During our first session, we explored the Giver's role of imparting all of society's past history and memories to Jonas. We discussed why this dystopian society has elected to erase the concept of history and why a knowledge of history/memories is indispensable to the acquisition of wisdom. In this regard we defined "wisdom". During our second session,we continued to work on writing the literary essay. I distributed a prompt that included directions for forming a topic sentence and for structuring the essay. We spent time carefully studying the prompt and instructions after which Atticus drafted an essay outline and an introductory paragraph .