WHO LET THE GODS OUT? Maz Evans CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER RESOURCES CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 www.maz.world @maryaliceevans chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities 1 • What does the author mean when referring to the body odour Write a conversation ART • Draw what you think as ‘weapons grade’? between a naughty pupil Elliot, Call Me Graham and • What does ‘jubilantly’ mean? Can you do an impression of and a headteacher in the Mr Boil look like. ‘lumbering jubilantly’? style of Elliot and Mr Boil. • Is Elliot often in trouble? How do you know? Use shifts in formality to DRAMA • Use drama to act • Why do you think Mr Boil has no respect for Call Me Graham? make it effective. out the scene in Call Me • Is Elliot a good student? How do you know? Graham’s office. • Where does Elliot go to school? • How old is Elliot? 2 • What does the text mean when it says the farm had been the Write the next part of the ART • Create your own family home for ‘generations’? story, predicting where Mum horrible neighbour in the • What words show that Elliot doesn’t want to speak to Patricia has gone. style of Patricia Porshley- Porshley-Plum? Plum. • Why might Elliot like the walk home so much? • Why does Elliot lie about his mum being ill? • Why does Elliot get so panicked? • Predict where Mum has gone. • What impression do you get of Patricia in this chapter? www.maz.world @maryaliceevans CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities 3 • Explain what a zodiac is. From this, what is the ‘Zodiac Write an advertisement for HISTORY• Research and make Council’? a job opening in the Zodiac a fact file about the signs of the • Find words that show that Elysium is a paradise. Council. zodiac. Each group could take • Why might Cyclops be entitled to half-price eye care? a different one. • Why doesn’t the Zodiac Council want to bestow more serious Write a balanced argument responsibilities upon Virgo? about whether you think GEOGRAPHY• Research Stone- • How do you know people don’t want to do the Prisoner Forty- Zodiac should have left or henge, and create a leaflet Two task? not. about the area and its history. • Why does Virgo almost immediately regret her decision to leave? • What stone circle might Virgo be looking for? • What are Virgo’s responsibilities? • What is involved in the Prisoner Forty-Two task? 4 • What does the phrase ‘Mum’s the word’ mean? Write the Really Scary Letter. PHILOSOPHY• Create a mood • Why is the chapter called this? graph for Elliot in this chapter. • What does ‘discern’ mean? • Why does Maz put inverted commas around ‘“borrow” money’? MUSIC• Use musical instru- • Why was Elliot so worried? ments to soundtrack the end • Why is Elliot unsure about whether he’ll ever know about his of the chapter as one of your father? group reads it. www.maz.world @maryaliceevans CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities • Why are there lots of IOUs in the money jar? 4 • Why do you think Elliot doesn’t study? • What is the Really Scary Letter? • Why can Elliot see the stars so well? • Explain what will happen if Elliot doesn’t pay his debts. • What words show the cow isn’t pleased about Virgo’s 5 presence? Write a diary entry as Elliot, SCIENCE• Create your own • Identify words from Virgo’s vocabulary that might seem strange detailing the events of this mini cowshed. Take a rock to a 12-year-old boy. Identify the meaning of these words. chapter. that will represent Virgo, • What had Virgo landed in? then drop it on to the shed from a height. Use various • Why does Virgo get annoyed at the cow? • How does Elliot realize someone is in the shed? materials to reinforce your • Why does Elliot find it so difficult to communicate with Virgo? shed. Reach a conclusion • Why did Virgo’s clothes nearly make Elliot puke? about the best materials for • Why does Elliot start thinking about how much money he could reinforcement. Think about get for the flask? how to make it a fair test. • Explain how ‘What’s What?’ works. Are there human equivalents? www.maz.world @maryaliceevans CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities 6 • Find vocabulary that shows Elliot is tired. How do we know he’s Imagine you were an SCIENCE• Research and create always tired from earlier in the story? Why is this? onlooker who secretly saw a fact file on how long different • How does Elliot feel when Virgo has been under water for a how long Virgo was under mammals can survive under long time? Find vocabulary that backs your answer up. water. Write a letter to a water: