York: Bantam Doubleday Bell Books, 1993.
United Nations. “Universal Declaration of Human rights”. United Nations.
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html.
Wiesel, Elie. “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech.” Nobelprize.org. Dec. 1986.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-acceptance_en.html.
• Yousafzai, Malala. “United Nations Youth Assembly Speech.” July 2013. https://www.malala.org/newsroom/archive/malala-un-speech

• Be sure to clearly explain how your evidence proves your claim. There are no “right” or “wrong” claims, but you must be able to prove your claim using evidence from the texts.
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Essay Topic: Is The Giver’s community a safe place to live? Why or why not?