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Lesson 7Harrison Bergeron & The Hunger Games-- Dystopian and Utopian Societies
Monday, December 10, 12
Comprehension Quiz- #3
✤ What is the significance of Katniss’s personal training session with The Games Keepers?
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Comprehension Quiz- #4
✤ What is the significance of Peeta wanting to train alone on their last training session with Haymitch?
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Comprehension Quiz- #5
✤ Boys: If you were Peeta-- How would you feel after getting the scores back knowing Katniss scored higher than you? Why would you feel this way?
✤ Girls: If you were Katniss-- What would your emotions be scoring higher than Peeta? Why would you feel this way?
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About The Author: Kurt Vonnegut
✤ Born November 11, 1922-- Indianapolis, Indiana
✤ Died April 11, 2007
✤ Known mostly for his story “Slaughterhouse Five”-- based on his experiences in WWII
✤ Considered one of the most influential American Novelists in the 20th century
✤ Blended literature with science fiction & humor, and the absurd with pointed social commentary
✤ Created his own unique world and characters in all of his novels and short stories
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About The Author: Kurt Vonnegut
✤ Enlisted in the U.S Army
✤ Fought in the Battle of the Bulge & was captured as a Prisoner of War
✤ Escaped with other Prisoners of War and returned to the U.S to marry his High School sweetheart!
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Story Elements: Antagonist
✤ A person who opposes or competes with the main character.
✤ Usually the bad guy
✤ Question: Who would be the antagonist in The Hunger Games?
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Story Elements: Conflict
✤ Opposing elements or characters in a plot
✤ Question: What’s the conflict in The Hunger Games?
✤ Question: Name a conflict you have encountered in your life.
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Story Elements: Conflict: Person vs. Person
✤ A character has a problem with one ore more of the other characters
✤ Question: Where do we see this type of conflict in The Hunger Games?
✤ Question: Where have you experienced a Person vs. Person conflict?
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Story Elements: Conflict:Person vs. Society
✤ A character has a problem with a form of society: The school, and accepted way of doing things, the law etc.
✤ Question: Where do we see this type of conflict in The Hunger Games?
✤ What type of experience have you had with this type of conflict?
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Story Elements: Conflict:Person vs. Self
✤ A character has a problem determining what to do in a situation
✤ Question: Where / who has this conflict in The Hunger Games?
✤ Question: Name a conflict that you have had like this.
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Story Elements: Conflict:Person vs. Nature
✤ A character has a problem with nature: natural disasters, extreme heat, freezing temperatures.
✤ Question: Where do we see this conflict in The Hunger Games?
✤ Question: Where have you experienced this type of conflict?
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Story Elements: Conflict:Person vs. Fate (God)
✤ A character has to battle what appears to be an uncontrollable problem that is attributed by fate or God.
✤ Question: Where do we see this conflict in The Hunger Games?
✤ Question: Where have you experienced this type of conflict?
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Story Elements: Denouement
✤ The outcome or resolution of a plot in a story.
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Story Elements: Plot
✤ The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events
✤ Question: Name an aspect of the plot in The Hunger Games.
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Story Elements: Plot: Rising Action
✤ Reveals complications/ conflict in the story
✤ Question: Where do you think the rising action starts in The Hunger Games?
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Story Elements: Plot: Resolution
✤ Reveals the final outcome of the conflicts in the story
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Story Elements: Protagonist
✤ The main character or hero of a written work
✤ Question: Name our protagonist ( there can be more than one)
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SQ3R: Reading Strategy
✤ We are going to be using this reading strategy throughout the year as well as while we read Harrison Bergeron and The Hunger Games!
✤ Fill out the following note taking handout as we go through it together as a class!
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S: SQ3R
✤ Survey:
✤ Student previews the short story/chapter to look at the organization of the information
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Q: SQ3R
✤ Question:
✤ Student examines the chapter headings and sub-headings and replaces them with questions
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R: SQ3R
✤ Read:
✤ The student reads one section of the chapter at a time selectively, primarily to answer the questions
✤ Recite:
✤ The student answers each question in his or her own words and writes the answers in their notes (This is repeated for every section)
✤ Review:
✤ The student immediately reviews what has been learned.
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Talking To The Text Reading Strategy:
✤ This is another key reading strategy that we will be using while reading Harrison Bergeron as well as The Hunger Games
✤ While reading you will be asking and answering questions you may have while reading.
✤ Look at the hand-out for some useful questions to use while reading!
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Talking To The Text Reading Strategy:✤ A question I have is...
✤ Does this make sense?
✤ I agree/disagree with....
✤ Something important is...
✤ Aha! Now I see....
✤ What does this word mean?
✤ It reminds me of....
✤ I predict.....
✤ I can visualize....
✤ The big picture is...
✤ The reminds me of...
✤ This relates to my life...
✤ I’m confused about....
