The Girl Who Was On Fire (261 Pages)

This is a book that teachers might want to use as a series of discussions about the Hunger Games. 16 YA authors have contributed to this book, and they cover a wide territory of ideas. There is a chapter about the political messages in The Hunger Games; there is a chapter explaining  the importance and meaning of the characters' names in The Hunger Games; there is a chapter about the importance of fashion  in The Hunger Games; there is a chapter explaining "Game Theory" in The Hunger Games; and there is a chapter on the scientific information in The Hunger Games! SO, each chapter is an essay written by various writers about the ideas they formed from reading this series of books by Suzanne Collins. I leave it to each of you to decide whether your students can handle reading this book. It could really be fun to have different students each take a different chapter and bring it to the attention of the class as a panel discussion....You could do much with this book. I found it fascinating! The book is edited by Leah Wilson, and although I was only familiar with a few of the authors, their writing is wonderful. Wouldn't this make an interesting "cross curriculum" piece of work? Can you see a panel consisting of a science teacher, a social studies teacher, an English teacher, a math teacher, an art teacher, and a phys ed teacher- each taking a different section of the book to discuss with the students? WOW! Other teachers read for enjoyment??? Who knew?!