1) The Hunger Games Chapter Questions Google Docs Files- 8 Packages

➡️ Use these structured and chunked chapter questions and activities to help guide students' learning and understanding of the novel The Hunger Games.

The questions are broken down into 8 packages, each with 3-5 chapters covered within each packet. The Google Docs files are editable so if teachers want to adjust the files they can. The questions include reading comprehension, creative and thought-provoking inquiry, literary concepts such as the elements of story (plot, character, traits, setting, etc.) monomyth, Archetypal and Marxist Criticism. Providing students with a mix of big ideas to connect to the text helps give the story much more meaning, and and facilitates making connections in today's world as well as in other texts in the future!

2) The Hunger Games Katniss Coat of Arms Google Slides Activity

➡️ Students will create a Coat of Arms for Katniss, using the people who she is connected to back in District 12 to help explain who she will eventually become during her time in The Hunger Games.

Teachers can choose to connect this task to The Monomyth by making the connection to 'The Ordinary World" by introducing this task early on. They can also use it to help prompt discussion around characterization, character traits and how they are formed through experiences and relationships that the character has in the text.

Assessment tool is included and the task itself is already. built into a template that students can directly insert their text and images into to support varying learning needs. This task takes the average grade 9 student approximately 3 days to complete if paired with reading and evaluating the text during class time.

3) Google Classroom : The Hunger Games Movie Guide based on Elements of Story

➡️ Use this very simple, editable and straight forward movie guide to have students provide an overview of their understanding of the film based on the elements of story. Resource is broken down into the following categories:

Task #1 Plot AND/OR Hero's Journey

Teacher can leave both and provide choice for students OR delete one of the options/

Students will either fill in a graphic organizer based on 8 stages of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey OR fill in a graphic organizer for a plot line (6 stages including a trigger incident).

Task #2 Character

There are three graphic organizers for three different characters of the students' choice that asks them to use the four methods of identifying characterization (what the character says, what they do, what they think, what others think about them).

Task #3 Conflict

Conflict is broken down into three sections (beginning, middle and end of the movie) and students are to fill in a graphic organizer identifying any (or all) of the conflicts they can think of that fall into the categories of conflict. Some of these include: person vs. person; person vs. self; person vs. supernatural etc. This is a good way to differentiate instruction. Students can fill int he entire chart or only ask them to fill in one per section if that is all they can do. They are also asked to fill in the key conflict for the story.

Task #4 Setting

A mix of charts and multiple choice questions helps students come up with answers for this activity without overwhelming them with a lot of work, especially since the beginning three tasks can be more time consuming.

Task #5 Point of View

Similar to Setting, this task is a mix of charts and multiple choice questions to help students get an idea of students' understanding of the story as well as reinforcing the importance of point of view, without giving them a lot of work to do.

Task #6 Theme

The students are provided with theme topics and students are to try and develop a theme statement based on the topics.

Rubric included based on planning skills, knowledge and understanding and transfer of knowledge and skills to a new text.

4) The Hunger Games: What is a MOTIF? Video Mini-Lesson and Paragraph Task with GO

➡️ Have students practice their paragraph writing skills in a meaningful way, by teaching them about the concept of a motif.

Students will use the video mini-lesson that is built directly into the Google Doc that they receive to help them understand what to search for in the story, and then apply it to a practice writing assignment to reinforce their learning.

Motifs in the story include the use of FIRE, HUNTING, CONFUSION, as well as a few others however students are provided with a prompt about the notion of APPEARANCE VS. REALITY, which they then use to write their paragraph.

3 pages includes:

-Video, paragraph writing modelled graphic organizer, and blank paragraph planner.

5) The Hunger Games: What is an Archetype Mini-Lesson and Paragraph Activity

➡️ Have students practice their paragraph writing skills in a meaningful way, by teaching them about the concept of the archetype using The Hunger Games as the lesson- launing point.

Students will use the video mini-lesson that is built directly into the Google Doc that they receive to help them understand what to search for in the story, and then apply it to a practice writing assignment to reinforce their learning.

Archetypes are used throughout the story including the MONOMYTH or HERO's JOURNEY; THE SCAPEGOAT CHARACTER, GOOD vs. EVIL as a situational archetype, and of course the STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, among others. Students are, however, provided with a prompt about the archetypal HERO, which they then use to write their paragraphs.

