Chapter One – Observation Skills

With any book, the setting in the first chapter, often holds clues to character traits, themes and plot lines. Test your observation skills, with these questions: Observation 1)    What are the key words used to describe this world? 2)    What type of government is featured in this book? What clues do you have? 3)    How…

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Steampunk Architecture – Teaching Suggestions

Rebuilding Arcadia, Book 1, gives students the opportunity to practice steampunk world-building, either through art projects or creative writing.  The series spans several decades but Book 1 focuses on the limited perspective of one teenager. The term After Fallout in the subtitle of each chapter implies a nuclear disaster and the illustrations imply that the…

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