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A Story On Fire…..
Unit Theme: Analyzing social justice through the lens of dystopic literature. This will involve social justice issues of hunger, violence, and forced war; how has post-nation literature framed potential outcomes for our civilization?
Unit Goals: Students will be able to identify social justice tropes through dystopic literature. There will be discussion on why the Capital utilizes reality-television to broadcast the Hunger Games across the country and why this occurs; differences of how external forces influence citizens in District 12 and cause issues of hunger and involuntary labor. We will draw connections between the fictional dystopia of The Hunger Games to poverty, violence, and war within the United States.
Grade level: Eleventh Grade (Juniors)
Common Core State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3
Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
Social Justice Standards: social standards pdf
ID.9-12.3 “I know that all my group identities and the intersection of those identities create unique aspects of who I am and that this is true for other people too.”
DI.9-12.10 “I understand that diversity includes the impact of unequal power relations on the development of group identities and cultures.”
JU.9-12.13 “I can explain the short and long-term impact of biased words and behaviors and unjust practices, laws, and institutions that limit the rights and freedoms of people based on their identity groups.”
Meet the Author
Suzanne Collins
Social Justice in The Hunger Games 