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Introduction to Harrison Bergeron
✤ This story is fictional (meaning it’s not real)
✤ It was written in a future society based off of 2081
✤ Everyone is meant to be the same/equal
✤ Everyone is made equal by the government
✤ People are called “handicapped” and are meant to average
✤ Harrison challenges this system
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Brainstorm Questions about Harrison Bergeron:
✤ What would the world be like if everyone were the same---average in intelligence, talents, appearance, and strength-- and no one was better than everyone else?
✤ How do you think people would feel and act towards one another?
✤ Would people be happy and satisfied being equal and all the same?
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Brainstorm Questions about Harrison Bergeron
✤ Name the advantages of everyone being the same--exactly average.
✤ Name the disadvantage of everyone one being the same--exactly average.
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Drawing Conclusions with Harrison Bergeron
✤ Drawing Conclusions:
✤ Making judgements based on the story details and previous experiences in your own life
✤ Fill out the following worksheet:
✤ Details about society: what’s happening in the story
✤ “My Reactions” your reactions to the story
✤ Take note to the results from the society’s practices and law
✤ Apply your own knowledge to figure out why societies officials act the way they do.
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Vocabulary Study for Harrison Bergeron
✤ Vigilance:
✤ alert attention, watchfulness
✤ Sentence: The teacher exercised vigilance as the students crossed the street
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Vocabulary Study for Harrison Bergeron
✤ Wince:
✤ to shrink or flinch involuntarily, especially in pain
✤ Sentence: most people wince when getting a shot
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Vocabulary Study for Harrison Bergeron
✤ Consternation:
✤ confused amazement or fear
✤ Sentence: The thought of the ordeal filled her with consternation.
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Vocabulary Study for Harrison Bergeron
✤ Cower:
✤ to crouch down in fear
✤ Sentence: The girl cowered in the corner.
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Vocabulary Study for Harrison Bergeron
✤ Synchronize:
✤ to match the timing of
✤ Sentence: Let’s synchronize our watches
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Vocabulary Study for Harrison Bergeron
✤ Neutralize:
✤ to counteract or cancel the effect of
✤ Sentence: Preventive measures helped neutralize the impact of the storm
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Vocabulary: Vigilance
✤ What is the purpose of the Handicapper General agents vigilance?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Draw Conclusions:
✤ Add this to your drawing conclusions chart:
✤ Write your opinion of the society
✤ Reread lines 1-22 underline details that describe society in 2081
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Vocabulary: Wince:
✤ Why did two of the ballerina’s wince at the same time as George?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Draw Conclusions:
✤ Reread lines 29-49
✤ Circle words and phrases that how how the society affect the thoughts and reactions of the people
✤ What can you conclude about the different ways in which people are affected by the society?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Plot and Conflict:
✤ George’s thoughts in lines 61-63 reveal more about the conflict between Harrison and the society
✤ On the basis of what you’ve read so far, what behavior might be viewed as abnormal or illegal
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Draw Conclusions:
✤ Reread lines 76-90
✤ Underline George’s reasons for not lightening his handicap bag
✤ What are his beliefs about the society?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Pause and Reflect:
✤ Notice the difficulties Hazel and George experience in simply trying to have a conversation
✤ What point does this help reinforce about the society?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Draw Conclusions:
✤ Circle words and phrases in lines 99-112 that tell you more about the society
✤ How do the rules of the society affect peoples job performance?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Plot and Conflict:
✤ The rising action begins in lines 117-121
✤ What do you learn about the conflict between Harrison and the society?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Plot and Conflict:
✤ Reread lines 161-177
✤ Circle statements that reveal how Harrison views himself in relation to other people
✤ How do his views put him in conflict with the government?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Pause and Reflect:
✤ The ballerina and the musician risk punishment by cooperating with Harrison
✤ Why would they take such a risk?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Draw Conclusions:
✤ Underline words and phrases in lines 200-213 that indicate how the narrator views this rebellion against the laws
✤ The describe this view in your own words
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Plot and Conflict:
✤ Reread lines 214-221
✤ How is the conflict resolved?
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Harrison Bergeron Interactive Reading Questions:
✤ Pause and Reflect:
✤ How do George and Hazel react to their sons death?
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Relate Harrison Bergeron To Self
✤ Would you be happier if no one were better (or worse) than anyone else? Why?
✤ Where do we see this type of behavior in our society?
✤ How would this affect us if it was our society?
✤ Positive why?
✤ Negative why?
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Relate Harrison Bergeron to The Hunger Games
✤ What can we see that’s the same so far between The Hunger Games and Harrison Bergeron? Why?
✤ What’s different between Harrison Bergeron and The Hunger Games? Why?
✤ What characters in Harrison Bergeron and The Hunger Games seem similar?
✤ Yet how do they differ?
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Utopian& Dystopian Society
✤ Would we qualify Harrison Bergeron to be Dystopian? Why or Why not?
✤ Would we qualify Harrison Bergeron to be Utopian? Why or Why not?
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Homework: Journal Entry
✤ Use either “Talking to The Text” or “SQ3R” while reading for homework tonight. Post notes in Journal Entry
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