SECOND LEVEL THIRD LEVEL FOURTH LEVEL LEARNING RESOURCES. Charlie Higson. Resource created by Jennifer Buchan

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1 LEARNING RESOURCES Charie Higson Resource created by Jennifer Buchan SECOND LEVEL THIRD LEVEL FOURTH LEVEL

2 Contents 2 About Charie Higson 3 Charie Higson Introductory Activities 3 The Enemy Activities for Primary (Leve 2) 6 The Enemy Activities for Secondary (Leves 3-4) 8 Siverfin Activities for Primary (Leve 2) 9 Siverfin Activities for Secondary (Leves 3-4) 11 Additiona Resources Charie Higson Charie Higson is the author of the hugey successfu Young Bond and The Enemy series. The series have now sod over a miion copies in the UK and has been transated into 24 different anguages. The new book, The Dead, is pubished in September 2010 and is the second in The Enemy series. Charie is a successfu actor, comedian and writer for teevision and radio, and has been writing books for chidren since Charie has aways been a fan of horror. Whie at university, he studied gothic iterature and took a fim course on horror. After studying at the University of East Angia, Charie formed a band, The Higsons. He then became a decorator before turning to the word of teevision. His successes incude Saturday Live, the Harry Enfied Teevision Programme, The Sme of Reeves and Mortimer, Shooting Stars and the Fast Show. The activities provided in this resource focus on two Higson noves: The Enemy (2009); and Siverfin (2005), the first in the Young Bond series. They are designed to be fun, engaging, cross-curricuar activities which shoud enhance the chidren s enjoyment of the author s work. Pease see the websites beow for further information about Higson and the two noves: the officia site for the nove, contains extracts and a traier for the nove as we as downoads and a picture gaery the officia site for the Young Bond series - website with games, gaery, interviews and information about a books in the series 2

3 Charie Higson Introductory Activities Use the information in the foowing websites to hep you find the words in the wordsearch found in Additiona Resource 1: and Introductory Activities Technoogy TCH 2-03b / TCH 2-04a / TCH 2-04b / TCH 3-04a) Read extracts from different Higson noves and find out about Bond characters at the foowing website: Higson has written a range of horror and action/adventure noves for young peope. Discuss other noves and authors of this genre that you have read What do they have in common? What do you enjoy about them? Woud you recommend any to a friend? Read interviews with Charie Higson at the foowing website: The Enemy Activities for Primary (Leve 2) INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES Look at the front and back cover of the nove. What can you te about: the genre the story the character the setting How does the cover make you fee? Woud you choose to read this nove if you picked it up in a ibrary or book shop? Expain your answer! Listen to the extract from the nove at the foowing ink: 3

4 DREADED DISEASE! Design your own grown-up disease. Think about how the disease wi affect: appearance behaviour actions of the grown-ups See how many simies and metaphors you can find to describe the aduts in The Enemy: Writing LIT 2-26a / LIT 2-27a / LIT 2-31a He had the famiiar ook of a vegetabe, or a piece of fruit, eft too ong in the sun. (p. 6) A fat itte father with useess egs hobbed out in a crouch, ike some horribe, ungainy frog. (p. 21) His face was so swoen with bois he ooked ike some ghasty sea creature, a puffer fish. (p. 129) One wore her underwear on the outside, ike some freakish superhero (p. 207) Write a paragraph describing the appearance, behaviour and actions of the grown-ups with your invented disease. Give your paragraph to a friend and see if s/he can draw an accurate picture using your description try to use simies and metaphors to hep your friend get a cear image in his/her head! REFUGE The chidren in the nove are constanty seeking to find refuge from the grown-ups in Waitrose, down aeyways, in the Tower of London, in Buckingham Paace In groups, discuss what made a good refuge for the chidren in the nove. Ideas might incude: a good ook-out spot access to food and water good security somewhere to seep Imagine you are eft to fend for yourseves with a group of friends. Think of a buiding in your own viage, town or city which woud make a good refuge. Think about how you coud convert different parts of the buiding to suit your needs. Draw a diagram and abe different parts of the buiding, expaining what they woud be used for. Expressive Arts Arts and Design EXA 2-02a / EXA 2-05a / EXA 2-06a 4

