Meredith O'Neill's Excellence Academy lessons inspire and motivate students to develop the mindsets, habits, and behaviors that make excellent people excellent. The Excellence Academy library is comprised of audio files with coordinating writing prompts which are designed to help students reflect on themselves, their dreams, and the paths that will lead them there. The Excellence Academy lessons will be great additions to your SEL resource collections. Visit Hello-Friday.com to download the lessons.

This audio and writing lesson will compel students to think of their future selves. Through a series of journal prompts, students will connect their future-selves to their today-selves and see how their decisions have lasting impact. By the end of this podcast, students will see that each decision has an impact, and they will be inspired to choose better ones. This audio and writing lesson is a great addition to your SEL curriculum!

Download the Positive Learning Behaviors writing prompts PPT here or here.

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Meredith O'Neill's Excellence Academy lessons inspire and motivate students to develop the mindsets, habits, and behaviors that make excellent people excellent. The Excellence Academy library is comprised of audio files with coordinating writing prompts which are designed to help students reflect on themselves, their dreams, and the paths that will lead them there. The Excellence Academy lessons will be great additions to your SEL resource collections. Visit Hello-Friday.com to download the lessons.

This audio and writing lesson will motivate students to achieve excellence through positive learning behaviors.  The audio identifies positive learning behaviors, lists the reasons they are necessary, explains how they will lead to excellence in life, and asks students to reflect on probing questions.  This audio and writing lesson is a great addition to your SEL curriculum!

Download the Positive Learning Behaviors writing prompts PPT here.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. Click the Like button, leave or comment, or email hihellofriday@icloud.com. You can also follow Meredith here:

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Meredith O'Neill is a high-school English teacher and top-rated seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. She creates and sells educational products for teachers and students. She is proud to release her podcast series on Lois Lowry's famous YA novel, The Giver. The podcasts in this series are designed to assist students' deep understanding of the novel. Teachers are encouraged to use these audio synopses in class and post them to their online classrooms for easy access.

This Chapters 22-23 synopsis covers the end of the novel. We cover Jonas's starvation, his desperate attempt to survive and save the baby, Gabriel. We look at Jonas's traversing the snowy hill, finding the sled, and discovering Elsewhere in the distance. With the novel's end, several questions come to light. We discuss those questions along with the novel's themes and symbols. I end the podcast by reiterating Lowry's inspiration for the novel and mentioning the three other novels in The Giver Quartet.

These chapter synopses coordinate with Meredith O'Neill's The Giver by Lois Lowry Giant Unit Bundle which is for sale ⁠on TPT⁠.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. You can email hihellofriday@icloud.com and follow Meredith here:

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• ⁠Hello-Friday⁠
• ⁠Teachers Pay Teachers⁠

At the time of this posting, Meredith O'Neill has posted audio synopses for two other series, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Click ⁠here⁠ to check them out!

Thank you!

Meredith O'Neill is a high-school English teacher and top-rated seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. She creates and sells educational products for teachers and students. She is proud to release her podcast series on Lois Lowry's famous YA novel, The Giver. The podcasts in this series are designed to assist students' deep understanding of the novel. Teachers are encouraged to use these audio synopses in class and post them to their online classrooms for easy access.

This Chapters 20-21 synopsis covers Jonas's escape plan and the reason for his deviation from the plan.

These chapter synopses coordinate with Meredith O'Neill's The Giver by Lois Lowry Giant Unit Bundle which is for sale ⁠on TPT⁠.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. You can email hihellofriday@icloud.com and follow Meredith here:

• ⁠Instagram⁠
• ⁠Hello-Friday⁠
• ⁠Teachers Pay Teachers⁠

At the time of this posting, Meredith O'Neill has posted audio synopses for two other series, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Click ⁠here⁠ to check them out!

Thank you!