humans, dolphins, bea- • What does Virgo think the TV is? newspaper, telling them vers, sloths and seals. • Why doesn’t Elliot want his mum to let anyone in? what you saw. • Why is Elliot going to take Virgo to the police station? • Does Elliot think Prisoner Forty-Two’s imprisonment is fair? • Why can’t Virgo transform into her constellation to prove her immortality to Elliot? • Name the five categories of immortal. What happens if they lose their Kardia? • Look at the description of the prisoner and discuss these words Rewrite the scene where ART• Draw Thanatos before 7 – ‘remnants’, ‘emaciated’, ‘huddled’, ‘pitiful’ and ‘skeletal’. Thanatos is initially freed, and after the change, using the • When Elliot touches Prisoner Forty-Two, what vocabulary from the perspective of descriptions in the chapter. shows that was the wrong decision? Thanatos. • Is Virgo panicking? How do you know? HISTORY• Research and make • Does Elliot feel sorry for the prisoner? How do you know? a fact file/poster/presentation • How does Prisoner Forty-Two trick Elliot? about Thanatos. www.maz.world @maryaliceevans CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities • What does Thanatos mean when he says he’s going to ‘really enjoy not killing her’? • What does Virgo do initially when Prisoner Forty-Two starts to transform? • Who is Prisoner Forty-Two? • How does Elliot convince Thanatos to free Virgo? • What impression do you get of Thanatos from this chapter? • What vocabulary shows Patricia is spoilt? Write a character MUSIC• Write a poem or a song 8 • What does Patricia mean by ‘I hope you kept the receipt’? description for Patricia, about Patricia Porshley-Plum and • Why does Patricia dislike Elliot? making her sound as putrid soundtrack it with some instru- • Why does Patricia take a cake? as you possibly can. ments. • Why does Josie look so dreadful? • How does Patricia figure out that Josie is unwell? 9 • What words show Aries is angry? Write a report from the DRAMA• Use drama to act out the • Find vocabulary that shows that the Council doesn’t respect Zodiac Council about why Zodiac Council meeting. Make it Virgo very much. they have taken Virgo’s as dramatic as you can. • Does Elliot enjoy flying? How do you know? powers. • What is the council’s reaction to hearing that Prisoner Forty- Two is Thanatos? www.maz.world @maryaliceevans CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities • How does Virgo learn more about Thanatos? • Why is the Council so cross with Virgo? • What does the Council believe is the only thing left of Thanatos? • What will happen to Virgo if she uses her powers again? 10 • Why is the chapter called ‘Plain Sailing’? Write a review of Quick Styx HISTORY• Research and make • Why do they need to take public transport? Cabs. a fact file about Charon. • What do you think is Elliot’s initial impression of the boat? Why? • Why does Elliot start to get worried about the time? ART• Create your own other- • Why does Elliot want the Earth Stone? worldly public transport, brand • Who do Virgo and Elliot decide they need to recruit the help of? it and come up with a slogan Why? and business card. • Explain the difference between Elysium public transport and Earth public transport. HISTORY• Make a poster about • Why are all the Chaos Stones the wrong colour? the River Styx. Do some re- search to supplement it. www.maz.world @maryaliceevans CREATED BY: Ashley Booth @MrBoothY6 chickenhousebooks.com Chapter Comprehension Writing Cross Curricular Questions Opportunities Opportunities Write a review from Tantalus 11 • What vocabulary makes Tartarus look daunting and scary? DRAMA• Come up with voices about his shopping. • Is Thanatos pleased at the housing being built? How do you for these characters: Sisyphus, know? Write a diary entry from Tantalus, Charon and Thanatos. • How does Tantalus feel when his shopping arrives? Sisyphus after the events of Record bits of speech using • How does he feel when he opens it? this chapter. your character voices. • Why does Charon think Tantalus wouldn’t have minded toilet paper? HISTORY• Research Hypnos • Why does Thanatos make Sisyphus drop the boulder? and use this research to predict • Why does Thanatos doubt that Hypnos will be pleased to see what is coming in the story. him? Write a newspaper report in 12 • What is a ‘nebulous gloom’? ART• Design a menu for Café the style of the Daily Argus • What are ‘Café Hero’ and ‘iGod’ a pun of? Can you make some Hero. Come up with some pun- more shop name puns based on Gods and heavens etc.? about one of the past events based products for the menu.