The Hunger Games Final Project
Due:
Objectives for Final Project:
1. Relate one or more of these topics to the Hunger Games:
a.
b.
c.
Dystopia
Self-Preservation
Survival of the Fittest
d. Corporal Punishment
e. Propaganda
f. Dehumanization
2. Use Hunger Games quotations as evidence and support for your argument.
a. Set up a context for the quotation: What was happening in the story?
b. Connect your quotation to your argument: What does the quotation prove?
3. Use class time wisely.
4. Use correct grammar, spelling, and complete sentences.
RESEARCH
PAPER
MONOLOGUE
GRAPHIC
NOVEL
Draw and write a graphic novel.
+ Choose a character other than Katniss to follow through at least a “Part” of the story:
Part
I: The Tributes, Part: II The Games, or Part: III The Victors.
+ Parts of graphic novel may not be part of the story but overall, ideas should be
consistent
with what the character thinks and does in the text.
Write and perform a monologue (speech) from a character’s POV.
+ Write out a “script” of what just one character from the Hunger Games would say and
might say about one or more of the 6 themes listed above.
+ Parts of monologue may not be part of the story but overall, ideas should be consistent
with
what the character thinks and does in the text.
+ Use eye-contact, a bold voice, and appropriate emotion when giving your speech.
Write a research paper on the psychology/sociology of the themes.
+ Use 3 or more books, articles, scholarly websites as resources for your research on one
or
more of the 6 themes.
+ Record resources in a Bibliography.
+ Use interviews or surveys from people you know.
TEXT-TO-TEXT
JOURNAL
ENTRIES
Write 3 journal entries from a character.
+ The 3 journal entries should be from 3 different points in the book.
+ Each journal entry must be size 12 font, Times New Roman, and must be 475 to 500
words.
+ Parts of journal entry may not be part of the story but overall, ideas should be
consistent
with what the character thinks and does in the Hunger Games.
+ The journal entry should explore the 6 themes listed above.
Connect this book to another book, poem, article, or short story.
+ Create a presentation or a paper that connects the Hunger Games to another text in a
meaningful way (Cannot be with “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson).
+ Use quotations from both texts to support your connections (involving one or more of
the 6
themes listed above).
When you have decided on which project you’d like to create, you will be given a grading rubric
specific to your project. Reference the specific rubric for the grading breakdown and expectations
for your project.