Students often love the opportunity to write creatively, as it offers a change of pace and form from the critical analysis of paragraph and essay writing.
This logic also applies to teachers, as reading and marking creative pieces often provides a similarly welcome change.
Here are five ideas for creative writing assignments you can use while teaching The Hunger Games:
Creating Dystopian Societies
In this lesson, students will explore the themes of government control, power, and rebellion in The Hunger Games. They will use this understanding to create their own dystopian society, complete with a government and set of rules, as well as a resistance movement. They will then write a short story set in their created society.
Writing from a Different Perspective
In this lesson, students will choose a character from The Hunger Games and write a short story or journal entry from that character’s perspective. This will help them develop empathy and understanding for the characters in the book and encourage them to think critically about their actions and motivations.
The Hunger Games as a Metaphor
In this lesson, students will explore the metaphor of the Hunger Games as a commentary on real-world issues such as poverty, class struggle, and survival. They will then write a persuasive essay arguing how the Hunger Games is a metaphor for a specific real-world issue.
Adapting The Hunger Games
In this lesson, students will watch the film adaptation of The Hunger Games and compare it to the book. They will then write their own script for a scene from the book, imagining how they would adapt it for the screen. This will help students understand the process of adapting a story for different mediums and will encourage them to think creatively.
Survival Skills
In this lesson, students will study the survival skills used by the characters in The Hunger Games, such as hunting, tracking, and shelter building. They will then use this knowledge to write a short story or journal entry about a survival situation they imagine themselves in. This lesson will encourage students to think critically about the importance of survival skills and how they can be applied in real life.
For more creative assignments to use with The Hunger Games, check out these 11 creative projects.
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