1. If each of these objects was a person, what would you expect their personality to be like?

2. Reading Quiz
5 minutes

3. The Hunger Games: Chapters 1-3

4. All the information we learn about Panem is told to us from the viewpoint of Katniss.
What are the key points we discover about the society of Panem?

5. District 12
The Town:
The Seam

6. Hunting//The Fence

7. Katniss’s Father

8. Katniss’s Mother

9. Peacekeepers//Speaking Against Gov’t

10. The Reaping
Unfair?

11. Gale

12. Prim

13. Effie Trinket

14. The History

15. Haymitch

16. Prim is chosen Reaction of Audience Reaction of Katniss
Audience’s Response to Katniss

17. Peeta

18. The Dandelion

19. Visitors
Who comes?

20. Who watches the games as entertainment? Why?

21. Muttations

22. Mockingjays

23. Manners
Effie Trinket’s comment
Katniss’s response

24. Why do you think the writer chose to name Katniss Everdeen after this plant?
What does the name suggest about her character?
Extension – Why do you think the writer chose the names Gale and Primrose for the other main characters we have met so far?

25. Is Katniss a typical Dystopian Protagonist?
The Dystopian Protagonist
• often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
• questions the existing social and political systems.
• believes or feels that something is terribly wrong with the society in which he or she lives.
• helps the audience recognizes the negative aspects of the dystopian world through his or her perspective.

26. • Propaganda is used to control the citizens of society.
• Information and independent thought are restricted.
• A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.
• Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.
• Citizens have a fear of the outside world.
• Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
• The natural world is banished and distrusted.
• Citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality and dissent are bad.
• The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world.