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While reading HMC, complete the following: § Keep a double page in your exercise book, with the heading: **Sophie’s Journey**. Each time Sophie completes a step of the hero’s journey, make a note of it (include the page number). § Using the table below, complete a selection of activities to total 40 points. These activities will be posted to a class wiki. § If you can think of another activity, or you’d like to change one from the list, please speak to your teacher. § You must comment on other people’s activities. § We will be working on this until the end of term, with a break in the middle to complete your assessment task. This is assessable as class work – providing you use your class time effectively, you should have no homework. ** 5  ** ||  **  10  ** ||  **  15  ** ||  **  20  ** ||  Interview a character from HMC. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. Give your interview questions to someone else and they can answer as the character. ||  Answer someone else’s interview questions. ||  Imagine that you are Diana Wynne Jones. Suddenly HMC becomes a best seller. Write a letter to a movie producer trying to get that person interested in making your book into a movie. Explain why the story, characters, conflicts, etc., would make a good film (it is already an anime, so make your suggestions centred around real actors). Suggest a filming location and the actors to play the various roles. ||  After seeing the anime version of HMC, answer the following essay question (min 2 pages): How effective is Hayao Miyazaki’s version of HMC? || Write a blog entry as one of the characters in the book. Remember that the character's thoughts and feelings are very important in a blog. ||  Write a sales talk promoting the book. ||  Write a book review as it would be done for a newspaper. Be sure you read a few reviews before writing your own (I can help you find some). ||  Essay: Sophie is a true hero. Discuss. Remember to structure your response as an essay, using direct quotes and examples from both texts. || Sketch a scene from the book, scan it in and post it to your blog. ||  Write a letter to Sophie from another character asking questions, protesting a situation, and/or making a complaint and/or a suggestion. This must be done in the correct letter format. ||  Write a feature article that tells the story of a major scene from the book. Make sure you include all of the elements that a front page has (headline, writer’s name picture)  || Create a newspaper for HMC. Summarise the plot in one article, cover the weather in another, do a feature story on one of the more interesting characters in another. Include an editorial and a collection of ads that would be relevant to the story. ||  ** 5  ** ||  **  10  ** ||  **  15  ** ||  **  20  ** ||  Do a collage/poster showing images that relate to the book and then write a sentence or two beside each one to show its significance. ||  Write about what you learned from the story. ||  Write a travel brochure using the location of HMC as the destination. You can use the castle as a destination to stay, or you can choose one of the exits. ||  Make a newspaper about HMC, with all a newspaper's parts - comics, ads, weather, letter to the editor, etc.   || Make a poster advertising HMC so someone else will want to read it. ||  Add a new character and explain what you would have him/her do in HMC. ||  Create a mini-comic book relating a chapter of the book. ||  Retell part of the story from a different point of view   || Choose a quote from a character. Write why it would or wouldn't be a good motto by which to live your life. ||  Pretend that you can spend a day with one of the characters. Which character would you choose? Why? What would you do? ||  Be a radio reporter, and give a report of a scene from the book as if it is happening "live". Use the program //Audaciy// to record your piece. ||  Choose a chapter and write a film script out of it. || Write a gravestone with an epitaph for one of the characters. ||  Make a map of where the events in the book take place. ||  Design an original book jacket for the book. Remember to include all elements that make up a book jacket. ||   ||  Send a postcard from one of the characters. Draw a picture on one side and write the message on the other. ||  Choose one part of the story that reached a climax. If something different had happened, how would it have affected the outcome? ||  Write a biography on Diana Wynne Jones. ||  Write and perform an original song that tells the story of the book. || Choose birthday presents for the characters involved. Write a sentence for why you chose them. ||  Write about a character's life twenty years from now. ||  Write a different ending for your story  || || Pretend that you are going to join the characters in HMC. What things will you need to pack? Think carefully, as you will be there for a week, and there is no going back home to get anything! ||  Plan a party for the characters involved. Think about things such as decorations, music, party games, food and drink. ||  Write a different beginning to the story. ||   ||  Create a word find. ||  Write a one sentence summary of each chapter and illustrate the sentence. ||  Design a crossword with questions as the clues. ||   ||   ||   Write a multiple choice quiz of the book with at least ten questions. ||  Stories are made up on conflicts and solutions. Choose three conflicts that take place in the story and give the solutions. Is there one that you wish had been handled differently? ||   ||   ||    ||   Make a time line of all the events in the book. ||   ||   ||    ||   Write the plot for a sequel to this book. ||   ||   ||    ||   Write a poem about the story. ||   ||