Title: The Hunger Games Introduction Date: Monday 1 st , July 2013

1. Title: The Hunger Games Introduction Date: Monday 1st, July 2013 L/O:To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. Starter: If you could create your ideal world (utopia), what would it have in it? Make a list of 5 things. Dystopia: An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from oppression, or terror.

2. Title: The Hunger Games Introduction Date: Monday 16th April 2012 L/O:To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. Task: Whole Class reading of chapter 1 Dystopia: An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from oppression, or terror.

3. Title: Chapter One Characters Date: 2nd July 2013 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. • Starter: • From what we’ve read so far, list examples that this book is a dystopian novel. • i.e. Katniss and her family do not have a lot of food. Dystopia: An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from oppression, or terror.

4. Title: Chapter One Characters Date: 17thApril 2012 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. Primrose:

5. Title: Chapter One Characters Date: 3rd July 2013 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. Katniss:

6. Title: Chapter One Characters Date: 3rd July 2013 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. The mother:

7. Title: Chapter One Characters Date: 3rd July 2013 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. Gale:

8. What is the reason for the Hunger Games? • What does District 12 produce? • What is a tessera? Explain how this puts people in increased danger. • What does Katniss do to support her family since the death of her father? • Who is the first person chosen to go to the Hunger Games?

9. How did the Hunger Games begin? The first event that contributed to the Hunger Games was…. Second…. Finally, the Hunger Games were created to…

10. Title: Reaping Date: L/O:To role play ideas or themes Starter: Fill out reaping sheet Task: Reaping role play/simulation Paired reading

11. Title: Chapter 2:The Tributes Date: 5th July 2013 L/O:To respond to textual themes • Starter: Answer these questions • What is the kindest thing someone has ever done for you? How did you feel? • Scientists in The Capitol have been experimenting with animals. They have been combining animal DNA to make new species. What do you think about this? Why? Extension: What elements of our society are ‘dystopian’ in nature? What themes do you notice so far in the text?

12. Title: Chapter 2:The Tributes Date: 5th July 2013 L/O: To respond to textual themes Task: Reading of chapter 2. Wisp Protocol Dissent Warble Straggling Vaguely What do dandelions symbolise to Katniss?

13. Sorting exercise • Katniss is stunned. Likewise, the crowd is displeased to have a twelve-year-old girl chosen as the tribute. • Prim approaches the stage, but as she does, Katniss darts in front of her and volunteers to take her sister's place. Volunteers are allowed, but they don't usually come forward The people of District 12 do not clap; instead, they are silent. They then give Katniss the three fingered salute of the district, a gesture rarely used, meaning thanks, admiration, and good-bye to a loved one. • Next up is the selection of the boy tribute, which turns out to be Peeta Mellark. • Katniss is shocked, though doesn't exactly explain why. Though he has two older brothers, no one volunteers for Peeta. • Flashback: Katniss then relates the story of her only encounter with Peeta. It was after her father died, when her mother was suffering from depression. Katniss was – as she is now – the sole bread winner, but was not old enough yet for the tesserae. • The family was starving – a not uncommon fate in District 12. • One evening Katniss is in the Hob to trade some baby clothes for food. Unsuccessful, she is wandering behind the shops when she smells the bread of the bakers'. Delicious.

14. Katniss lifts the trash can lid to scavenge, when the baker's wife appears out of nowhere to scream at her and shoo her away. She sees a little blond boy peering at her from behind his mother. • Hiding behind the pig pen, Katniss, sick and weak, slumps down defeated. Soon, though, the blond boy appears with two loaves of burned bread. Katniss notices a red welt on his face, probably from his mother. He throws a loaf of bread in her direction and returns inside. • Katniss runs home with the bread and eats the loaf with her family. • The next morning she realizes that the boy probably burned the loaves on purposes – so he could give them to her. • That day at school the boy does not acknowledge Katniss. She does, though, see in the schoolyard a dandelion and remembers her time in the woods with her father – and that there she can find food for her family. • End of flashback. Katniss tells us that Peeta has always reminded her of hope, and that she is thankful for what he did – but how can she thank him now that he is her enemy?

15. Title: Chapter 3:The Mockingjay Date: 5th July 2013 L/O:ALL pupils will be able select relevant quotations from the text. MOST pupils will be able to evaluate the writer’s use of symbolism. SOME pupils will be able to comment on the different layers of meaning in the text. L/O: Starter: Sorting exercise Task: Read aloud Listening questions to think about: What emotions is Katniss feeling on the journey? Why does she relate the story of the Mockingjay? What does it represent? How does she feel about Effie? About the luxury she is in compared to the poverty of the Seam?

16. Title: Chapter 3:The Mockingjay Date: 5th July 2013 L/O:ALL pupils will be able select relevant quotations from the text. MOST pupils will be able to evaluate the writer’s use of symbolism. SOME pupils will be able to comment on the different layers of meaning in the text. L/O: Task: Look at the description of the Mockingjay on pages 51 and 52. In pairs, in your exercise books, draw an image of the Mockingjay bird. Label the bird using direct quotes from the book to explain your image (7 minutes). In groups, explain your images to the other members. (5 minutes) Extension activity: Discuss the following question: what does the Mockingjay represent to Katniss?

