Students for the most part appeared engaged in the assigned activity.
Students have been reading the novel The Hunger Games and using Minecraft demonstrated their understanding of the novel's setting and it's importance to the novel and the character(s) involved. In addition to creating the scene setting, they included supporting passages/words and a written explanation of their recreated setting. Below I have included some student examples.
Example 1:
The Reaping
Example 2:
“Somehow make it back to the cave” pg 289
“I cover the floor of the cave with pine needles “ pg 260
Example 3:
1. The two passages from the text that describe elements of the setting that I will recreate are from Chapter 12, page 148.
Below is an example of this student's selected passages. In addition, to his additional written response this student included a legend.
Passage #1: “Sixty seconds to take in the ring of tributes all equidistant from the Cornucopia, a giant golden horn shaped like a cone with a curved tail, the mouth of which is at least twenty feet high, spilling over the things that will give us life here in the arena. Food, containers of water, weapons, medicines, garments, fire starters. Strewn around the Cornucopia are other supplies, their value decreasing the farther away they are from the horn.”
Passage # 2: “We’re on a flat, open stretch of ground. A plain of hard packed dirt. Behind the tributes across from me, I can see nothing, indicating either a steep downward slope or even a cliff. To my left and back, sparse piney woods.”
Example 4:
Bird's Eye View of the Cornucopia The Forest
The Lake
The Cornucopia
In this following example, these two students were excited and went all out.
Example 5:
