Showing posts with label Student Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Student Saturday. Show all posts

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Student Saturday: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins



Student Reviewer:  Lexie L.

-300 years in the future, what we call the U.S.A today is now Panem. This story follows a 16-year-old girl named Katness Everdeen in district 12 of 13. However, district 13 was destroyed. Katness faces the struggles of Panem’s oppressive government and extreme poverty that came with it. Her hair is a deep brown, almost always in her signature braids, she has a narrow figure, and piercing gray eyes. She has a sister named Prim and she would protect her with her life, and she has. Katness learned from a young age how to use a bow, though against the law, to hunt food for her family beyond the fence of where the district was divided. This would come in handy later in her life. In this time period the capital of Panem would take one girl and one boy from each district and put them in an arena where they would fight to the death leaving one soul winner. This would happen once a year, every year. When Prim, Katness’s little sister, was old enough to participate in this “game” she was unlucky picked to compete. As soon as this happened Katness raised her hand and shouted at the top of her lungs “I volunteer. I VOLUNTEER AS A TRIBUTE!” She was then taken to the capital with a boy who was picked named Peta Melark. They were interviewed and asked question their entire stay at the capital. When in came to be the day of the games they all were released into the dome with the cornucopia in the center of the arena. Read the book to find out what happens once the games begin.

-I really loved the way the author portrayed the thoughts and feeling of the character using body language as a key factor to understand what a player’s demeanor was. All the intense detail and world building had me on the edge on my seat while reading this incredible story. It truly holds a deeper meaning and comments on our society today. I cried a lot while reading this book. Overall, this is a remarkable story for anyone who likes futuristic timelines, fear, drama, overthrowing oppressive governments, justice, etc.

-I highly recommend this book,

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Student Saturdays

Student Saturdays are back.  Starting this Saturday, September 17 I will put up the first of many reviews written by my students about the books they have read.  Please be kind as these are middle school students around the age of 11 or 12.  Please be kind with your responses.  So what do you have to look forward to?
So far I have scheduled reviews for the following books:

Dovey Coe by Katherine Paterson on 9/17
Heaven by Angela Johnson on 9/24
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen  on  10/2
The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan  on 10/8
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass   on 10/15
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg  on 10/22
Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman  on  10/29
Scat by Carl Hiaasen  on 11/5