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2. AGENDA
The Hunger Games: Themes and Concepts
Discussion:
A Well-Told Story
Sentence length.
Constructing an action sequence
Reflecting on the Event's Significance pp. 48-49
In-Class Writing
1. Focus on the climax of your event. Write a paragraph describing the action
using short and long sentences to control the intensity of your narrative.
2. Recalling Your Remembered Feelings and Thoughts
3. Exploring Your Present Perspective
4. Formulating a Tentative Thesis Statement
3. In your groups
Take five minutes to discuss the various
themes and concepts that appear in The
Hunger Games.
Try to identify particular passages from the
text that support your assertions
8. • A Well-told story
To create suspense,, Wolff uses a combination of short and long sentences. Reread
this paragraph and consider how they work here.
9. Use Sentence
Length to
Control the
Tension in your
story
1. Focus on the climax of
your event. Write a
paragraph describing
the action using short
and long sentences to
control the intensity of
your narrative.
2. Use active verbs to
make the sentence
come alive.
11. Show that the event was important
• Dramatize the event so readers can understand your
feelings about it.
• Show scenes from your point of view so readers can
identify with you.
Tell us that the event was important
• Tell how you felt at the time of the experience
• Tell how you feel about it now, in reflection.
The Goal: Indicate the Event’s
Significance
12. Before the opening ceremonies, Katniss meets with her stylist, Cinna, to prepare. Cinna
presses a button and a fancy meal of “Chicken and chunks of oranges cooked in a creamy
sauce laid on a bed of pearly white grain, tiny green peas and onions, rolls shaped like
flowers, and for dessert, a pudding the color of honey” appears (65). Katniss thinks about
how difficult it would be to get a meal like this in District 12:
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press
of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for
sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the
Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of
tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?
I look up and find Cinna’s eyes trained on mine. ‘How despicable we must seem
to you,’ he says. (65)
Katniss doesn’t respond to Cinna’s statement, but she agrees in her head. “He’s right,
though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable” (65).
Although our world does not really consist of a Capitol and many districts, there are still
some people who live more comfortably than others. For people like me who live in privilege,
life is easy. Food is readily available if I want to eat. Outside of school, I don’t really have
many responsibilities. I don’t have to worry about how I will survive day to day. My family
has told me on many occasions to think about how lucky I am to live the way I do. In other
countries, life is hard. In Africa, children starve to death as a result of famine and poverty.
People my age in some countries are working more than my parents do. Katniss’s disgust
for the extravagant Capitol is similar to the disgust I felt for myself when I listened to
an account of one man’s visit to factories in China.
13. The Strategy: Recall Remembered Feelings and Thoughts: Answer
These Questions:
1. What were your expectations before the event?
2. What was your first reaction to the event as it was happening
and right after it ended?
3. How did you show your feelings? What did you say?
4. What did you want the people involved to think of you? Why
did you care what they thought of you?
5. What did you think of yourself at the time?
6. How long did these initial feelings last?
7. What were the immediate consequences of the event for you
personally?
Pause now to reread what you have written. Then write another
sentence or two about the event’s significance to you at the time it
occurred.
14. The Strategy Continued: Explore Your Present Perspective
1. Looking back, how do you feel about this event? If you understand it
differently now than you did then, what is the difference?
2. What do your actions at the time of the event say about the kind of
person you were then? How would you respond to the same event if it
occurred today?
3. Can looking at the event historically or culturally help explain what
happened? For example, did you upset racial, gender, or religious
expectations? Did you feel torn between identities or cultures? Did you
feel out of place?
4. Do you see now that there was a conflict underlying the event? For
example, were you struggling with contradictory desires? Did you feel
pressured by others? Were your desires and rights in conflict with
someone else’s? Was the event about power or responsibility.
5. Pause to reflect on what you have written about your present
perspective. Then write another sentence or two, commenting on the
event’s significance as you look back on it
15. Emphasizing the significance of
your event
Keep in mind that you are not obliged to tell readers
the significance, but you must show it through the
way you tell the story.
If you do decide to tell readers explicitly why the
event was meaningful or significant, you will most
likely do so as you tell the story, by commenting on
or evaluating what happened, instead of announcing
the significance at the beginning.
16. The Strategy
Review what you wrote for Reflecting on the Event’s
Significance, and add another two or three sentences, not
necessarily summarizing what you already have written but
extending your insights into the significance of the event,
what it meant to you at the time, and what it means to you
now.
17. HOMEWORK
Read: HG through chapter 12. SMG p 37 “Commentary:
Autobiographical Significance,” and 625-633.
Post #7: Post your draft. This is what you should have at this
point: Introduction to your long quotation; long quotation;
transition; thesis; intro to event, description of place(s),
description of people, a dialogue or two, the climax (with short
and long sentences working to achieve your goal), and a
paragraph that speaks to the significance or your event (use the
list of answers to the questions on slide #13 and #14); end with
framing plan.