The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Lesson plans and teaching resources

In this week-long unit, students use evidence from the text to infer what might have led to the creation of Panem. This downloadable free curriculum uses online resources including Glogster, requires agreement with (reasonable) Terms & Conditions.

Booktalk and discussion questions for each novel, 8 questions for comparing the novels, historical and literary connections, related titles, and author biography. 12 pages, Adobe Reader required.

How to host a food drive at your school.

A variety of reading strategies for the novel, including an anticipation guide, a graphic organizer focusing on cause and effect, vocabulary support, and more. Adobe Reader required for access.

Study guide questions for chapters 1-7.

The video clip is from the movie trailer. The prompt for grades 6-8 focuses on the concept of sacrifice; the one for 9-12, on political and social commentary.

Words are presented in context and with definitions. Click on a word for pronunciation, synonyms, examples of use, more.

Four tasks to support study of the novel. The tasks are part of a webquest.

Activities include pre-reading questions, mapmaking, advertising, writing a poem or song, writing a letter to the president, and more.

A collection of approaches to the novel that use resources from The New York Times.

Students use the Visual Thesaurus to help them categorize words from the first chapter of The Hunger Games as a means to predict the novel's central themes. Then, after reading the chapter, students analyze those same words in the context of the novel.

A thorough set of resources, including project plan and calendar, entry events, workshops, rubrics, and a group contract. Theme was "Controlling Factors, 鈥� in which students learned about the global economic crisis of the pre-World War II era, how it led to the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that arose out of those conditions, and then drew parallels to similar fictional themes in the novel".

This nonfiction article offers an overview of dystopian fiction and summaries of several well known dystopian works from Jules Verne to The Hunger Games .

This TED-ED video (4:34) outlines Campbell's monomyth or hero's journey, with special emphasis on Katniss Everdeen. Captioned, includes follow-up questions.