Lesson Plan 2P Apr 11 – The Hunger Games

Specific expectations Learning intentions Success criteria Instructional and/or learning strategies Assessment tools

Strand B: Reading Today I will... I will be successful when... Hook (15 minutes) Description

1.4 Making Inferences Review the meaning of I can explain “utopia” and Song: “Banana Pancakes” by Jack Johnson (5 Group Discussion Recap
1.5 Extending “utopia” and “dystopia” “dystopia” in my own words minutes) ✔ For ✔ Teacher/Student
Understanding of Texts Explain how song connects to unit
1.6 Analysing Texts Consider how “utopia” I can describe how they fit or don’t Remind students about the song sign-up sheet Creating Utopia Activity
and “dystopia” apply to fit with the novel ✔ As ✔ Teacher/Student
The Hunger Games Recap: Ch. 1 and “Utopias” and “Dystopias”
I can create my own vision of a Group Discussion recapping what we learned on Whipebook Word Cloud
Understand how “utopia” “perfect society” Tuesday ✔ Of ✔ Student
can apply to the real
world

Strand C: Writing Creating Utopias (45 minutes)

1.2 Generating and Reading Ch. 2 (15 minutes)

Developing Ideas Read for 15 min. (all or part of Ch. 2)
1.4 Organizing Ideas Creating Utopias (35 min)
4.1 Metacognition Students work on creating their own “perfect
society”

Differentiation: Teacher circulates for

understanding, students can complete the task at
any level based on their own skills and interests,
can be completed by hand or on Chromebook

Closure (10 minutes)

Society Word Cloud (10 minutes)

Share key features of our utopias

Record similarities as a word cloud on a group

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