Rooftoppers: The Story Atlas

What you'll make

An illustrated story atlas, an optional book-nook design and an illustrated feature with a sustained explanation.

What you'll learn

• Setting and atmosphere
• Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification — and their effects
• Narrative viewpoint
• Inference about a character's development

You'll need

Your own or a library copy of Rooftoppers · Paper, coloured pencils

The book's Paris is an imagined, story version. Keep atlas notes separate from facts about Paris today. The book-nook is optional and needs no climbing or travel.

Curriculum links

• Read a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, including whole books and plays, and texts from the English literary heritage
• Read critically, knowing how language, including figurative language, vocabulary choice, grammar, text structure and organisational features, presents meaning
• Study setting, plot and characterisation, and the effects of these on the reader
• Study the effectiveness and impact of the grammatical features of the texts they read
• Write accurately, fluently, effectively and at length for pleasure and information, including well-structured formal expository and narrative essays