Novel Opening

Novel opening lesson containing a language analysis focus, using the opening to Suzanne Collins’ ‘Hunger Games’.

Contains: silent starter/Do Now activity, visual stimulus, extract from the novel’s opening, instructions for annotation exercise, and a creative activity in which students create a graphic novel spread of the opening lines, and a plenary discussion.

This lesson is particularly successful with Key Stage 3/early Key Stage 4.

Lesson is differentiated through scaffolding, multimodal stimulus, and can be taught up or down the skill set of your class.

This lesson is also fantastic to use as an interview lesson, as I was given a successful job offer from teaching this lesson.