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[|Hunger Games Official trailer] //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!// The country Panem divided into 13 districts, one got destroyed, because of rebellion. Every year there are the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games were made to tell the districts that the Capitol is in control and there will be no more uprisings. Poor people like Katniss, work as hunters outside the district. The story mainly takes place in District 12 and the Capital. 2. Character List- make sure to list each main character and include a brief description and quote from the character
 * Trailer:**
 * Step One **
 * Settings:**
 * Time: Future
 * Place: North America (Panem)
 * Mood: District 12: GLoomy, dark, isolated. Capital: Lively, colorful.
 * Environment: District 12: Almost destroyed, forest, animals are genetically engineered. Capitol: A lively city.
 * What is the future like?**

Katniss: Katniss is the female tribute for district 12. She volunteered for her younger sister, Primrose, when Prim was picked to be the female tribute for District 12. She can use the arrow well, since she hunted animals for living in the forbidden forest with Gale, her friend. //"I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" (22)//

Primrose: Primrose is the younger sister of Katniss, and Prim was picked to be the tribute for district 12 before Katniss volunteered for her. //"No Katniss! No! You can't go!" (23)//



Gale: Gale is the hunting friend of Katniss'. He is two years above Katniss, and he is well with the traps. He also cares a lot for Katniss //"Listen," he says, "Getting a knife should be pretty easy, but you've got to get your hands on a bow. That's your best chance"(39)//

Peeta: He is the male tribute for the 75 th  Hunger Games. Peeta have claimed his love to Katniss during the interview for the Hunger Games. //"Becasue...because.. she came here with me" (130)//

Haymitch: He is the old victor of the Hunger Games from district 12. He is the only living victor. Haymitch drinks a lot, and is an alcoholic. He also acts as the mentor for Katniss and Peeta when they go into the Hunger Games.

Cinna: He is the stylist for Katniss. But he becomes something more than just a stylist for Katniss. Cinna is a big brotherish figure to Katniss, and tries to give her all the advantages to her as much as possible. He is supporting, calm and intelligent. //"And remember this. I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you." (146)//

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? Are there other elements of the book that could be based on events in history?
 * Discussion Prompt 1 **

The capital in Panem symbolizes dictators in history. Dictators like Hitler and Stalin do not let people oppress the government. Governments try to control all of their people to prevent an up-springing. Dictators always censor the news and allow no freedom of speech. The Capital in Panem and the districts are just like dictators and their people. Dictators like Stalin and Hitler murdered a lot of their own people to prove their power. Hitler killed the jews and Stalin held the trials.

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.

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

Source: http://montycores.wikispaces.com/Hunger+Games

Injustices are a matter of opinion: During the discussion in class about if a war is just or unjust, everybody had different opinions. Things can be just or unjust according to who you are and what your beliefs are. Loyalty is the most important part of a relationship between family or friends: Without loyalty, there is no point in having a relationship. You always have to listen and be loyal to your friends. Without loyalty, love, affection, trust doesn't mean anything, since the relationship will break apart quickly. Success often has as much to do with luck as with our choices,actions, or abilities: Succes has a lot to do with luck. You cannot succeed only with your skills. Some things for success depend on others and their opinions. For this you can only rely on luck. When in danger, it is best to play it safe rather than take a risk: It is always good to take a risk and be confident. If you play it safe you will regret it later. In the game Pitu, you have to try to get inside the circle and you're never going to get inside of it if you don't take a risk. In a life-or-death situation, almost any action is forgivable: Almost every situation in a life-or-death is forgivable because it's in the matter of life or death. Sometimes you have to things to save yourself that can be even unforgivable and imoral things.
 * Before:**


 * After Reading and Connection to Theme:**

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

At district 12 she already tries to survive on her own. She is not that rich so she hunts out in the woods for food, and then sells these foods. This gives Katniss an advantage because she already has the survival and killing skills she needs for the Hunger Games. She also has great knowledge of the bow and arrow and can use it very well as a weapon. 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?

Katniss and Gale seem like great friends who will sacrifice things for each other. After all they are hunting partners and always share their earnings. Prim and Katniss have a very strong relationship. Katniss loves here sister so much that she even volunteered as Hunger Games tribute. Katniss's mom seems like she relies on Katniss to support the family. And Katniss does do that.

We think the relationship Katniss has with Peeta is quite strong. Peeta has so far been very generous to Katniss. We think that their relationship will probably develope throughout the whole book. 3. How will Peeta's approach contrast with Katniss's as they try to survive? Which approach do you think is best. Why?

Peeta's approach is to be kind, nice and humorous in a way. Katniss is trying to look just as herself, but not too mean, as Haymitch pointed out. While they try to survive, Peeta will continue to keep the lover boy concept for the sake of Katniss, hoping that it would keep Katniss alive, and since Katniss doesn't know anything about Peeta's love being genuine, she will just continue to look out for a way for her to stay alive.

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.

They Capitol boy and girl ran away because they may of not liked how the Capitol was run. And they may of not even been able to be together so their only option was to run away.

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?

I think that Peeta really does love Katniss, and I can say this because in the book, there is a part when Peeta tells Katniss about the first time when they met. When Peeta is telling Katniss about the moment when he fell in love with Katniss, he remembers every single detail. Also, in the Games, I can see that Peeta really is in love with Katniss from the way he acts.

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?

He means that he doesn't want the games to change him, maybe like the Games changed Haymitch. This tells us that Peeta wants to stay true to who he his and not let the Games change himself. I think to stay true to him during the games he has to act as himself and play to his strengths, and at the same time take risks.


 * Vocab:**


 * Aloof - at a distance, especially in feeling or interest.**


 * Elude - to avoid or escape by speed, cleverness or trickery.**


 * Ajar - neither entirely open nor entirely closed; partly open.**


 * Honing - a precision tool with a mechanically rotated abrasive tip, for enlarging holes to precise dimensions.**


 * Burlap - a plain-woven, course fabric of jute, hemp, or the like; gunny.**