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Due : Essay #2 and we start

anew!

New teams today!

Vocabulary practice

Discussion: Ngo

Ngo: focused concept: definitions;

classifications

Writing, if time permits!

AGENDA

Form new teams of 4 or 5 members

You must change at least half of your team after each essay.

You may never have a new team composed of more than 50% of any prior team.

Raise your hand if you need help forming a complete team

The Game

Discuss the words on the next slide for three minutes and prepare to compete

Each team will send one member to the board in rotation. Everybody must take a turn in rotation.

I will read a definition. The first team member to write the correct definition on the board scores a point for their team.

Teams earn participation points for each correct answer Today we will carry points forward to the discussion

portion of class. The team with the highest score at the end of the class earns not only the glory of winning but also five additional participation points.

Ngo: “Cannibalism: It Still Exists”

Discuss this essay with your

teammates (5-7 minutes)

and answer the following

questions.

First, briefly summarize the story

What is the concept about which Ngo writes?

Which extended anecdote does Ngo use to

help explain the concept?

What is his thesis?

How does he define and classify his concept?

Which are Categories? What are the

Types?

Find examples of each of his classified

concepts.

How does he define his concept?

Brief Summary and Concept

Extended Anecdote

Extended Anecdote

Thesis and classification: categories and types

Thesis and Classifications

Definitions

Definitions

Exemplification

ExemplificationEndocannibalism Exocannibalism

• Survival: Vietnamese boat refugees o Ate people as they died on the

boat

• Dietary: Miyanmin (both types really)o Eats their own dead and catches

outsiders

• Religious/Ritual: African tribe of the Bimin-Kuskusmino Eat parts of genitalia to enhance

reproductivity

• Survival: Japanese troops’ supply lines cuto Sacrificed Arapesh people to feed

troops

• Dietary: Leopard people; Alligator peopleo Hunt victims

• Religious/Ritual: Bangalas and South American Tribeso To honor those held in high-

esteem, they sacrifice slaves and captives

Ngo has written a concept essay

about cannibalism

Use this essay as a model for you own!

The Concept Essay

• Topic: Write an essay about a concept from The Hunger Games that interests you and that you want to study further. When you have a good understanding of the concept you have chosen, explain it to your readers, considering carefully what they might already know about it and how your essay might add to what they know.

Essay #3

3-5 pages

125 points possible

MLA-style formatting and

citations

Works Cited page must

include three entries: The

Hunger Games, A

Dictionary or other

defining source, and a

book or article from a

credible source.

Consider two topics from The Hunger

Games for your essay.

Hunger, Cold, Friendship, Safety, Justice, Fair play, Class, Game, Play, Power, Identity, Strength,

Competition, Sacrifice, Spectacle, Schadenfreude (happiness derived

from others’ misfortunes), Fear, Privilege, Equality, Legal, Skill, or?

Write paragraphs

for those concepts,

sketching out what

you already know!

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Read: HG through chapter 17

Study: Vocab (10-18)

Post # 21

Finish and post your concept paragraphs.

find two different definitions for one of your

concepts.

Your Friday class will focus on other concept

essays!