Jonas faced the adversity of seeing things that others could not see and persevered by practicing with the Giver and learning what to do. Zebra's adversity was breaking his arm after running too fast down a hill and taking up art lessons to persevere with his injury. Victor's adversity in 7th grade was impressing Teresa, the girl he liked, by speaking Spanish in front of the class, but he persevered by mumbling and sitting down when the teacher told him to.

1. Performance Task
Jayda Goffigan
11-15-12

2. Jonas’s Adversity
Jonas’s adversity was facing something
that he never would of thought that
happened. That was seeing things in
different ways nobody else could see.

3. The Perseverance of Jonas
Jonas persevered through it by becoming
better at it each day. Also practiced with
the giver and he was starting to know what
to do.

4. Zebra’s Adversity
Zebra was a boy who loved running. One
day he was at the top of a hill. So he
decided he would run down, but he was
running so fast that he couldn’t stop
himself. So he ran in to a car and broke
his arm.

5. Zebra’s Perseverance
Zebra persevered with a broken arm by
taking art lessons. Also becoming
interested in art. The reason why is
because he saw a man with no arm who
had it worst than him.

6. 7 Grade
th
In the story “7th grade”, Victors adversity was to
there is a boy named impress Teresa to get her
Victor who likes a girl to like him.
named Teresa. They
have the class together.
Victor likes Teresa so
much he tries to impress
her saying something in
Spanish. So he has to
say something in Spanish
in front of the whole
class.

7. Victor’s Perseverance
Victor persevered through not speaking
Spanish in front of Teresa and the whole
class by mumbling and the teacher told
him to sit down.

8. My Similarities
• I can relate to Zebra • I can relate to Victor
because I love to because there was
tumble and cheer. But somebody at school
I couldn’t because I that I really liked and
had a neck spasm wanted him to like
and I couldn’t cheer me. So I tried to
or tumble for a while, impress him.
according to the
doctor.

9. Bibliography
• Google Images
• McDougal Literature Book
• The story “Zebra”
• The story “7th Grade”