English KS3 / KS4 The Hunger Games Gale and Katniss Dystopia Language / Structure analysis, writing

This is an extract based activity on a popular dystopian novel, the Hunger Games. Students will be able to bring lots of contextual knowledge to discussions about this text. There are lots of activities, including assessing prior knowledge of the text, and of the dystopia style genre. This extract gives students a simplified and broken down way of accessing the text. The first part poses comprehension and language activities to ensure the text is carefully read. The second part gives questions which follow the style of Language Paper 1 for AQA - analysing language, writing about structure and evaluating a section of the extract. This lesson can easily be edited for the Edexcel exam specification.

This lesson can easily be adapted for KS3 students studying the Dystopia genre

There are writing activities to include vocabulary building, as well as the usual exam style writing activity, with 2 writing options.

This lesson can easily be edited for the AQA or Edexcel exam specification.