Join us for discussions, writing prompts and creative challenges. October HT readalong: The Owl Service #OctoberOwls Sun 23/10 - Sat 29/10
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Discussion prompt
Think about the image created in the last line of the book. How does it connect in your view to Garner’s quote?
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Writing prompt
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
Alan Garner
Do you have a preferred place to write? Why? (or Why not?)
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Creative prompt
Design a bookshop display for TOS. How is it decorated and what other books do you put around it?
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Day 6 #OctoberOwls
Ch 21-24
Discussion prompt
We see a lot of (and hear a lot from) Clive and Huw in these chapters. Compare these two adults and the themes they represent in the text.
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Ch 21-24
Writing prompt
This is, in parts and in ways, a challenging text and is deeply unsettling. It's very different to a lot of 'children's books'. What makes it a children's book?
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Ch 21-24
Creative prompt
Choose the character you are most fascinated by and sketch them.
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Day 5 #OctoberOwls
Ch 17-20
Discussion prompt
‘I once saw a nettle growing in an old garage in Aber. A pale little thing it was. It had split the floor.’
Gwen draws attention to the smallest of things. Where else are signs of suppressed power? What is the point of this theme?
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Ch 17-20
Writing prompt
'I became a writer because [Bert Parnaby] showed me that the words were connected with something important than passing exams.'
For young people, what should words connect with, when they write?
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Ch 17-20
Creative prompt
Alison tells us she collected some feathers in the woods. Draw a feather from a bird you like.
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Chapters 13-16
Discussion prompt
'I’m up here & down there, thought Alison. Which is me? Am I the reflection in the window of me down there.' Alison draws attention to the idea of displacement. What other reflections, re-formings, re-imaginings have you noticed?
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Chapters 13-16
Writing prompt
'As a way of revealing character, Garner’s dialogue is unsurpassed.' (Pullman)
What makes the dialogue so supreme? What examples stand out from today’s reading?
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Chapters 13-16
Creative prompt
Experiment photographing reflections in liquid (puddles/lakes/ponds/rivers etc…)
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Chapters 9-12
Discussion prompt
In this chapter, through the dialogue of Gwen and Alison, the supernatural and the plainness of reality are strongly contrasted. Who/what do you feel most connected to or aligned with?
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Chapters 9-12
Writing prompt
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'A writer is somebody who lives, in their own life, their own investigation of what it’s all about. The writer is his own laboratory.'
What is Garner saying & how might it affect your reading of his writing?
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Chapters 9-12
Creative prompt
Find out about and draw Blodeuwedd, now ‘she’s come’.
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On the metro off to work reading this great gem what a wonderful deep book much to gain will defo be having another few reads @ReadAlongs #OctoberOwls
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Several, but for example @neilphilipmyth's English Folktales, first version or most recent. Also reprints of classic Welsh and Scottish tales (Uni Wales Press, Senate). All worth dipping into.
