Essay

The Haunting is an essay that I wrote, about a book by Margaret Mahy 2 weeks ago. Before we wrote the essay, we had started reading the book during teacher reading. Then we all got a chapter from which we had to highlight and copy onto google docs, information and quotes about the characters. From the notes we chose 3 characters. I chose Barney (the main character), Tabitha (Barney's older sister) and Great-Uncle-Guy (his name explains it all). Some of the characters didn't have enough notes so it was hard to write about them. We had to explain the characters personalities and say how they predicted the plot (we made a prediction). Once I wrote my essay, I decided to decorate it with a cool title font and bats :). Because it was

about a boy being haunted, I thought it

suited the theme.

The Hunger Games!

Katniss Everdeen

The Hunger Games is a creative book written by Suzanne Collins. The book is set in a dystopian future where the country Panem is split into 13 Districts. Each District provides The Capitol with resources. Every year each District must provide one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to be put into an arena to fight to the death. This is for the entertainment of the Capitol and to remind the Districts of the Dark Days, when The Districts uprised against the Capitol. 12 Districts were defeated, the thirteenth destroyed. Now District 13 is gone. The Hunger Games is a symbol that makes people fear The Capitol, a symbol that reminds people that The Dark Days must never be repeated.

Primrose Everdeen

This year at The Reaping, District 12's Katniss Everdeen's name is going into the bowl 20 times. Her younger sister Primrose's name is going in once. At The Reaping District 12's escort, Effie Trinket pulls out a name from the boys bowl and the girls bowl. Howevers name she pulls out, that person will be going into The Hunger Games.

The book was recently made into a movie directed by Gary Ross. Jennifer Lawrence is playing Katniss Everdeen, Willow Shields is playing Primrose Everdeen and Elizabeth Banks is playing Effie Trinket.

I love The Hunger Games probably because it gets my attention. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put the book down! It has lots of cliff hangers, a bit of action, with a touch of romance.

Production

The production is over... but it was awesome! I loved it!!!!!! It went really well, the dances were awesome, people remembered their lines and we survived the quick changes :) Backstage I took lots of photos and videos along with other people. We ate loads of lollies :) Yum Luckily the audience laughed at the jokes, they may have over laughed... but at least it wasn't awkward. 
The teachers were awesome - The Bolgers, getting everyone ready, making sure people had their mics, directing the production and all that but most importantly, sending people out onto stage (in the dark!!) to estimate where to stand.
Props people did well and remembered where to put all the props (thank you Stephanie for helping me with my mic!!!!) 
Make up people did an awesome job on our faces!!! (Beth, Ella and Shanaea with a little help from Rosie, Sophia and Joanna :)) When they couldn't do our make-up, the teachers helped out by slopping on face paint to get ready for the Freaky Circus scene!

Thank you everyone!!! <3