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Priority Tasks
Priority Tasks
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Novel Activities
Novel Activities
When you are up-to-date with your reading and have completed all priority tasks, click the activities below to extend yourself.
Online Novel
Online Novel
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Novel Introduction
Novel Introduction
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Character Collage
Character Collage
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Learn, Create, Share
You must create a character collage that depicts and explains important personality traits about a character in the novel. Your collage should consist of carefully selected images, which represent specific character traits. It should be somewhat attractive – although it isn’t an art project, presentation always counts.
Choose a prominent character from the novel.
Create a collage of images that represent your character’s personality. These images can be cut out of magazines, drawn, or carefully selected from google images.
Share your character collage to your blog and write to explain at least five of your images. These explanations should identify what the image represents, and explain why it is an important trait within your character.
Character Timeline
Character Timeline
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Learn, Create, Share
You are to create a timeline tracking important events for one of the major characters in the text, and the development in his/her personality and outlook. Your timeline should show what happens to the character and how it changes him/her in the novel.
Share your timeline on your blog and write to explain the key events that took place and how they affected one of the main characters in the novel. Ask your audience how they might have changed if they experienced similar events.
Create Your Own Mutations
Create Your Own Mutations
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Learn, Create, Share
In The Hunger Games, we encounter a few of the Capitols mutations or "mutts." These creatures are genetically designed by the Capitol to serve specific functions.
The jabberjay is used for surveillance. It is a bird that can remember human conversations and repeat them later. The Capitol used them to spy on the rebellious Districts. Later, after mating with common mockingbirds, the jabberjay became the mockingjay. While it can no longer reproduce human words, it can remember and repeat human melodies and sounds.
Tracker jackers are mutated wasps, designed to be especially deadly and persistent. When disturbed, they will chase their victims for great distances, refusing to give up until they have had their revenge. Their venom is a powerful psychedelic narcotic, and a few stings can kill an adult human.
Your assignment is to design a new Capitol mutt. Your creature should be a combination of existing animals, but can have added, genetically-designed features. It should serve a specific purpose for the Capitol:
Determine what kind of creature you will design. What does it look like? What is its purpose? How does it serve the Capitol? How do the people living in the Districts deal with or avoid it?
Draw and label your new mutt. Labels should identify the creature's special features.
Write a paragraph explaining your mutation. Your paragraph must cover the following:
• Genetic building-blocks (which animals were combined). • Purpose (what the Capitol uses it for). • Coping techniques (how do the people living in the Districts deal with or avoid these creatures?).
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