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**Task One**
//For your first literature circles you will create a general overview of your novel. On this home page please create the following.// //Remember be creative, use color, images and sound!//

1. Copy your setting information from your posters you made in class. 2. Character List- make sure to list each main character and include a brief description and quote from the character

Setting:

Time:

- After Rebellion

Place :

- Panem

- what used to be the Appalachian Mts.

Mood/Environment:

- Gap between rich and poor[Districts and Capitol]

- Starvation

- Lack of food

- evil government

- technology only available in Capitol

- fear of being chosen for reaping

What is the future like:

- In the Capitol, technology is available

- medicines are available

- watch the Games for entertainment

- In the districts, only few medicines are available

- inequality between Districts [only 1,2, and 4 are favored by the Capitol

- starvation is common

- black market [The Hob]

Connection to Feed:

- Gap between rich and poor

- Following every trend [Capitol people]

- Trying to overthrow the government

**Discussion Prompt 1**
1. The movie Hunger Games just came out. Suzanne Collins, the author, wrote the screenplay. Read what she says about where the idea came for the book. "It's hard to choose one element that inspired // The Hunger Games // ," says Suzanne Collins. "Probably the first seeds were planted when, as an eight-year-old with a mythology obsession, I read the story of Theseus. The myth told how in punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to Crete where they were thrown in the Labyrinth and devoured by the monstrous Minotaur. Even as a third grader, I could appreciate the ruthlessness of this message. ‘Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.' Other early influences would have to include watching too many gladiator movies which dramatized the Romans' flair for turning executions into popular entertainment, my military specialist dad who took us to battlefields for family vacations, and touring with a sword fighting company in high school. But it wasn't until the much more recent experience of channel surfing between reality TV programming and actual war coverage that the story for this series came to me."

How does this relate to what we have studied in class so far? It relates to Feed because there are people who have the technology, and the ones who do not. The gap between the rich and the poor is shown in both the novels. Also, it shows how technology can control people. In Feed, the corporations control people with the Feed, and in the Hunger Games, the gamemakers change the setting and control people with technology.

Are there other elements of the book that could be based on events in history? The book refers to the US and the Rockies, where the Capitol is located. It also mentions coal mining in the western part of the US.

2. **As a group**: Talk about the following. Come to an agreement about your opinion of the statements. Write "agree" or "disagree" in the //Before Reading// boxes. You must be able to support your opinions.


 * Before Reading ||  After Reading  ||  Statements: 1-5  ||
 * Agree ||  Disagree  ||  Injustices are a matter of opinion.  ||
 * Agree ||  Agree  ||  Loyalty is the most important part of a relationship between family or friends.  ||
 * Agree ||  Disagree  ||  Success often has as much to do with luck as with our choices, actions, or abilities.  ||
 * Agree ||  Disagree  ||  When in danger, it is best to play it safe rather than take a risk.  ||
 * Disagree ||  Agree  ||  In a life-or-death situation, almost any action is forgivable.  ||

1)Before reading Hunger Games, injustice was just an opinion that someone had about something but after reading it, seeing how different the Capitol is from the Districts and how the tributes were sent to the Games it was easy to tell how the injustice wasn’t just an opinion.

2) Loyalty is the best policy between friends and family because you will always know you can count on them and especially after reading Hunger Games the friendship between Peeta and Katniss grew because the first thing she wanted to do was kill him but during the Games she learns that she can trust Peeta and they can count on each other

3) After reading the book, we know that Katniss wins because of her skills but for the most part it’s because the GameMakers altered the Game in such a way the she could win.

4) After reading the book, we saw how Katniss took the risk of blowing up the food from the Careers pile and that decision led us to disagree with the fact that playing it safe isn’t the right choice when in danger.

5)Before reading this book, I haven’t really read about life-or-death situations, but after seeing what Katniss had to go through in the Games it seemed to me that it was important to forgive about everything because you wouldn’t have another chance to forgive the person again.

