Name ___________________________________________
Date _________________________
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Hunger Games Character Review Packet
Due Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Content Standard(s): LRA 3.3 – Analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text (e.g., internal and external
conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences) and explain the way those interactions affect the plot; LRA 3.4 – Determine characters’ traits by
what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy.
ESLR: Resourceful Learners – Think critically; study effectively
Rationale: As a reader, it is important to be able to identify characters’ traits and motivations from their appearances, private thoughts,
conversations with other characters, actions, and relationships with others. Not only will you be asked to do this on the CAHSEE and your other
English tests this year, but this skill will help you to become a better reader and to develop a better understanding of the works you read.
Assignment 1 – Personal Stickman
Due Thursday, 15 September 2011
Directions: Complete the Stickman graphic organizer about yourself by filling in two character traits and one piece of
evidence for each of the seven categories. (This means you should have 21 things written in your graphic organizer.)
Once you have completed the graphic organizer, answer the questions on the back of the page in complete sentences.
Grade: __________ / 25
Assignment 2 – Character Double Bubble Maps
Due at the end of class on Thursday, 15 September 2011
Directions: As we work together in class, recreate your own double bubble maps with information about four of the
characters in The Hunger Games. Be sure to do a good job – you will be using this for tomorrow’s assignment!
Grade: __________ / 25
Assignment 3 – Literary Terms Practice
Due Friday, 16 September 2011
Directions: Answer each of the questions according to the directions. You may want to use your notes from Tuesday to
help you!
Grade: __________ / 25
Assignment 4 – Hunger Games Stickman
Due Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Directions: Complete the Stickman graphic organizer about one of the characters we completed a double bubble map
for on Thursday. You must fill in two character traits and one piece of evidence (this should be a quotation from the
book) for each of the seven categories. (This means you should have 21 things written in your graphic organizer.) Once
you have completed the graphic organizer, answer the questions on the back of the page in complete sentences.
Grade: __________ / 25
Assignment 5 – Flow Map
Due Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Directions: Create a flow map that demonstrates the cause and effect relationship of a character’s action from Hunger
Games. You may choose any character’s action you’d like (you don’t have to pick Katniss). To adequately demonstrate
your understanding of the action, its causes, and its effects, you will need to include one action, a minimum of three
causes, and a minimum of three effects. At the bottom of your map, write an explanation of your map (minimum of two
sentences).
Grade: __________ / 25
Overall Grade: __________ / 125
Assignment 1 – Personal Stickman
1. Choose any of the character traits from your Stickman, and fill in the blank below to create an example
of direct characterization.
I am _______________________________________________________________________________.
2. Using the same character trait from #1, write an example of indirect characterization. (This is when
you show your reader that you have this trait without actually saying the word. For example, if my
character trait is “strong,” my example of indirect characterization would be “I lift weights for half an
hour every day.”)
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3. If my life was a story, I would be an example of a flat / round (choose one) character because _______
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4. If my life was a story, I would be an example of a static / dynamic (choose one) character because ___
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5. Choose one of your actions from the “What S/he Did” category on your Stickman. What was your
motivation for your action? (In other words, what is the reason you did it?)
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Assignment 2 – Character Double Bubble Maps
Directions: Create two double bubble maps to demonstrate the similarities and differences between two sets
of characters in Hunger Games. While we work together as a class to begin the maps, be sure you are
transcribing them on this paper. Whatever we don’t finish in class will need to be finished as homework, so
make sure you pay attention. Each map needs a minimum of five characteristics for each character and a
minimum of three shared characteristics for each pair.
Map One: Katniss and Peeta
Map Two: Haymitch and Cato
Assignment 3 – Literary Terms Practice
Part 1 – Identifying Examples
Directions: Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence.
1. Who is the protagonist of The Hunger Games?
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2. Who is the antagonist in The Hunger Games? (Note: There may be multiple antagonists!)
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3. Name three subordinate characters in The Hunger Games.
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4. Which of the tributes might be considered a stock character? (Hint: Is there a tribute who is only strong and
competitive without another side to him/her?)
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5. Which of the stylists might be considered a stock character? (Hint: Is there a stylist who is only concerned
about his/her appearance or other unimportant things?)
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Part 2 – Identifying Character Traits
Directions: For each of the following examples, identify whether it is an example of direct characterization or indirect
characterization (look at your notes from Tuesday to help you!), and then identify a character trait that the passage
reveals.
6. Haymitch Abernathy, a paunchy (def: potbellied), middle-aged man, who at this moment appears hollering
something unintelligible, staggers onto the stage, and falls into the third chair. He’s drunk. Very.
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Haymitch is
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7. After Prim is selected as a tribute from District 12, Katniss jumps forward and gasps, “I volunteer! . . . I
volunteer as tribute!”
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Katniss is
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8. When Katniss is starving, she tries to steal bread from the trash outside the baker’s house and gets in
trouble. A few moments later, she hears a crash and screaming and sees Peeta come outside with burned
bread and a red mark on his face. Shortly after, “The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that
the coast was clear, then, his attention back on the pig, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction. The second
quickly followed, and he sloshed back to the bakery, closing the kitchen door tightly behind him.”
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Peeta is
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9. Suddenly I am furious that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me.
That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig. My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without
thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table. I hear shouts of
alarm as people scramble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall
behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief.
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Katniss is
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10. After Rue dies, Katniss thinks, “I want to do something right here, right now, to shame [the people in the
Capitol], to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a
part of every tribute they can’t own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.” Then,
she covers Rue’s body in flowers.
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Katniss is
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11. After Thresh kills Clove, he turns to Katniss and finds out that she was friends with Rue. He says, “Just this
one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?”
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Thresh is
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12. Brutal, bloody Cato who can snap a neck with a twist of his arm, who had the power to overcome Thresh,
who has had it out for me since the beginning.
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Cato is
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13. I haven’t even begun to separate out my feelings about Peeta. It’s too complicated. What I did as part of the
Games. As opposed to what I did out of anger at the Capitol. Or because of how it would be viewed back in
District 12. Or simply because it was the only decent thing to do. Or what I did because I cared about him.
This is an example of direct characterization / indirect characterization (choose one).
This passage reveals that Katniss is
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Assignment 4 – Hunger Games Stickman
1. Choose any of the character traits from your Stickman, and fill in the blank below to create an example
of direct characterization.
__________ is _______________________________________________________________________.
2. Using the same character trait from #1, write an example of indirect characterization. (This is when
you show a character trait without actually saying the word. For example, if my character trait for
Cinna is “creative,” my example of indirect characterization would be “Cinna creates a dress for
Katniss that makes her appear as though she is on fire.”)
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3. _______________ is an example of a flat / round (choose one) character because _________________
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4. _______________ is an example of a static / dynamic (choose one) character because _____________
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5. Choose one of your actions from the “What S/he Did” category on your Stickman. What was your
character’s motivation for doing that action? (In other words, what is the reason he/she did it?)
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Assignment 5 – Flow Map
Directions: Create a flow map that demonstrates the cause and effect relationship of a character’s action from
The Hunger Games. You may choose any character’s action you’d like (you don’t have to pick Katniss). To
adequately demonstrate your understanding of the action, its causes, and its effects, you will need to include
one action, a minimum of three causes, and a minimum of three effects. At the bottom of your map, write an
explanation of your map (minimum of two sentences).