THE GREAT BRITISH BOOK OFF:

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1 BOOK OFF: CARNEGIE EDITION INSTRUCTIONS Aim: To fuel enthusiasm and engagement Duration: 10 sessions (Completed weekly) As in the TV show The Great British Bake Off, the shadowers face-off in 3 challenges per meeting to be declared Star Reader. Session 1: We have created a quick presentation that explains how the game will work and sets students off on their first challenge: taste-testing the books. When you finish the session, the group leader should give all shadowers their first recipe card. The structure of sessions -9: Signature Challenge: Each time they meet, the shadowers are given a recipe card that contains a Signature Challenge. Like in the TV show, they have time to prepare this before their next session. When they meet the following week, the session starts with the shadowers presenting their finished recipes and the group leader providing feedback on each. Technical Challenge: Showstopper Challenge: Next, the group leader presents the technical challenge. There is one technical challenge recipe card that can be used for all sessions. The shadowers should also keep their signature challenge recipe card, that lists the ingredients of the book, close by. There is one showstopper challenge recipe card that can be used for all sessions. Each week the shadowers log on to the shadowing website and post their very best review. They should take into consideration what they learned from the first two challenges. The group reads the first chapter of the book listed on that week s recipe card. The shadowers are then given 3 minutes to identify ingredients in the first chapter. The shadower who finds the most ingredients wins this challenge. Finally, the group leader reads over all the reviews and considers the shadowers performance in all three challenges. The group leader then chooses the Star Review of the week and highlights this on the shadowing website. Session 10: Have your shadowers vote for their favourite book and change your barometer on the shadowing site to reflect this. The group leader can also announce who has won Star Reader overall for the competition.

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3 1 The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge 1 Take one ingredient from style, plot and character. 3 Mix together to create a book jacket. Present to the group. One Sarrah Crossan 1 In this book, the characters use music to escape from one another. Using the ingredients for inspiration, create a playlist. 3 Present to the group. Third person narrative Mystery Magical realism Rich descriptive writing A far reaching metaphor Irony Anthropomorphism An island A disgraced family An excavation Truth and Lies A murder Confusion about who to trust Public scandal in the newspaper A female protagonist Investigative character Free Verse First person narrative Lots of contrast, juxtaposition, similes and irony An illness kept secret Going to school for the first time A difficult financial situation A dysfunctional family Media keen to know more An exploration into what a soulmate is Broken rules A visit to an abandoned church Female protagonist Flawed character Desperation to fit in Lover of books and baking Little privacy Struggles to be an individual In this book, the author pokes fun at 1 In this book, art is an important theme. The Rest of Us Just lots of other teen books. Fire Colour One Find a picture of a painting that fits with one Live Here Create a movie poster for this book and cast it of the plot points. Want to be more creative? with characters from other teen fiction. Paint/sketch/make one yourself! Patrick Ness 3 Present to the group. Jenny Valentine 3 Present to the group. Parellel Storylines Parody First person narrative in one story line/third person narrative in the other Characters with unusual names like Satchel and Finn Blend of fantasy and contemporary fiction Lots of cliches from teen fiction An eating disorder A car crash Absent parents Unrequited love Zombie deer A portal opening in the gymnasium Weird blue glow Lack of action Male protagonist Coping with OCD A best friend who is God of cats A troubled sister First person narrative Flashbacks Theme of what is valuable: art, people, relationships Gaps in time A scheme from a greedy mother A discovery that family member is gravely ill A wardrobe lit on fire at a party A battle over inheritance Rekindled relationships A move from America to England Falling out with a best friend A twist at the end A female protagonist A bit of a pyromaniac Troubled, neglected, insecure A disinterested mother

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5 5 6 1 In this book, there is a theme of lies. There Will Be Lies Nick Lake 3 Create two lies and one truth about this book. Present to the group. See who can trick everyone else by crafting the best lie. Lies We Tell Ourselves Robin Talley 1 In this book, the chapter starts with lies the characters tell themselves. We ve met 5 characters in the other books. Create a lie each of the characters (from those other books) tells themselves: Faith, Grace, Iris, Mickey and Shelby. 3 Present to the group. First person narrative Dreamlike sequences the dreaming References to Native American mythology Thriller A lack of speech marks Withheld information that changes how you think of things Riddles Unreliable narrator Star motif Unusual use of brackets Hyperbole A broken ankle A car crash Two character on the run Tricks played by a coyote A recurring dream containing a crying child A 17 year old female protagonist Home schooled Overprotective mother Lover of reading and baseball Multiple first person narrators Chapters start with either a lie or truth Historical fiction Newspaper editorials mixed in A high school that starts to intergrate A school project Incidents of racism LGBT storyline Two people fall in love A character put into a bottom set class despite being very bright Interracial romantic relationships A teenager who is one of the first black students at an all-white high school A teenager who is the daughter of one of the most outspoken and hate-filled campaigners against the integration movement In this book, the order you read thing makes all the difference. The Ghosts of Heaven Marcus Sedgwick 3 Pick one of the books you have finished reading. Pick four important things that happen in that book and put them in order. Then mix them up. Present to the group. Five Children on the Western Front Kate Saunders 1 Imagine you one of the characters from the shortlisted books and were packing to go off to fight in the war. What would be in this character s bag? Pack a bag with the things that are important to that character and bring it in. Present to the group for them to guess which character it is. Split into 4 quarters with one being in free verse Genre bending 4 linked stories that can be read in any order Running symbolism: the spiral A mix of third person and first person narrative Madness Obsession Creation A young girl s cave-drawings Seventeenth century witch hunts A mad poet obsessed with spirals in a 190s insane asylum A spaceship voyaging to settle another world for the first time 4 narrators: a young girl, a young woman, a doctor and a young man Third person narrative Parellel story lines A story on the western front A story back home Newspaper clippings Jumps forward in time leaving big gaps Letters Foreshadowing A continuation of an old story Two characters are sent off to fight in WW1 A sand fairie uses magic to allow the children to see things they nomally couldn t Loss of someone important to the characters A character becomes a nurse against her parents wishes 5 characters All siblings Supportive family

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7 SERVES: 8 weeks of challenges. SHOWSTOPPER: Post a review of this book.

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9 SERVES: 8 weeks of challenges. TECHNICAL CHALLENGE: Give all readers a copy of the first chapter and the relevant recipe cards. Read the first chapter aloud. Give readers 3 minutes to locate as many of the ingredients in the first chapter as possible. When the three minutes are up, the reader who has identified the most ingredients wins.