Year 9 Scheme: The Hunger Games - Genre Study

A 9-week scheme to teach ‘The Hunger Games’ (book) to a Year 9 English class.

In this scheme I’ve included:

• a very basic SoL/SoW breakdown;
• the lesson slides (some are very simple reading questions, as some of the chapters take a fair bit of time to read through, while others have more complex activities, e.g. paragraph analysis practice);
• relevant worksheet tasks or activity sheets;
• a chapter-by-chapter storyboard, to help those who need support with reading;
• and assessment tasks: a creative writing task, an analysis/essay task, and a speech task.
  You can use these tasks if you like, or adjust to suit your department’s requirements.

In the past, I’ve bought the film on YouTube and dipped in and out throughout the unit; it used to take me 10 weeks if I included film catch-up days, i.e. we would read a certain set of chapters, and then do a film lesson to watch that section as a comparison along with activities. You could do it this way, or focus on film catch-up at the end as a post-reading activity.