This document provides an agenda for a class that will focus on analyzing themes in The Hunger Games and writing a narrative essay about a significant personal experience. The class will include a vocabulary test on chapters 1-4 of The Hunger Games, group discussion of themes in the book, instruction on using sentence length to control tension in a narrative, exercises to help recall and reflect on the meaning of a significant personal experience, and developing a tentative thesis statement. Students will be assigned homework that includes continuing to read The Hunger Games, posting a first draft of their narrative essay incorporating feedback from the class, and studying vocabulary words.