7A-+Literature

Week 1- Research Your Author: Your job is to figure out what your author is like as a person. Where they grew up? What they studied in school? What inspired them to write? After you find and write on the Wiki 10 interesting facts about your author, write a paragraph making a connection between the authors life and the novel you are reading.

For example: Facts: 1. Suzanne Collins enjoys greek mythology. 2. Her father was in Vietnam. 3.... 4.... 5....

As I researched Suzanne Collins the author of __The Hunger Games,__ I discovered that she really enjoys Greek mythology. She uses some of greek mythology to help write the book. She based the idea of The Games off of the story of Theseus. In this story young greeks are sent to fight the Minotaur, and of course they always loose. Also, when Suzanne Collins was young her father fought in Vietnam. This was a very emotional time for her, she had a constant fear that her father would not return. These are two obvious facts that helped inspire the book. You can see that these inspired her book because...

Week 2- Interview Your Protagonist: Your job this week is to conduct an interview with your main character. You need to ask them 5 questions about their life, their experiences, anything. I want to you think about your character as a person, not just as words in a book. Imagine what they would be like if they were sitting next to you. After you come up with your questions then you need to answer them as your character!

Example: 1. Me: Katniss, I really liked your idea with the berries at the end of The Hunger Games. Where do you think you learned your creative ways? Katniss: Well, Mr. Gonzalez, I have always had to count on my wits to get by. Ever since my father died in the mine accident it was up to me to keep my mother and Prim alive. I had to be creative in how I survived. This creativity has helped me make quick survival decisions in the past, from running and climbing trees to preparing myself to eat the nightlock in the games.

Week 3- What is the theme of your novel? You must use 3 quotes from the novel to support your theme.