17. Title: Chapter 3:The Mockingjay Date: 5th July 2013 L/O:ALL pupils will be able select relevant quotations from the text. MOST pupils will be able to evaluate the writer’s use of symbolism. SOME pupils will be able to comment on the different layers of meaning in the text. TASK: • Answer the following question using a P.E.E. paragraph: Why might the Mockingjay symbol of rebellion? Use evidence from the text to support your point. Explain how the quote supports your point (8 minutes).

18. Silent Reading– you must finish chapter 4. We will start chapter 5 as a class on Monday

20. Title: Poverty vs. WealthL/O:ALL pupils will be able to identify the key theme of poverty versus wealth in the text. MOST pupils will be able to comment on the writer has used the theme of poverty versus wealth in the text. SOME pupils will be able to evaluate the writer’s use of the theme of poverty versus wealth in the novel. STARTER: Examine the extract. Fill the following table focusing on how food is represented. Compare it to how food is described in District 12 Ext: What do you notice about the information you have gathered?

21. Extract: He presses a button on the side of the table. The top splits and from below rises a second tabletop that holds our lunch. Chicken and chunks of oranges cooked in a creamy sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green peas and onions, rolls shaped like flowers, and for dessert, a pudding the colour of honey. I try to imagine assembling this meal myself back home. Chickens are too expensive, but I could make do with a wild turkey. I’d need to shoot a second turkey to trade for an orange. Goat’s milk would have to substitute for cream. We can grow peas in the garden. I’d have to get wild onions from the woods. I don’t recognise the grain; our own tesserae ration cooks down to an unattractive brown mush. Fancy rolls would mean another trade with the baker, perhaps for two or three squirrels. As for the pudding, I can’t even guess what’s in it. Days of hunting and gathering for one meal and even then it would be a poor substitute for the Capitol version.

22. Title: Poverty vs. WealthL/O:ALL pupils will be able to identify the key theme of poverty versus wealth in the text. MOST pupils will be able to comment on the writer has used the theme of poverty versus wealth in the text. SOME pupils will be able to evaluate the writer’s use of the theme of poverty versus wealth in the novel. Task: Write a Point/Evidence/Explain paragraph comparing and contrasting the food in the Capitol to the Seam. Example sentences are below: Point: i.e. Clearly, the contrast between the Capitol and the Seam is obvious in the food available to them. The novel ‘The Hunger Games’ has a divide between the rich and the poor. One way this is demonstrated is… Evidence: (QUOTATION) Katniss compares her experience of food to that in the Seam by… The word ‘_______’ … Explanation: (explain what the quotation shows about the food) This quotation shows that…

23. Title: Poverty vs. WealthL/O:ALL pupils will be able to identify the key theme of poverty versus wealth in the text. MOST pupils will be able to comment on the writer has used the theme of poverty versus wealth in the text. SOME pupils will be able to evaluate the writer’s use of the theme of poverty versus wealth in the novel.

24. Title: Training for the GamesL/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing.

25. Title: Peeta and KatnissDate: 8th July 2013L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing.

26. How do Peeta and Katniss feel about each other? Fill in the chart with quotations as evidence.

27. How do Peeta and Katniss feel about each other? Fill in the chart with quotations as evidence.

28. Title: Peeta and KatnissDate: 11th July 2013L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing.

29. Title: Caesar FlickermanDate: 12th July 2013L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon the text as a piece of dystopian writing. ALLEGORY: : a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for truths about human life. EXTENDED METAPHOR: A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. 1. How does Haymitch and Cinna ask Katniss to behave? 2. What do we discover about Peeta during his interview? 3. How does Katniss react to Peeta’s news?

30. Title: Reality TVDate: 15th July 2013L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon allegory and how reality tv plays a part in the novel. Guided class discussion: do you watch any of these shows regularly? Which are your favourites and why? Reality TV shows Do you know where the term “Big Brother” originally comes from? It comes from one of the most famous dystopian novels, George Orwell’s 1984. In that novel, Big Brother is the government, which is “always watching you.” This was the inspiration for the reality TV show Big Brother. [Interesting that a dystopian novel inspired current reality TV and current reality TV then inspired the dystopian novel The Hunger Games.]

31. Title: Caesar FlickermanDate: 15th July 2013 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon allegory and how reality tv plays a part in the novel.

32. Title: Rue Date: 22nd July 2013L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon Rue as an important character in the Hunger Games

33. Title: Rue Date: 22nd July 2013 L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon Rue as an important character in the Hunger Games Discussion: How might their relationship be seen as threatening by the Capitol? What does the relationship mean to Katniss? To Rue?

34. Title: Rue Date: 26th July 2013L/O: To understand, respond and reflect upon Rue as an important character in the Hunger Games Write a P.E.E. paragraph about Rue’s character and her relationship to Katniss as discussed in class. Use quotations to back up your points. Sentence Starters: In the novel The Hunger Games Rue is portrayed as… Katniss and Rue have a unique relationship in the novel, as… Rue is a significant character because… Extension: Katniss and Rue’s relationship can be seen as rebellious by the Capitol because…

35. Chapter 17 1. What happens to Katniss in the explosion? 2. Why does Katniss leave the rendezvous point? 3. What happens to Rue? Chapter 18 1. What does Katniss do for Rue? 2. Who sponsors a gift for her? What is it? 3. How does Katniss' attitude change after Rue's death? 4. What rule change do the Gamemakers announce?