3. **As an individual**-Write a reflection individually under Discussion Post 1. Pay attention to conventions, organization, and ideas and content.THEN: Read and comment on your other group's posts. // Write a response as to your choices for statements above. Defend your reasons. What connection do you see with the reasons why Collins wrote Hunger Games and what we have studied this year? // Source: http://montycores.wikispaces.com/Hunger+Games

Discussion Prompts 2
1. What are the qualities that Katniss has that make her uniquely qualified for the Games?

2. Describe the relationships of Katniss with Gale, with Prim, with her mother. Why does she say about Peeta, "I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people." How do you think her early encounter with Peeta might affect their relationship after they are chosen as tributes?

3. How will Peeta's approach contrast with Katniss's as they try to survive? Which approach do you think is best. Why?

4. On p. 83, Peeta and Katniss speculate about why the Capitol boy and girl might have run away. They don't have an answer. From what you know, give your own opinion about the runaways.

5. When Peeta declares his love for Katniss in the interview, does he really mean it or did Haymitch create the "star-crossed lovers" story? What does Haymitch mean when he says, "It's all a big show. It's all how you're perceived." Why do they need to impress sponsors and what are those sponsors looking for when they are watching the Games?

6. Before the Games start, Peeta tells Katniss, " . . . I want to die as myself . . . I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not." What does this tell you about Peeta? How do you think it is possible to stay true to himself during the Games?

Vocab: Chapter 4: tubers cornucopia Chapter 6: **exhilarating**, Chapter 7: **deluged**, debut Chapter 8: **irredeemably**, **unattainably** Chapter 9: **ludicrous, prestigious** Chapter 10: **inferior** Chapter 11: **deteriorate** Chapter 12: **arrogant**, **imprudent** Chapter 13: circuitous, **abate**, **unscathed** Chapter 14: **mayhem**, **befuddled** **putrid** Chapter 15: **noxious** prestigious Chapter 16: **initially, mulling** Chapter 17: **proximity, i**nvigorating Chapter 18: impotence, **precedes** Chapter 19: dissipates **scrupulously** Chapter 20: ratcheting, **stalemate** Chapter 21: **irreparable** Chapter 22: **gingerly** **irreverent**, Chapter 23: **noncommittal, emaciated** Chapter 24: **complement, dissonant** Chapter 25: **inadvertently, dwindling** Chapter 26: **indeterminate, benign** Chapter 27: **periodically**

Vocabulary exhilarating - to enliven; invigorate; stimulate deluged - anything that overwhelms like a flood irredeemably - irremediable; irreparable; hopeless. unattainably - unableto reach, achieve, or accomplish ludicrous - causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous prestigious - indicating reputation or influence arising from success or achievement inferior - less important, valuable, or worthy deteriorate - to make or become worse or inferior in character, quality,value, etc. arrogant - showingoffensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride. imprudent - lacking discretion; incautious; rash. abate - to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc. unscathed - unharmed; uninjured mayhem - random or deliberate violence or damage befuddled - to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments putrid - in a state of foul decay or decomposition noxious - harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being initially - of, pertaining to, or occurring at the beginning; first mulling - to think about carefully; consider proximity - nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation. precedes - to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time scrupulously - punctiliously or minutely careful, precise, or exact stalemate - any position or situation in which no action can be taken or progress made irreparable - incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good gingerly - with great care or caution; warily. irreverent - deficient in respect noncommittal - not committing oneself to a particular view or course emaciated - to be marked with abnormal thinness caused by lack of nutrition or by disease complement - something that completes or makes perfect dissonant - disagreeing or harsh in sound inadvertently - unintentional dwindling - to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away indeterminate - nothaving defined limits benign - showing or expressing of gentleness and kindness periodically - occurring or appearing at regular intervals

Themes


 * What you love most is the most important. This is because Katniss loves Prim very much and will do anything for her like volunteering as a tribute to the Hunger Games. Prim is the only reason Katniss is alive.
 * Sometimes there are things that we cannot control. Katniss and Peeta won the Games, but the entire Games was controlled by the Gamemakers. In order to survive, they had to put up with the fact that no matter how hard they tried to survive, they will be dead if they displeased the Capitol.
 * Don’t judge a book by its cover because in the book, when Katniss first saw Rue she thought she wouldn’t be able to survive because she was so young.