Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her?
With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart..
Chose a pair of contrasting characters and write a character sketch of each one.
Write an acrostic poem based on the word COGHEART.
Choose a scene and turn it into a playscript.
Cogheart is set in a fictional world that is based on Victorian London. Design your own fictional world, based on a real historical period you have studied.
How does the Cogheart world compare to other fictional worlds that you know (for example, the worlds of the Hobbit and Harry Potter)? What techniques do the writers use to make a fictional world believable?
Make a storyboard or story map showing how the plot develops.
Generate some questions you would like answered - what puzzles you about the book?
Use “Hot Seating”: a child (or adult) plays the role of one of the main characters and the class asks them questions. What would the character reply?
Look at the vocab sheet in the school resource pack (page 13) and write your own “Cogheart Dictionary”.
Maths
Work out the distances travelled by airship during the book.
Learn about the life of 'The Lady with the Lamp', Florence Nightingale, with our free fact cards. A fantastic resource for the primary classroom with related teaching ideas!
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