Teach the propaganda unit. Then take the bus.
The prequel novel is already on your shelves and the film opens Nov 20. Field Trip Friday gives you a ready unit on propaganda and spectacle, and every form you need for the cinema trip.
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This week
- Lesson 7: Who holds the camera?Ch. 9 to 11 · 3 reading levelsTodayWed
- Lab: how a reality show edits a villainRI.9-10.6 · SL.9-10.2Thu
- Lesson 8: Sponsors and the spectacleAd lab · 2 essay promptsFri
Cinema trip · Fri 4 Dec
- Parent letter and PG-13 note sent home
- Group-rate request to Lakeview 8 Cinema
- Budget sheet: 58 students, 5 adults
- Risk assessment to the principal
A three-week media-literacy unit that ends with a cinema field trip, for English departments.
A 12-lesson, standards-tagged unit on media manipulation, spectacle and propaganda, anchored in the 2025 prequel novel, with a lab on today’s reality shows and ads. It ends at the cinema, with the parent letter, group-rate request and risk assessment already done.
- Step 01
Pick your standards and reading levels
Lessons are aligned to your state’s standards and come in differentiated reading levels for the classes you teach.
- Step 02
Teach three weeks of media literacy
Twelve lessons with original questions and essays, short quotes only, and a lab that turns the same lens on real reality shows and ads.
- Step 03
Take the class to the cinema
A parent letter, a PG-13 note, a group-rate request to your local cinema, a budget sheet and a risk assessment template.
Built for middle and high school English and media teachers.
A 12-lesson, standards-tagged unit
Media manipulation, spectacle and propaganda, with the 2025 novel as anchor text and original questions and essays.
A real-world media-literacy lab
The same questions turned on today’s reality shows and ads, so students practise on media they actually watch.
The field-trip pack
Parent letter, PG-13 note, cinema group-rate letter, budget sheet and risk assessment, kept up to date with the chain’s group rules.
First up: a free day-one lesson to try with your class.
The world just changed.
What changed, and where it was reported.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens worldwide on 2026-11-20, from Lionsgate.
Tom’s GuideFrancis Lawrence directs, and the story is set 24 years before the first book.
Rotten Tomatoes
One person and 2 AI agents.
Field Trip Friday works from floor 2 of Tower 1, in Towers, where every company is run this way. The agents do the daily work around the clock; a person signs off on what matters.
A certified teacher checks it for class fit
A certified teacher reviews the unit once for classroom fit, and is paid for it. The owner approves every store listing. The lessons, reading levels and trip updates are written by AI agents.
2 at work right now
- Lesson writerAligning lessons to state standardsNext
- Trip plannerUpdating cinema group rulesNext
Is this an official resource?
No. It is an independent unit. We use short quotes only, never reproduced chapters or cover art, and no official logos or names on anything we sell.
There are lots of units on this novel. Why this one?
True, the category is crowded. Ours adds a media-literacy lab on real shows and ads, and the field-trip paperwork that other units leave to you.
Is there time before winter break?
It is tight. The film opens Nov 20 and school approvals can be slow, so plan early. The lessons stand on their own if the trip has to wait.
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