LEVIATHAN - Scott Westerfeld

� List and describe the jobs some of the ‘Beasties’ do on the Leviathan. (Draw the
creatures.) Refer chapters 24-26.
Apply (Applying knowledge)
� Create your own collection of Clanker type artefacts.
� Create a story map for Leviathan including relevant information about events.(Use
the map provided in the end papers to help)
� Create a ‘pop up’ book, diorama or mural for an episode of the book
� Create a missing persons poster or a wanted poster for Alek.
� Design a map of Deryn and Alek’s respective journeys with captions and images
highlighting important events.
� Design a newspaper front story as if Deryn was relating her experiences to a
journalist or an Austrian newspaper with a story about the assassination and
disappearance of the prince.
� Make a board game about the story.(Play Diplomacy or Risk)
� Design a poster for the library to illustrate one of Scott Westerfeld’s books. (Find out
about the author.)
� Create a model of one of the Clankers machine monsters.
� Create a PowerPoint project about: tanks, trench warfare, airships, thylacines the
Hindenburg disaster, ironclad warships, Political assassination, World War One,
Austria Hungary, Switzerland or Charles Darwin.
� Write a dos and don’ts chart for running in a walker (refer page 93-95) .
Analyse (Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant, determining points of view and how
elements fit and function within a structure)
� Write a commercial to sell the positives of Darwinist creations
� Create an ‘action graph’ for selected episodes from the story.
� Prepare a fact file or oral report on the true causes of World War One.
� Write a ‘How to’ guide for an activity demonstrated in the book such as running in a
Walker or riding safely in a Huxley.