The Hunger Games Lesson Plan

Choosing Tributes

Kind of Activity:

Classwide Discussion

Objective:

Examine the system by which tributes are chosen for the Hunger Games.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7

Structure:

As Katniss correctly observes, the poor are much more likely to be selected at random that the well-off, because poorer children often exchange additional entries for the necessary resources to feed themselves or their family. Discuss this system. You may ask your students the following questions:

- Is the tribute-selection process "fair"? Why or why not?

- Why are poor people more likely to be selected as tributes? Do you think the Capitol...