Thank you so much to everyone that gave suggestions! Its been a year since I read
the book, so even though I absolutely loved it, I was having trouble with specific
ideas. You guys are wonderful!
I think I thanked everyone individually, but if I somehow missed you, please know
that I really appreciated the input!
Activites Ideas:
*
Maybe give the kids the option of competing solo, in a pack, or with a
partner?
* Video record the competition and play it for the entire school?
* station where students learn to tie knots. Maybe have a boy scout of
someone to teach it
* You could also set up a target and buy one of those kiddie archery sets
(the kind with blunt or
plastic arrows)
* Make your own emblem like the Mockingjay Katniss wears?
* How about using a compass to locate survival items?
* You could even do a survival "vote the character off the island/book"
about who they want
to keep in the next book?
* Design your own costumes for battle contest?
* Use building materials and have them recreate District 12 or the
Capitol, or they could use online design programs to do it using
computers if you have them?
* How about wordles creation for the characters or the book itself?
www.wordle.net <http://www.wordle.net>
* HungerGames collage from magazine and newspaper cuttings?
* Maybe they could make paper dolls for younger students based on the
characters and give a play recreating the less gory scenes?
* You can even create mazes to recreate the skills and difficulty needed
to get out of district 12 when the electric fence becomes reactivated?
* How about reader's theatre? You'd have to create scripts, but I find
kids love dramatic expression when they don't have to memorize the words
and they really get into the characters and theme doing it.
* Include a cornucopia.
*
If you're very, very sure you won't catch flak for it, you could set up a
variant of the "Assassination" game; give each kid a folded piece of paper with the
name of a weapon on it, and turn them loose. Ranged weapons would have to be
thrown, whereas if they have the "knife," they must actually touch someone with it.
Again, I could see this backfiring, so I'd get your principal's backing before
going for it, although the kids would love it. If you can do it outside, maybe
water guns?
*
we are thinking about basing it somewhat on Survivor- breaking the students
into
tribes and giving them challenges. One challenge could be trivia from
the book, other challenges may be more physical.
*
what about a face painting station (Peeta can disguise/camouflage
himself both in the area and in training)?
*
How about a three legged race between pairs of kids? Show them it's easier
to work together than separately.
*
Perhaps something with genetics, with crossing various types of animals,
such as the mockingjay. Assign them various animals and have them develop them as
a hybrid weapon.
Snack Ideas:
*
squirrel stew
*
different kinds of berries
*
coarse bread
*
jerky
*
hot chocolate
Brandy Huffman
Media Coordinator
Walter Johnson Middle School
Morganton, NC 28655
(828) 430-7340
bshuffman@burke.k12.nc.us
"Wicked people never have time for reading," Dewey said. "It's one of the reasons
for their wickedness."
~From The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket
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