The document contains summaries of 5 different passages: 1) The first passage summarizes the book "The Giver" and introduces the main character Jonas, who lives in a strictly controlled future society without freedom. 2) The second passage summarizes a short story collection focusing on family relationships and the universal themes of loss, grief, hope and relief. 3) The third passage provides a brief biography of Martin Luther King Jr., discussing his education and family life. 4) The fourth passage gives a short summary of a story about a boy named Victor who has a crush on a girl in his seventh grade class. 5) The fifth passage summarizes the events of the Titanic disaster

1. Jada White
October 28,2012
Ela Project

2. The Giver: Jonas
 Jonas is a character from the book The
Giver. Meet Jonas, an eleven-year-old
boy who lives in a rigidly controlled
society some time in the future. In his
"community," there is no
suffering, hunger, war, and, as you will
soon see, no color, sex, music, or love.
Everything is controlled by "the Elders,"
right down to who you will marry, who
you receive as children, and what you
will be "assigned" as a job. Individual
identity has gone the way of cassette
tapes, and everyone is essentially just
like everyone else. It seems that no one
has really left the area, except to visit
other neighboring communities. To get
"released" is a big deal. It only happens
to sick infants or really old people, or to
people who break the rules.
In short…this world is a lame place to
hang out.

3. The Giver : Jonas

4. Zebra
 Zebra' begins to regain use of his
crushed hand and leg creating art
assigned by temporary teacher;
'Isabel' finds unexpected solace in
the company of her new stepsister.
In the collection's haunting
centerpiece, 'Nava' uses her father's
experiences in war, and his
connection with a Navajo healer, to
fend off a frighteningly persistent
drug dealer. The families
represented are all middle-class or
upper-middle-class, but the
relationships, the feelings of
loss, grief, regret, hope, and relief
are universal; readers sensitive to
nuances of language and situation
will be totally absorbed by these
profound character studies

5. Martin Luther King Jr.
 Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April
4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later
had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather
began the family's long tenure as pastors of the
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914
to 1931; his father has served from then until the
present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther
acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated
public schools in Georgia, graduating from high
school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A.
degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a
distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which
both his father and grandfather had graduated. After
three years of theological study at Crozer Theological
Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected
president of a predominantly white senior class, he
was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at
Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston
University, completing his residence for the doctorate
in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he
met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of
uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two
sons and two daughters were born into the family

6. Seventh Grade
 Victor was a boy in the
seventh grade who had a
crush on this girl named
Teresa, a girl he had liked
since they were in catechism
classes at Saint Theresa’s ,was
taking French, too. With any
luck they would be in the
same class. Teresa is going to
be my girl this year, he
promised himself as he left
the gym full of students in
their new fall clothes. She was
cute. And good in
math, too, Victor thought as
he walked down

7. The Titantic
 On that fateful night of April 14, 1912
there were 2,235 souls crowded
aboard the R.M.S. Titanic. There
was no wind to speak of. The
frigid, dark sea was calm, like a plate
glass mirror beneath the star-
spangled heavens. It was an hour
before midnight on a
starry, moonless night. While the
band played on beneath the decks
in the first class lounge, and while
the night watch paced the Bridge
high above, the greatest maritime
tragedy in the history of
sailing, stealthily, silently awaited
them in the ice-strewn midnight
waters of the North Atlantic

8. Reflections
 These characters and stories I have wrote have
overcome some major adversities. In the giver Jonas
learned to become wiser to take on the role of the
Reciever. As he learned to become the reciever he went
over major obstacles. In the story The Zebra he just
wanted to run for the rest of his life when this random
man entered his life and tought him how to do art. In
the M.L.K story he got the chance to meet Maya
Angelou and got to know a lot about her. In the story
Seventh grade he learned to not be so shy and speak
his mind.

9. Information from www.google.com and that’s it. Hope you had
a great, fun, and fantastic time!!!!!!!!!
Jada White