This book tells a fictional story of children of the future in North America who are placed into ritualistic dangerous games that could ultimately result in their death.
Teachers and parents/guardians could use this book as as an example the potentially difficult choices one make for their family and the result of those choices. This author wrote the Hunger Games Trilogy to include this book, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. The Hunger Games Trilogy has also been made into big screen movie productions. In addition, she has also written The Underland Chronicles, When Charlie McButton Lost Power, and Year of the Jungle.
This book is an excellent present day example of science fiction. The story includes adventure, danger, and life in the future. There are no illustrations in this book as it is a novel.
Motivational Activities:
1. Write 3 to 5 paragraphs describing your strengths and weaknesses if you were a participant in the Hunger Games.
2. Divide students into small groups of 3 to 5 students and present each group with a task. Students must then work as a group to determine the best way to complete the task both efficiently and effectively.
Reader Response Questions:
1. How far would you go for your sisters or brothers?
2. Discuss basic survival techniques.
Collins, S. (2008) The Hunger Games New York, Scholastic Press
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Put students in groups of two and have them write down ideas of what they would choose to put in a survival bag to make it in the Hunger games. Then to make it fun, have each group make up a crossword puzzle asking questions about the book and have them trade puzzles and the first group to complete the crossword puzzle first is the winner.
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