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I am teaching this for the first time as a bookend to Fahrenheit 451. Anybody have some lesson plan and/or paper ideas to share? I have some in mind but always good to pick others' brains (as opposed to eating them in a Return of the Living Dead manner).

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What did you do with Far451? I have ideas for that. There was teacher in Pam Goble's summer class (Genre) that referenced Hunger Games. How about adding an "Ask Pam" column?
The thrust of our discussion was to get students to analyze our current society and look for connections to Bradbury's dystopian world. I'll continue with that for HG but am also looking for any other idea. We are going to study propaganda techniques and I am going to have them create propagandistic messages for reading(literacy - the antiF451), RFID chips (an article I had them read outside class) and the contest espoused in HG.
e-mail Brad Snyder/dept chair at Fenton HS in Illinois
He developed a powerful unit on archetypes Starwars/ Huck Finn and Alexie's Part Yime Indian. He is amazing at connections...also email Riley Graf at DG HS. She read HG this summer and will have some connective ideas.
I found a site that would be a good complement to the idea of the games themselves. http://www.ballgame.org/main.asp
Looks like fodder for a crosscurricular activity with social studies.

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