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Summer Novel Study Curriculum Guide - The Hunger Games Unit PlanSummer Novel Study Curriculum Guide - The Hunger Games Unit Plan
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Los Angeles County Office of Education
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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1 mo 26 days
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Summer Novel Study Curriculum Guide - The Hunger Games

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The odds that readers will enjoy a summer reading project will be in your favor if you choose Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games as the anchor text. The richly detailed plans included in this resource make it easy to volunteer to include the unit in your curriculum. Let the fun begin!

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

utopia, dystopian literature

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • The materials could easily be adapted for independent summer reading

Classroom Considerations

  • The unit is designed for an eight-week summer school program divided into two sessions

Pros

  • The 138-page packet includes an overview of the novel as an example of dystopian literature, a list of project ideas and a rubric for them, a reading calendar, weekly plans, worksheets, quizzes, and an annotated list of additional readings

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.10a RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.10a W.9-10.1.a W.9-10.9.a W.11-12.1.a W.11-12.9.a SL.9-10.1.a SL.9-10.4 SL.11-12.1.a SL.11-12.4

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