Mara+and+Kylie's+Lesson+Plan

=**Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins- Lesson Plan**= Lesson Plan: **//Hunger Games// By: Suzanne Collins** BY: Mara, Kylie Essential Question: What are the literary devices and techniques the author uses to create cliffhangers to keep the audience interested? Objectives: Students will learn about Activities: Students will be split up in 5 groups of 5 depending on size of class. These groups will look at the end of a chapter and examine how the author created a cliff hanger to keep her readers interested. After evaluating these cliff hangers and analyzing, the students will create mini movies about their cliff hangers and present them to the class. Discussion/ guiding questions: What is a cliff hanger? How does the author use cliff hangers to keep the story going and readers interested? What are the ethnicities of characters? What do characters look and sound like? What is the purpose of the scene in the grand scheme of the plot?
 * Brief Overview:**
 * cliff hangers
 * movie making
 * analyzing and developing characters and plot of the story

Materials: Computers Hunger Games book Story bird or another movie making web 2.0 tool

Assessment: Monitoring discussion groups and final movie project.

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