5 BIRTHDAY SURPRISE In pages , we earn that Oie is about to turn fourteen and is worried about catching the grown-ups disease. Write the next chapter, describing what happens when he wakes up on the morning of his birthday. Wi he see signs of change? Wi he start to act differenty? Wi he fight off the disease? Wi he want to eat the other chidren? Writing LIT 2-26a / LIT 2-27a / LIT 2-31a HOT SEATING Take it in turns to be in the hot seat for different characters at different points in the nove. Find out about how the character fet at that point in time, what thoughts were running through his/her head, how s/he fet about other characters, what s/he thinks wi happen in the future. Drama EXA 2-12a / EXA 2-13a Homework Activity Grown-up Freeze imagine that grown-ups were frozen for a day. What woud you do? Write a timetabe or diary entry for the day outining a the different activities you woud do, the food you woud eat, the paces you woud go etc. Writing LIT 2-26a / LIT 2-27a / LIT 2-31a 5

6 The Enemy Activities for Secondary (Leves 3-4) INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES Think about conventions of the horror genre. Look at the front and back covers of the nove and see how many of these are introduced. Amongst other aspects, you coud consider the foowing: iustrations (type, coours, stye) vocabuary (tite, burb, extracts, reviews) genera presentation (text font, tite, ayout) Listen to the extract from the nove at the foowing ink: Listening and Taking LIT 3-02a / LIT 3-09a / LIT 4-02a / LIT 4-09a LEADERSHIP Throughout the nove, different chidren act as eaders. Some ead the entire group, some ead the fighting party, some ead the security party and some take charge of ooking after the chidren. Work in groups to make a tabe ike the one beow, providing information about different eaders found in the nove. An exampe of the character Arran might incude: Leader s Name Position Roe/Actions Characteristics Arran Leader of the Waitrose gang The chidren often have to fight for their eadership positions. For exampe, Bue, Arran and Maxie strugge to keep eadership of their groups. David seeks eadership of a the chidren and utimatey of London. Compare tabes with those competed by other groups. Aocate a character to each group. Work in groups to prepare an argument for why the character woud make the best eader of the chidren. Think about actions/events that the character has been invoved in, as we as persona characteristics. Hod a cass debate to see which character woud make the best eader. Makes decisions for the group Leads scavenges for food Leads group to Buckingham Paace Kied in action Patient Rationa Resiient Strong Cam 6

7 MOVIE-MAKING Books are often made into fims. Discuss whether you think this book woud make a good fim. Is there a particuar scene you can envisage? Which parts woud be difficut to make into a movie? Choose a scene from the nove and change it from a narrative into a script. Think about using a range of adverbs such as nervousy, cautiousy, furiousy as stage directions in brackets before a character s speech. Using these wi hep deveop characterisation, action and atmosphere. Writing LIT 3-26a / LIT 3-27a / LIT 3-31a / LIT 4-26a / LIT 4-27a / LIT 4-31a TENSION During the nove, there are key moments of tension. Work with a partner to discuss where these might be, for exampe the swimming poo scene, Sam escaping from the footba stadium or reguar street-fighting between the grown-ups and chidren. Listening and Taking LIT 3-02a / LIT 3-09a / LIT 4-02a / LIT 4-09a Tension is created in a number of different ways. Look for exampes of different toos used to create tension throughout the nove. Use the subheadings given in the mindmap (additiona resource 1) to hep, and compete the map using exampes from the text. Homework Activity Refuge Research ook up images of the different refuges made in famous buidings in London. Which of these do you think you think woud make the safest pace to hide? Which one woud you most ike to stay in and why? Technoogies TCH 3-04a / TCH 4-03b / TCH 4-09b 7

8 Siverfin Activities for Primary (Leve 2) INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES Foow the ink to ook at the information about the other books in the Young Bond series which one woud you most ike to read and why? Pay the different young Bond games at the foowing website: SUPERHEROES Lord Heebore is trying to create a race of superheroes that are strong and powerfu. Imagine you are trying to create a race of superheroes. Discuss with a partner which human quaities you woud give your heroes. Think about physica, socia and emotiona characteristics. If you coud give your superhero one superhuman characteristic what woud it be and why? Write a description and draw an iustration of your superhero, and then present it to the cass. Listening and Taking LIT 2-02a / LIT 2-09a, Expressive Arts Art and Design EXA 2-02a / EXA 2-05a / EXA 2-06a SCRIBBLE CAFÉ Seotape together arge sheets of sugar paper or source cheap paper tabecoths and cover four tabes. Chidren shoud work in groups and spend three minutes at each tabe, taking a pen with them as they move. At each tabe, they shoud scribbe down freey their ideas, responses and feeings about a given aspect of the nove. Aocate aspects such as favourite character, scariest moment, scene that woud be most effective in a movie or setting I woud most ike to visit to the different tabes. Afterwards, chidren can visit each station to read and discuss ideas of peers. Listening and Taking LIT 2-02a / LIT 2-09a COVER STORY Foow the ink beow to see the different versions of the book cover found in different countries of the word and on different editions. Draw a cover for the nove being sod specificay in Scotand. Make sure the cover portrays aspects of genre, content and setting whist uring in the reader Expressive Arts Art and Design EXA 2-02a / EXA 2-05a / EXA 2-06a 8