Meredith O'Neill is a high-school English teacher and top-rated seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. She creates and sells educational products for teachers and students. She is proud to release her podcast series on Lois Lowry's famous YA novel, The Giver. The podcasts in this series are designed to assist students' deep understanding of the novel. Teachers are encouraged to use these audio synopses in class and post them to their online classrooms for easy access.

This Chapters 18-19 synopsis covers the former Receiver, Rosemary, The Giver's relationship with her, and her release. We also cover euphemisms, Jonas's discovery that release is actually death, and his disgust at realizing that his father performs ritualized murder as "Nurturer." We have reached a climax in the novel, and will look ahead at where the novel is going.

These synopses coordinate with Meredith O'Neill's The Giver by Lois Lowry Giant Unit Bundle which is for sale ⁠on TPT⁠.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. You can email hihellofriday@icloud.com and follow Meredith here:

• ⁠Instagram⁠
• ⁠Hello-Friday⁠
• ⁠Teachers Pay Teachers⁠

At the time of this posting, Meredith O'Neill has posted audio synopses for two other series, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Click ⁠here⁠ to check them out!

Thank you!

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Meredith O'Neill is a high-school English teacher and top-rated seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. She creates and sells educational products for teachers and students. She is proud to release her podcast series on Lois Lowry's famous YA novel, The Giver. The podcasts in this series are designed to assist students' deep understanding of the novel. Teachers are encouraged to use these audio synopses in class and post them to their online classrooms for easy access.

This Chapters 17 synopsis covers Jonas's new depth of feelings as a result of holding memories, including his upset over the "war" game and his growing isolation. We also cover the meaning of "Release" and look at important passages from the chapter.

These synopses coordinate with Meredith O'Neill's The Giver by Lois Lowry Giant Unit Bundle which is for sale ⁠on TPT⁠.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. You can email hihellofriday@icloud.com and follow Meredith here:

• ⁠Instagram⁠
• ⁠Hello-Friday⁠
• ⁠Teachers Pay Teachers⁠

At the time of this posting, Meredith O'Neill has posted audio synopses for two other series, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Click ⁠here⁠ to check them out!

Thank you!

Meredith O'Neill is a high-school English teacher and top-rated seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. She creates and sells educational products for teachers and students. She is proud to release her podcast series on Lois Lowry's famous YA novel, The Giver. The podcasts in this series are designed to assist students' deep understanding of the novel. Teachers are encouraged to use these audio synopses in class and post them to their online classrooms for easy access.

This Chapters 14-16 synopsis covers the themes of isolation and loss of innocence, Jonas and The Giver's unfair burden, and Jonas's acquisition of the terrible memories of pain and war.

These synopses coordinate with Meredith O'Neill's The Giver by Lois Lowry Giant Unit Bundle which is for sale ⁠on TPT⁠.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. You can email hihellofriday@icloud.com and follow Meredith here:

• ⁠Instagram⁠
• ⁠Hello-Friday⁠
• ⁠Teachers Pay Teachers⁠

At the time of this posting, Meredith O'Neill has posted audio synopses for two other series, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Click ⁠here⁠ to check them out!

Thank you!

Meredith O'Neill is a high-school English teacher and top-rated seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. She creates and sells educational products for teachers and students. She is proud to release her podcast series on Lois Lowry's famous YA novel, The Giver. The podcasts in this series are designed to assist students' deep understanding of the novel. Teachers are encouraged to use these audio synopses in class and post them to their online classrooms for easy access.

This Chapters 13 synopsis covers Jonas's discoveries about color, choice, and the meaning of life.

These synopses coordinate with Meredith O'Neill's The Giver by Lois Lowry Giant Unit Bundle which is for sale ⁠on TPT⁠.

If you find this series helpful, Meredith O'Neill would love to read your comments and connect with you. You can email hihellofriday@icloud.com and follow Meredith here:

• ⁠Instagram⁠
• ⁠Hello-Friday⁠
• ⁠Teachers Pay Teachers⁠

At the time of this posting, Meredith O'Neill has posted audio synopses for two other series, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Click ⁠here⁠ to check them out!

Thank you!