Divergent Theme of Identity. Teengagement® Practitioner Network (TPN) If you’re delving into the Teengagement® Unit of Study Divergent in the coming days and weeks, either as a companion piece to the novel Divergent or alone, the following are four engaging resources that you might choose to use in your classroom to hook your students and extend their knowledge.
Aptitude Test and Choosing Ceremony Source: Choosing a faction in Divergent can be compared to choosing a friend group in school. Discuss teen social circles and how people join and fit in, comparing them with the factions in Divergent. Use the aptitude tests online to stage your own version of the Choosing ceremony. Students read the article (or novel) to learn about the Divergent factions.Students take an aptitude test.
Aptitude Tests may be found at: Divergent Aptitude Test and Divergent Faction Flowchart Faction Anthems Source: pinterest.com/pin/400890804302292619/ Ask students: if you could assign the factions theme songs, or “anthems,” what songs would you choose and why? Really feeling creative? Divergent: Film Discussion - The Midnight Garden. Did you catch Divergent in theaters this weekend?
Kate and Wendy saw it opening day, and after the disaster that was Vampire Academy, we were very excited that we both ended up enjoying this one! Quick background: Wendy really liked the first book, though Kate was more middling about it. (Here’s Wendy’s Divergent review if you’re curious.) We both also chose not to refresh our memories with a reread to see how the film held up if we weren’t clear on as many details. Spoilers abound for book and film, so read on at your own risk! Wendy: Going into all such films, I have two questions: how good is this as an adaptation? I’m just going to say it: I think the Divergent film adaptation was better than both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Divergent Questions. Divergent%20DG.pdf. Divergent Characters. The 16-year-old protagonist of the novel.
Beatrice was born and raised in the Abnegation faction, but chooses Dauntless because she feels it is who she truly is. However, her aptitude test was inconclusive, and she is "Divergent" - a fate that is mysterious but also dangerous. Once in Dauntless, she begins again under a new name - Tris. Tris is strong-willed, courageous, and reluctant to show weakness, particularly during her initiation into Dauntless. While she thrives in her new faction, she still feels strong ties to the family she left behind. The initiation instructor for the Dauntless transfer initiates, including Tris, who eventually becomes her primary love interest. Tris’s brother. Tris and Caleb’s mother. Tris and Caleb’s father, husband of Natalie Prior. The Priors’ neighbor in Abnegation. Sister of Robert Black. The abusive father of Tobias Eaton and a member of the Abnegation city council along with Andrew Prior. Divergent Themes. In Divergent, your choice of faction defines you more than anything else does.
Tris was faced with two options: remain with her family in the faction in which she grew up, Abnegation, or transfer to another faction and start anew. Though her aptitude test is inconclusive - she could be a match to Abnegation, Erudite, or Dauntless - she chooses Dauntless because she feels it will allow her to discover her true self. But even this does not truly fit, and Tris spends the entire novel struggling to come to terms with the fact that because of her Divergence, none of the factions will ever truly define her the way they do for others.
She develops her identity through her relationships with her friends and family and the difficult choices she is forced to make time and time again when faced with the struggles of both initiation and the impending war in her society. The idea of fear and the process of overcoming it was central to Veronica Roth's motivation behind Divergent.