Windscape

Topics to explore: porters, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure…

hospital?

Emotions : What thoughts go though Jenny’s head when she finds out the lady protester is Pavel’s mum?

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Topics to explore : peregrine falcon, shepherd’s crook, the island of Mauritius… What species of geese migrate to Scotland in winter?

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Topics to explore : wheelchairs, disability, maternity ward,

What are the Paralympic Games?

Words to explore : flagging, prospect, abandoned, buckled, resolutely, lilting, accusatory, ‘Pre-op’.

Emotions : What is Jenny feeling when she finds out that it wasn’t her dad’s empty bed?

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Topics to explore : wrestling, Blackberry (type of mobile phone), Hummer…

Big Birdie is described as a gorilla – The Gorilla is the largest living primate. What is a primate?

Words to explore : retinue, henchmen, runts, ‘hen’, framed, glowered, double-take…

Emotions : What is Flynn feeling when he is framed by Pavel? What does Windy feel when he is told the truth?

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Topics to explore : sandstone, sewage plants, the River Clyde

big river on the east coast that serves Edinburgh?

Words to explore : intent, yobs, cronies, surreptitiously, stalk-still, loathing…

Emotions : What was the nurse thinking when Hamish pushed past her?

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Topics to explore : the word ‘Ned’, monuments…

What monuments do you have near your school?

Words to explore : shimmied, dolefully, squinted, cluster, chattering, wry…

Emotions : What is Lord most interested in when Jenny is trying to get Flynn’s jacket?

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Topics to explore : calamine lotion, life jackets, pantomimes…

Words to explore : estuary, thugs, mooched, cuff, juddered, gushing, sheen, manic…

Emotions : What is Flynn thinking as he negotiates with Angus Murdoch?

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Topics to explore : camels, granite, the River Leven, Formica.

What is the difference between a carrion crow and a hooded crow. (Draw)

Words to explore : corrugated, frayed, ignition, moored, throttle, carcasses…

Emotions : What is Jenny feeling as Pavel steals the cruiser in Dumbarton?

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Topics to explore : different kinds of knots, Loch Lomond…

there before being taken to his execution?

Words to explore : hitch, boggy, lay-by, struts, furious, snoring…

Emotions : Why does Jenny throw the letter away?

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Topics to explore : Marts, auctions…

Emotions : What could be going through Sandy’s mind when he eventually unties Jenny and Pavel?

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