{"id":20353,"date":"2014-05-15T14:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T10:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=20353"},"modified":"2014-05-15T20:33:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:33:33","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/05\/15\/the-hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 7 are currently reading &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217;, a popular dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins. As they are also doing a &#8216;Writer&#8217;s Workshop&#8217;, we\u00a0decided to take a close look at how Collins writes in terms of sentence types and structure, whilst not ignoring her\u00a0choice of language. Our young English scholars\u00a0found this approach interesting, as it connects their learning in class to\u00a0a living author. In case you&#8217;re interested, I have attached a link to a Prezi (a slideshow made using Prezi software) on the topic of Dystopia. Students have viewed\u00a0this in preparation for their creative task. \u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/ixrnzojjcuyp\/dystopian-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/<span class=\"il\" style=\"color: #222222;\">prezi<\/span>.com\/ixrnzojjcuyp\/<wbr \/>dystopian-literature\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2014\/05\/the-hunger-games\/screen-shot-2014-05-15-at-14-02-42\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20354\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20354 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-15-at-14.02.42.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-05-15 at 14.02.42\" width=\"504\" height=\"764\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-15-at-14.02.42.png 504w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-15-at-14.02.42-197x300.png 197w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 504px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 504\/764;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade 7 are currently reading &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217;, a popular dystopian novel by Suzanne Collins. As they are also doing a &#8216;Writer&#8217;s Workshop&#8217;, we\u00a0decided to take a close look at how Collins writes in terms of sentence types and structure, whilst not ignoring her\u00a0choice of language. Our young English scholars\u00a0found this approach interesting, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":20354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}