20 episodes
Windscape Paul Murdoch
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- Education
Set in the Western Isles, Windscape is an exciting children’s adventure that explores the dilemma between the usefulness of wind farms and the beautiful scenery they can sometimes destroy. Jenny MacLeod’s mother has died and her father is about to lose their farm after mounting debts. The only way for her and her father to keep their home, set on the beautiful Hushwish Bay, is to sign up to a wind turbine project. When protestors invade their beach and her father has a heart attack, the well-to-do Murdochs take Jenny under their wing. She soon finds out, however, that Mr Murdoch has been keeping letters back from her and her father. Letters that could have saved their home without the need to build the wind farms there in the first place. Will Jenny have time to save everything she loves?
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Chapter 27 – The Showdown
Topics to explore: porters, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure… The hospital porters play a big part in this chapter. What other kinds of people might work in a hospital? Words to explore : showdown, gown, mishmash, assumed, braced, bedraggled… Emotions : What thoughts go though Jenny’s head when she finds out the lady protester is …
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Chapter 28 – The Summer Wind
Topics to explore : peregrine falcon, shepherd’s crook, the island of Mauritius… What species of geese migrate to Scotland in winter? Words to explore : obelisk, eyesore, triumphantly, skene, moderation, tumbling… Emotions : Why might Jenny have forgiven Pavel? Summarise the chapter in a few sentences, draw a favourite scene, write out your favourite piece …
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Chapter 26 – The Right Bed
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? Summarise the chapter in a few sentences, draw a favourite scene, write out …
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Chapter 25 – Framed
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 …
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Chapter 24 – Evil Intent
Topics to explore : sandstone, sewage plants, the River Clyde The Clyde is a major river on the west coast of Scotland that passes through Glasgow, what’s the 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 …
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Chapter 23 – The Tunnel
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? Summarise the chapter in a few sentences, draw a favourite scene, write out …