THEGAMES IN ACTION

5/19/16 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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

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

Dear Students,

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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

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?

The games

5/13/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer question #1
Level 2: Answer question 1-3
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Peeta says that he doesn’t want to lose himself once the Games begin and that he wants to prove he’s not just a “piece in their Games.” What does he mean by this? 

2. How will the Capitol and audience be able to locate the tributes in the arena? What does this remind you of? 

3. How do you feel about Capitol residents touring the past arenas? How does it make Katniss feel? Can you think of places that people vacation to that might be similar to the Hunger Games arenas? Why do people visit them? Are we any different than the Capitol residents in this regard? Why or why not? 

4. What is the purpose of a district token? Can you think of any events in real life where people might bring a token with them? Explain

KATNISS PREPARES FOR THE HUNGER GAMES

5/12/16 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. Why is the interview (and appealing to the crowd) so important for a tribute? 

2. List all the different personalities (or “angles”) Haymitch attempts to have Katniss practice while he is coaching her for her interview. 

3. Is she successful at any of these “angles”? Explain. 

4. Why does Haymitch have difficulty coaching Katniss for her interview? How would you coach her if you were him? 

5. Describe Caesar Flickerman. Does he remind you of any current TV personalities or talk show hosts? 

6. Whose interview steals the show, Katniss’s or Peeta’s? 

7. What do you think Peeta’s motivation is with his announcement at the end of part 1?

5/11/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

Level 1: Answer question #1
Level 2: Answer questions 1-3
Level 3: Answer all of the questions

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. How would you respond to Katniss’s private session if you were a Gamemaker? Why? 

2. True or False: Peeta scored a 7 for his training session. 

3. True or False: Katniss scores a 12 for her training session. 

4. Why do you think Peeta wants to train separately

THE GAMES START

5/10/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. What strategy does Haymitch suggest for Katniss and Peeta during training? How does it set them apart from the other tributes? Do you think it will be effective? Why or why not? 

2. True or False: One of Katniss’s skills is shooting with a bow and arrow. 

3. True or False: One of Peeta’s skills is throwing a knife. 

4. True or False: Katniss shoots at a turkey during her private session with the Gamemakers. 

5. Compare the modern conveniences in the Capitol with the primitive living conditions of District 12. List them. 

6. Why the stark contrast between the two? What other differences do you see between the Capitol and District 12?

5/9/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Which floor of the Training Center is assigned to Katniss, Peeta & their team? 

2. How did Peeta “save” Katniss at dinner? 

3. What is an Avox? 

4. Where had Katniss seen the Avox girl previously? 

5. Do you think it is merely coincidence that the red-headed Avox girl is serving the district 12 tributes, the nearest district from where she was captured? Could it be possible that the Capitol knows Katniss was in the woods that day? Why or why not?

HUNGER GAMES--AN INTRODUCTION

5/6/16 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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Where are Katniss & Peeta taken when they arrive in the Capitol? 

2. What do these people do to Katniss?

3. Who is Katniss’s stylist? 

4. What is his plan for her outfit for the Opening Ceremony? 

5. What “slogan” does her stylist come up with for her? Why is this fitting for Katniss? 

6. What is the reaction from the Capitol crowd to the District 12 tributes in the Opening Ceremonies? How might this help them in the Games? 

7. Describe the Capitol. How is it different from District 12?

5/5/16 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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. What does Katniss do with the cookies Peeta’s father gave her? 

2. What does she see when she does this with the cookies? How is that symbolic? 

3. What do the woods symbolize to Katniss and Gale? 

4. What is the symbolism of the arrow-shaped Katniss plant (also known as arrowroot)? 

5. Why do Katniss & Peeta get upset with Haymitch? 

6. What advice (about their stylists) does Haymitch give Peeta & Katniss? 

7. How does Peeta act when they arrive at the Capitol?

5/4/16 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following question in complete sentences:

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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Who comes to say goodbye to Katniss? (List all) 

2. List all the “gifts” Katniss receives & by whom they were given. 

3. Why does Katniss refuse to show any emotion? Why doesn’t Katniss want to get close to any of the tributes, including Peeta? 

4. What form of transportation will take Katniss & Peeta to the Capitol? 

5. Why is it ironic that Effie calls district 12 barbaric? 

6. What happens to Haymitch at the end of Chapter 3?

5/3/16 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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Who volunteers for Primrose? 
2. How do the district 12 citizens address Katniss when she volunteers for Prim? What does this gesture symbolize? What gestures do we use today that might have similar meanings? 
3. Who is selected as the boy tribute for District 12? 
4. Why couldn’t Katniss’s mother take care of Katniss or her sister Prim? If they lived somewhere other than the Seam, would things have been different for her mother? 
5. How was Katniss’s life saved when she was 11 years old? 
6. Would you volunteer for your little sister (or brother, or older sibling, or friend)?  Why or why not?  What does it tell you about Katniss? 
7. How do you feel about the victors of the Hunger Games earning free food for their fellow citizens?  What problems might arise?

5/2/16 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

**All homework must be signed by a parent.**

1. Why does Katniss go to the woods? 

2. Who is Gale? 

3. Which district does Katniss live in? 

4. How is Madge different from Katniss and Gale? 

5. What event is today? 

6. Whose name is selected from the bowl? 

7. The story is set in the future, so when Katniss references her ancestors, she is referring to us. What has happened to North America? How might we have contributed to the destruction of it?