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We have created a quick presentation that explains how the game will work and sets students oﬀ on their ﬁ rst challenge: taste-testing the books.

When you ﬁ nish the session, the group leader should give all shadowers their ﬁ rst recipe card.

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 ﬁ nished recipes and the group leader providing feedback on each.

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.

The group reads the ﬁ rst chapter of the book listed on that week’s recipe card.

The shadowers are then given 3 minutes to identify ingredients in the ﬁ rst

chapter. The shadower who ﬁ nds the most ingredients wins this challenge.

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 ﬁ rst two challenges.

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.

Have your shadowers vote for their favourite book and change your barometer on the shadowing site to reﬂ ect this. The group leader can also announce who has won Star Reader overall for the competition.

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:

Signature Challenge:

The structure of sessions 2-9:

Session 10:

Showstopper Challenge:

Technical Challenge:

Aim:

Duration:

To fuel enthusiasm and engagement

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• Third person narrative

• Mystery

• Magical realism

• Rich descriptive writing

• A far reaching metaphor

• Irony

• Anthropomorphism

• First person narrative

• Flashbacks

• Theme of what is valuable: art, people, relationships

• Gaps in time

• 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 ﬁ ction

• Lots of cliches from teen ﬁ ction

• An island

• A disgraced family

• An excavation

• Truth and Lies

• A murder

• Confusion about who to trust

• Public scandal in the newspaper

• A scheme from a greedy mother

• A discovery that family member is gravely ill

• A wardrobe lit on ﬁ re 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

• An eating disorder

• A car crash

• Absent parents

• Unrequited love

• Zombie deer

• A portal opening in the gymnasium

• Weird blue glow

• Lack of action

• A female protagonist

• Investigative character

• A female protagonist

• A bit of a pyromaniac

• Troubled, neglected, insecure

• A disinterested mother

• Male protagonist

• Coping with OCD

• A best friend who is God of cats

• A troubled sister

STYLE:

PLOT:

CHARACTER:

This recipe shall be known as:

The Lie Tree From the kitchen of:

Frances Hardinge

This recipe shall be known as:

Fire Colour One This recipe shall be

known as:

The Rest of Us Just

Live Here From the kitchen of:

Jenny Valentine From the kitchen of:

Patrick Ness

DIRECTIONS FOR THE SIGNATURE CHALLENGE:

Present to the group.

3 Present to the group.

Present to the group. 3

3 1 Take one ingredient from style, plot and character.

1 In this book, the author pokes fun at 1 In this book, art is an important theme.

lots of other teen books.

2 2 2

Mix together to create a book jacket.

Find a picture of a painting that ﬁ ts with one of the plot points. Want to be more creative?

Paint/sketch/make one yourself!

Create a movie poster for this book and cast it with characters from other teen ﬁ ction.

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• Free Verse

• Lots of contrast, juxtaposition, similes and irony

• An illness kept secret

• Going to school for the ﬁ rst time

• A diﬀ icult ﬁ nancial 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 ﬁ t in

• Lover of books and baking

• Little privacy

• Struggles to be an individual

STYLE: PLOT: CHARACTER:

This recipe shall be known as:

One

From the kitchen of:

Sarrah Crossan 3 Present to the group.

1 In this book, the characters use music to escape from one another.

2 Using the ingredients for inspiration, create a playlist.

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• Multiple ﬁ rst person narrators

• Chapters start with either a lie or truth

• Historical ﬁ ction

• Newspaper editorials mixed in

• 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

• 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 ﬁ ght 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

• 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 ﬁ rst person narrative

• 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 ﬁ rst black students at an all-white high school

• 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

• 5 characters

• All siblings

• Supportive family

• Madness

• Obsession

• Creation

• A young girl’s cave-drawings

• Seventeenth century witch hunts

• A mad poet obsessed with spirals in a 1920s insane asylum

• A spaceship voyaging to settle another world for the ﬁ rst time

• 4 narrators: a young girl, a young woman, a doctor and a young man

STYLE:

PLOT:

CHARACTER:

This recipe shall be known as:

Lies We Tell Ourselves This recipe shall be

known as:

There Will Be Lies

This recipe shall be known as:

Five Children on the Western Front This recipe shall be

known as:

The Ghosts of Heaven

From the kitchen of:

Robin Talley From the kitchen of:

Nick Lake

From the kitchen of:

Kate Saunders From the kitchen of:

Marcus Sedgwick

Present to the group.

Present to the group. See who can trick everyone else by craft ing the best lie.

Present to the group for them to guess which character it is.

Present to the group.

3 3

3 2 1 1

1 1

In this book, the chapter starts with lies the characters tell themselves.

In this book, there is a theme of lies.

In this book, the order you read thing makes all the diﬀ erence.

2 2

2 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.

Create two lies and one truth about this book.

Imagine you one of the characters from the shortlisted books and were packing to go oﬀ to ﬁ ght 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.

Pick one of the books you have ﬁ nished reading.

Pick four important things that happen in that book and put them in order. Then mix them up.

• A teenager who is the daughter of one of the most outspoken and hate-ﬁ lled campaigners against the integration movement

5 6

7 8

DIRECTIONS FOR THE SIGNATURE CHALLENGE:

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SHOWSTOPPER:

Post a review of this book.

8 weeks of challenges.

SERVES:

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TECHNICAL CHALLENGE:

Give all readers a copy of the ﬁ rst chapter and the relevant recipe cards.

Read the fi rst chapter aloud. Give readers 3 minutes to locate as many of the ingredients in the fi rst chapter as possible. When the three minutes are up, the reader who has identifi ed the most ingredients wins.