9 TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST Hod a cass debate about whether or not to trust George Heebore. Think about the way he treats Bond as we as the way he himsef is treated by his father and his own troubed upbringing. Does he deserve the second chance that Bond gave him? Woud you have trusted him if you were in Bond s shoes? Listening and Taking LIT 2-02a / LIT 2-09a Homework Activities Bond Kit The penknife given to him by Red and the ighter given to him by Unce Max come in very usefu to James Bond. Design a kit of essentia toos which James Bond shoud keep with him at a times. Expain what each item is, why you think it woud be usefu and when/how you think it coud be used. A to Z of Bond Bond has many character traits which hep him to be a successfu adventure hero. Try to think of a Bond characteristic or persona quaity for each etter of the aphabet. (A adventurist, B- brave etc.) Siverfin Activities for Secondary (Leves 3-4) INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES Foow the ink to ook at the information about the other books in the Young Bond series which aspects do they a have in common (Bond Gir, Viain etc)? Which woud you most ike to read next and why? Pay the different young Bond games at the foowing website: YOUNG HEROES The nove describes the adventures of the young James Bond foowing the success of the noves and fims about the adut James Bond. Try to identify different aspects of the young Bond which are precursors of the adut Bond. These coud incude: Physica fitness Wide-ranging abiities References to his unce being a spy James disregard for rues Writing LIT 3-26a / LIT 3-27a / LIT 3-31a / LIT 4-26a / LIT 4-27a / LIT 4-31a 9

10 Think about other famous adut heroes or egends such as Sherock Homes or Superman. Write a chapter about the character as a chid and an adventure that s/he goes on. Try to show the beginnings of some of the characteristics demonstrated by the adut version of the hero! GOOD V. EVIL Notions of good and evi and heroes and viains are expored in different ways throughout the nove. Compete the tabe beow to demonstrate the way in which George and Randoph Heebore are portrayed as evi through their beiefs, persona characteristics and actions. Character Beiefs Characteristics Actions George Randoph GRAPHIC NOVEL The book has been made into a graphic nove by Higson and iustrator Kev Waker. Choose a scene from the nove and put it into graphic nove format. You coud use the Comic Life IT programme and images from Googe image to produce an eectronic version. The foowing ink shows iustrations from the graphic nove to give some ideas: Writing LIT 3-26a / LIT 3-27a / LIT 3-31a / LIT 4-26a / LIT 4-27a / LIT 4-31a HISTORICAL SETTING Throughout the nove, there are references to the time in which the story is set (references to Eton, to Hiter and to ifestye). Try to find these and to estimate when you think the nove was set. Which aspects of that time woud you ike to experience? Which aspects are you gad no onger exist! Homework Activity Think of a pace you have visited which woud make a good setting for a Bond nove. Think about which creature woud ive there and what woud happen. Create a nove factfie ike the ones found at the foowing website: 10

11 Additiona Resource 1 S R K L O N D O N H I E T J U S L F O L L R I P G M O R P L V K M X N U R N Y P E L T T R O D S X E R U F T R E I J L O F R E T C V G J O P I E O S W P U F F I N Use the websites above to find the foowing in the wordsearch: The tite of the first nove in the Bond series The ocation of the fourth Bond nove The name of the Bond gir in the third nove The evi creature in the first Bond nove The age of catching the adut disease in The Enemy The setting for The Enemy Charie Higson s favourite genre The pubisher of The Enemy and Siverfin ANSWERS: Siverfin, Mexico, Key, Ee, Fourteen, London, Horror, Puffin 11

12 Additiona Resource 2 Description Sentence structure & punctuation Tension Action Vocabuary 12