Gr. 7 students should be knee-deep in some futuristic world run by some tyrannical dictatorship. Most have chosen to follow Katniss Everdeen in
Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. Lois Lowry’s The Giver and John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids are also engaging our readers. Once the texts have been read, students will be creating a newspaper or magazine for the dystopian world of their novel.
