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A Glasshouse of Stars is a powerful story based on Shirley Marr’s childhood experience of migration. This teaching pack aimed at 8+/KS2+ readers. explores some of the important themes within the book such as bullying, grief, fears and anxiety, imagination, and communication.
Key themes of faith and religion, education and knowledge, community and isolation, and gender, are explored through discussion and analysis and creative tasks aimed at KS3.
Discussion questions, language analysis tasks and a range of activities to get students responding to literature and exploring key themes such as being an outsider and what it means to be human – ideal for KS3.
Discussion questions and creative activities including composition and performance, dramatising a scene and writing an epilogue to explore a coming of age novel – aimed at KS4.
Explore Edwardian England throughout extract-based discussion and activities including creative writing, making an advertisement, and role play, ideal for KS2 and KS3.
Explore the key themes of conservationism and the environment through discussion questions and activities including writing a news bulletin, making your own forest and creating dodo merchandise – ideal for KS1.
Comprehension/discussion questions and creative activities including creating a missing poster, making a parachute, and designing a book cover - great for KS1.