The lesson plan is for a class of 30 students studying The Hunger Games. The learning objectives are for students to recall the first four chapters and empathize with different characters. Students will complete a gap-fill activity, quiz, and poll to assess their recall and empathy. They will then write tweets as different characters to show their understanding, and provide feedback on each other's tweets in a plenary discussion. The lesson incorporates collaborative work and cognitive challenges like writing from a character's perspective.

1. Lesson Plan pro forma
Class: 7NE
(mixed ability sets)
indicate levels of attainment
Date:
11/5/2016
Time: 12:20 –
13:25
No. of pupils:
30
Unit /SoW: The Hunger Games
Key Learning Goals:
ref. to exam board criteria/NC as
appropriate
… in pupil-friendly format:
LO: To be able to recap what
happens in the first four chapters
To think empathetically about each
character
Expected Learning Outcomes:
all pupils? some pupils? a few pupils?
All pupils will be able to recall the first four
chapters of The Hunger Games using a
range of tasks, and with their partner, they
will have to work collaboratively.
Thereafter, they will think about who they
empathise with the most, and write
tweets as if they were that character.
Opportunities for Assessment:
Formative & summative
 Gap-fill – this starter activity will allow students to jog their memory
about the book, and think about some of the harder terminology
 Quiz – the quiz tests students on Chapters 1 – 4, focusing on key events in
the book. This allows them to think about the characters in the book, as
well as the things that they have had to endure.
 Poll – who do you have most sympathy for? This allows students to
deliberate with their partner about who they feel most sorry for, and
choose one person.
 Open-ended questioning – students will have to answer why they have
chosen this character and give their own opinion, as well as finding
quotes to back up their feelings.
 Twitter page – students will write their own tweets for the character they
have chosen, using the key events as well as quotes that they have found.
 Plenary – Feedback from the twitter page. This shows whether they have
encapsulated the essence of the character in their tweets
Cognitive challenges:
Desirable difficulties for all abilities; how will students progress?
Writing their own Twitter page – students may find it difficult to write their own
tweets, but the activities before will work on the events that have happened in

2. the book, as well as thinking deeper about the characters and their actions. A
model will also show how to write the tweets, and guidelines for writing them.
EBT strategies:
e.g. APK, reciprocal teaching, collaborative learning, advance & visual organisers,
similarities and differences, goals, repetition and practice, meta-cognition,
feedback, cognitive challenge, subject knowledge, summaries and note-taking
 Collaborative learning – students will be working in pairs with their iPads
and deliberating when having to answer open-ended questions
Key Terminology:
 Dystopia
 Utopia
 Hunger Games
 Primrose Everdeen
 Katniss Everdeen
 The mother
Resources:
 iPads
 Twitter templates
 Nearpod
(https://s.nearpod.com/j/1E2DCBC9C56
2F318E39D568907CBEC75-1)
Homework and practice:
• N/A