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Hunger Games.  Legooooo!

2/26/2013

 
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Paragraph #1: How is everybody?  What's going on in your life right now?  Share one positive experience or story about you right now.  (Something that we will be interested in reading about and want to know more about).

Paragraph #2: Discuss how much you know about the Hunger Games.  Have you read the book?  Have you read Catching Fire and Mockingjay? Have you seen the movie?  Have you heard of the book?  Have you heard of the storyline?  How did you heard about the book?  What is your interest level in the story having read it or having heard about it?  Are you a fanatic? 

Afterward, respond to everybody else's blog post.  Especially comment

Divergent Fun Facts

2/5/2013

 
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Directions: Read through following blog post by the author of Divergent, Veronica Roth.  Here she discusses her frustrations with writing (Insurgent more specifically). 

http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/2010/08/dear-veronica-freaking-jump-already.html

In one paragraph, talk about what you learned about writing a novel from her entire blog post.  Then, read through the Divergent Fun Facts.  In two more paragraphs (5 sentences each), choose two to talk about. 

Divergent Fun Facts
1. Tris' mother was patterned after Veronica Roth's mother (author). Thoughts, etc.

2. When taking the aptitude test, you cannot be given the options of Amity and Dauntless.  Thoughts, etc.

3. The character of Tobias was created based off of the author's favorite character on Animorphs.  Thoughts, etc.

4. Book Three comes out in the Fall.  Direction, etc.

5. The movie Divergent comes out in March of 2014.  Casting, etc.

Link for another day on writing Divergent:
http://veronicarothbooks.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-10-19T18:52:00-05:00&max-results=7&&by-date=false


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