CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT

6/3/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment
Level 2: Please write 5 sentences to complete the assignment
Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

Christopher states that he does not lie because he cannot lie.  Imagine a world where everyone was like Christopher and they could not lie.  How would life be different?  List the pros and cons.

6/2/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Please write 3 sentences to complete the assignment
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Level 3: Please write 7 sentences to complete the assignment

     How is Christopher’s writing style different from the style of other novels that you have read?

6/1/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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Name some of Christopher’s interesting characteristics:

HOW KATNISS AND PEETA END

5/31/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 3 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. What happens to Katniss and Peeta after they’ve announced them as the winners? 

2. Who is the first person Katniss calls out for when she recovers? 

3. Why doesn’t Katniss get to see Peeta? 

4. When the victors greet their mentor, escort, and stylist, why do they wear the same outfit they wore when they entered the arena? How might this be perceived by the Capitol audience?

5. How had Cinna helped Katniss with his wardrobe choice for her?

6. As part of their victors’ duties, what will Peeta & Katniss have to do in a few months? 

7. What is Katniss’s & Peeta’s relationship like at the end of the book?  Why?

THE GAMES

5/27/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. According to Katniss, why does Cato have a “special hatred” for her? 

2. Where do Katniss & Peeta go to wait for Cato? 

3. What is Cato wearing? 

4. Why is Cato running?

5. What was Cato running from? 

6. What attributes does Katniss notice right away that distinguishes themselves as unnatural beings? 

7. What psychological impact could the wolf mutts have on a tribute? Why? Is this worse than the physical threat? Explain.

5/26/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 3 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. Why do you think some characters (like Katniss and Thresh) feel as though they “owe” someone for kindness, and others (like Peeta) never expect “payment” for their kindness shown. 

2. When Peeta says “Haymitch said you would take a lot of convincing,” what was he referring to? 3. Even though they’ve kissed before, how is this kiss between Peeta & Katniss different for her? 4. When & how did Peeta fall in love with Katniss? 

5. What was the gift they received at the end of chapter 22?

6. What will Katniss’s & Peeta’s job be each year if they win the Hunger Games? 

7. What conclusion do they reach about how Haymitch won his Games?

5/25/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 3 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. Who is the first to retrieve their pack? 

2. Where was Clove just starting to cut Katniss before she was interrupted? 

3. Who saved Katniss’s life? 

4. Why did that person save Katniss? 

5. Which tribute dies at the “feast”? 

6. What type of moth is a “green and silver” moth?

7. What might it symbolize?

5/24/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 3 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. List the final 6 tributes by name & district #: 

2. When Katniss checks Peeta’s wounds, she diagnoses him with what condition? 

3. What story does Katniss share with Peeta? 

4. What is Claudius Templesmith’s big announcement? 

5. What does Haymitch send Katniss? 

6. What purpose will this gift serve for Katniss and Peeta? 

7. Why is Katniss willing to go to the feast to get the medicine for Peeta?

5/23/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 3 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. What motivates Katniss to try to find Peeta? Is it for her own gain or well-being, or his? 

2. True or False: Katniss finds Peeta next to the lake. 

3. True or False: Katniss washes Peeta’s wounds and bandages them. 

4. True or False: Peeta and Katniss take shelter in a copse of trees. 

5. True or False: Katniss and Peeta kiss for the first time, ever. 

6. True or False: Katniss is going to have to ramp up the romance if she wants to receive more than the loaf of bread Haymitch sent. 

7. Katniss is constantly thinking about how the audience is perceiving her, whereas Peeta (we think, anyway) just says what he feels. Why?

Katniss looks for Rue

5/20/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. How is Katniss injured? 
2. How does Katniss know something went wrong as she is looking for Rue?
3. How does Rue die? 
4. What does the word “rue” mean?  What does it mean to “rue the day”?  How is this symbolic of the events at the end of part II? 
5. If Katniss had given Rue her knife when they separated, would things have turned out differently for Rue? Why or why not? 
6. Analyze the meadow song Katniss sings to Rue. She says it’s often sung to crying babies (think about “Rock-a-bye, Baby” or other lullabies). How does the song fit the moment? How does it relate to Rue? 
7. List all the ways that Katniss shows compassion toward Rue as she dies & after she dies:

THEGAMES IN ACTION

5/19/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. True or False: Katniss hallucinates and is unconscious for about two days. 

2. True or False: Rue and Katniss spend the night in a cave. 

3. Peeta aligns with the Careers and Katniss eventually aligns with Rue.  What are the benefits of alliances?  What are the downfalls? 

4. How do the conditions in District 11 differ from those in District 12? Explain 

5. Why doesn’t the Capitol want the viewers to learn about the other districts? How does it benefit the Capitol?

6. Why does Rue like mockingjays? Why does Katniss like mockingjays? How are the two girls similar to the bird? 

7. Describe the Careers’ survival skills. In what ways are they superior to Katniss’s and the other tributes? In what ways are they lacking?

5/18/16 homework

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Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 2 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 4 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. What is the Capitol’s attitude about living things?  What about their creations, like the muttations?  The Capitol people/government left the male jabberjays to die out and did not destroy the tracker jacker nests around the districts (only those near the Capitol).  What does this say about the Capitol? 

2. What gift does Katniss receive? Why is it “priceless” to Katniss? 

3. True or False: Katniss warns Rue that she is going to attempt to harm the Careers. 

4. True or False: Katniss throws a mockingjay nest on the Careers. 

5. True or False: Katniss is unable to steal the bow & arrow from the District 8 boy. 

6. True or False: Peeta saves Katniss’s life by warning her that Cato is after her.

5/17/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 3 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. How does Katniss manipulate the audience at the beginning of chapter 12? 

2. Where are the cameras? They aren’t visible to Katniss, therefore they aren’t visible to the readers. Where do you think they are hidden? Or are they so high-tech that they are invisible? Elaborate. 

3. How does Katniss show her skills? 

4. Why doesn’t Haymitch send her water?

5. How do the Gamemakers intervene during the Hunger Games? Do you think it is playing fairly? Why or why not? 

6. True or False: Katniss severely injures her calf. 

7. True or False: Katniss is chased up a tree by Thresh and Rue. 

5/16/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer at least 2 questions
Level 2: Answer at least 4-5 questions
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

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1. What does a Cornucopia symbolize in the fall? What does it symbolize in the novel? 

2. True or False: Katniss dismisses Haymitch’s advice to head for cover and instead runs to the Cornucopia. 

3. True or False: Peeta forms an alliance with the Careers. 

4. True or False: Katniss finds water at the end of the first day. 

5. Would you join an alliance or play the game on your own?  Why?