Monday, April 30, 2012

Hunger Games Wordle Explained

1. What is the purpose of your poem? What mood, message or point are you trying to make? The point which I am trying to make is that the idea behind the hunger games. Tributes participate in a competition which is a fight to the death to win food and such for their district. The winner is able to return to their family and friends, whereas the defeated are dead and therefore unable to return to family and friends, at least not alive. This is my reasoning for placing the such words in the wordle as the words are things such as Katniss and her friends as well as the basic concept behind the games themselves. 2. What did you do to create this purpose? Discuss your word choice and your decision on the size of particular words in comparison to other words. How I created this purpose is through the particular use of particular words. I used the names of Katniss' friends such as Gale to show that this is perhaps one of the reasons that she wants to return home, other than simply just not being brutally murdered in the games 3. Did you like using Wordle? Come up with other possible uses of Wordle inside and outside of English class. I suppose that the use of wordle was alright, and their is really not another way to do something like this in another simple manner. Another use of wordle could be some sort of assisting method for an alternate project. For example if one is doing a project on Nuclear fusion, he/she could include words such as hydrogen bomb, nuclear reaction, fusion, fusing, and the radioactive.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Significant Characteristic

I am currently reading the novel entitled The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. An important characteristic is the location itself, as the what is happening here would not occur at this point in our reality. This makes for a very significant characteristic as this shows us that it is a very different world.

Another important characteristic in this novel is the main character herself, Katniss. Without her, there would not be much of a story, as her younger sister would have been sent to the hunger games and would have realistically been killed very quickly. This would make for an unexciting story, as it would have a pathetically fast and most likely not have much of a real plot line, in terms of her victory.