Catching Fire Lesson Plan

Our World to Theirs: Part 2

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

To imagine how America could have become Panem in the world of the novel

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3

Structure:

Divide the class into the same groups there were in for part one of this exercise. Each team has been assigned a natural or manmade disaster that could have befallen North America to turn it from the modern world we know into Panem. Each member of the team is responsible for writing a blog post in the form of a contemporary news articles describing the disaster they've been assigned and it's aftermath. For example, if the disaster were a nuclear disaster that knocked out...