3 pages includes:

-Video, paragraph writing modelled graphic organizer, and blank paragraph planner.

6) The Hunger Games Virtual Board Game Interactive Slides Final Assessment

➡️ This interactive Google Slides independent work packet assessment activity will test students' understanding of archetypal elements within the novel The Hunger Games. The templated assessment activity allows students feel like they are actually developing their very own interactive board game.

The board game itself is modelled after the Monomyth, showing the cycle that the hero must go through with the journey's three main stages. From there, the students develop virtual character pieces that are symbolic of the character archetypes that they select for characters that they learned about in the story. They also answer guided questions about characters, events, make connections between various textual elements and themselves to demonstrate knowledge application skills. Lastly, students describe archetypal symbols that they observed in the text.

This Google Slides packet is 15 pages long and takes one to two periods for students to complete.

7) Google Classroom: Archetypal Criticism Explained! Interactive Slides and Lessons

➡️ This 40-slide archetypes and archetypal criticism lesson with built-in activities allows teachers to move through individual slides to guide the lesson. Students will consolidate learning through built-in activities matched with each portion of the lesson. Full of relevant and familiar visuals to provide context for students.

Slides provide examples, relevant analogies and Disney references to help build connections between familiar concepts and the new ones outlined in the slides. Students will feel engaged while they learn about archetypal criticism

The following areas are outlined through the slides:

-What is literary criticism?

-Freud and Carl Jung - The preconscious and the collective unconscious

-Archetypes as a biological or instinctual function of the collective unconscious

-Northrop Frye: the literary cycle and patterns in literature

-Archetypal criticism

- Character archetypes: hero, scapegoat, outcast, devil, woman figures

-Situational archetypes: quest, task, initiation, journey, fall, death and rebirth

-Symbolic archetypes: light vs dark; water vs desert; heaven vs hell

Explained in simple terms, and a condensed version of the endless amount of resources that attempt to explain this concept... the collection of visual examples will support understanding so students can feel confident in their learning.

8) Google Slides: The Hero's Journey Notes and Interactive Slides Activities

➡️ Teach students about the monomyth and the hero's journey using this interactive Google Slide package.

38 page tool that includes:

-Introductory review of Joseph Campbell and archetypes.

-A visual map of the Monomyth

-The three stages of the hero's journey

-An individual breakdown of each step of the journey with explanation

-Visuals that compliment each explanation and are used to anchor their understanding

-Carefully selected examples that are relatable for students

- Integrated charts for students to complete after each stage in order to support their understanding with personalized examples and explanations in their own words.

-Sorting activities with answers on the final slides so students can check their own understanding.

9) The Hunger Games Anticipation Guide Google Copy

A quick introductory activity for students to complete to get their MINDS ON the novel.

In this activity they review some of the literary criticisms that are beneficial to understanding the text.

-Marxist Criticism --> they consider power and control in their own lives and what the struggle to overcome barriers may feel like.

-Archetypal Criticism --> it reviews what an archetype is and the three types of archetypes with a few examples (characters, symbols and situations)

-The Hero's Journey --> A brief overview of the hero's journey

There is also an interactive class activity using Google Docs, where they upload images that relate to various symbolic archetypes. --> You will need to copy and paste the graphic organizer and create a link to your own Google Doc for them to work on it collaboratively. A sample of the graphic organizer is embedded into the assignment.

10) Google Classroom: Elements of Story Interactive Notebook for Distance Learning

➡️ Built for Google Classroom, this 24 page interactive notebook package breaks down and simplifies the 6 elements of story:

Plot

Setting

Character

Point of View

Conflict and

Theme

into manageable parts so that students can review, as well as practice further develop an understanding about all of these story elements which can be applied to all literature.

Activities are incorporated for Plot, Setting, Character, Conflict and Theme to check for student understanding.

This student packet is both a note that they can refer back to throughout their other units, as well as an activity pack to ensure students are learning and understanding this fundamental components of literature. It is full of visuals that students will interact with in order to discern their ideas and understanding along the way.

The end of the interactive note is dedicated to theme, with a summative task of developing a theme paragraph with built-in teacher checkpoints to help chunk the activity, allow for feedback, and develop writing-process skills. There is also opportunity for students to work in pairs or small groups to share their documents for peer-editing.

The package uses familiar movies, stories and characters to help facilitate discussion around theme - one of the most challenges concepts to teach students.

Exemplars are built-in to support scaffolded learning and gradual release of responsibility with students being expected to submit a final draft of their theme paragraph at the end of the package only after viewing exemplars, discussing examples, submitting work at checkpoints, as well as self and peer editing.

Evaluative tools included in the package.

11) Google Classroom: Essay Structure / Thesis "Formula" Note with Example

➡️Use this note as an opportunity to consolidate students' learning about essay structure and the importance of following the essay "formula" to communicate their ideas to their reader.

Begin with the thesis structure and the equation of a thesis.

Next it describes the role of the thesis in guiding the audience throughout the essay and body paragraphs.

Lastly it goes through the body paragraph structure and how the order of ideas (topic, point, example, evidence, closing sentence) is key to articulating their ideas in the essay.

Sample question related to The Lion King and Archetypes is used to guide students through this lesson and note.

12) Virtual Agree or Disagree Walk - Social Issues Activity

➡️ great tool to see students' opinions on various topics - totally editable so teachers can personalize to their classroom discussions - which makes it a great MINDS ON diagnostic assessment to start a unit. Conversely, you could also use it as a formative test of student understanding, or help reinforce lessons on social issues. Developed for Animal Farm to help students better understand social issues that eventually lead groups of people to revolt, students will have an opportunity to look back at their answers and see where they stood "virtually" and if their opinions change by the end of the unit.

Includes:

-->Built in videos to summarize key ideas

--> Drag and drop activities that students can do as a class (share the file as an editable class-task)

--> Students choose an icon to represent who they are. This also gives them anonymity and helps them feel safer standing behind their opinions.

--> Students enter various virtual rooms to where they stand in the area of the room where they feel their opinions reside. This will prompt their opinion to develop supportive statements valuable for paragraph and essay writing.

Great for GLE

ENGLISH

HISTORY

GEOGRAPHY

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

and more!

13) How to Develop A Theme Statement - Interactive Workbook

➡️ Students will learn to discern the differences between a topic and a theme using this universal Google Slides interactive notebook and lesson packet. Workbook includes an optional graphic organizer and rubric for teachers to assess.

Students begin by watching a video to help introduce and better understand the concept of theme in literature. Following this, students consider familiar fairy tales and their corresponding themes, then dive in to brainstorming possible lessons for some themselves. Next, students practice identifying topics in common, well-known texts in drag and drop activities. Following this, they review the step by step process of how to develop a theme statement, followed by developing a theme for their own text. Paragraph activity at the end is optional but available for teachers who wish to use it.

14) Google Classroom: The Monomyth Cycle Graphic Organizer and Assignment

➡️ This graphic organizer, note and assignment in one is created to help guide students through the process of recognizing the various stages of the hero's journey in a text of the teacher's choice.

It begins with a review of what the hero's journey is along with a visual to help identify the various stages. Next is a graphic organizer detailing the 8 main stages of the monomyth, and a description written in colloquial terms in order to connect with students and better contextualize what happens at each stage. Students are provided with a blank column and asked to input their description of each stage of the hero's journey from the text indicated by the teacher.

Next the graphic organizer outlines a theme statement and asks students to use the main conflict, as well as the resolution at the end of the primary text, in order to develop their own theme that is appropriate for the movie or text. A checklist with examples of "Do's" and "Don't" is listed below to help guide them through developing their own theme.

A three-category rubric is listed below clearly indicating how students are being evaluated, with a space for teacher comments.

Use this tool as a movie guide for a variety of film or as a formative or summative tool for a variety of literary tasks including myth and novel studies.

15) The Hero's Journey: A visual and quick review of Monomyth

➡️ This one-page handout is a quick resource that simply explains the hero's journey along with an explanation of why it is archetypal. A good resource to include in students' notes if you are teaching them about archetypal criticism.

BONUS FILE

I have included Chapter 1 of the MODIFIED CURRICULUM WORKBOOK. In this package, students work through adapted work geared toward social skills development and basic literacy skills. For teachers who have students with special education needs in their classroom, the whole package can be printed and students can work independently through the package along with the rest of the class, with teacher support along the way.

For access to the whole workbook, please see link below:

The Hunger Games Modified Curriculum Novel Study BUNDLE Printable Workbook

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