COSMIC Activity and Discussion Guides Now Available

Monday, 4/26/2010

The discussion and activity guides for Frank Cottrell Boyce’s acclaimed new novel COSMIC are available to download now.

In Cosmic, Liam has always felt a bit like he’s stuck between two worlds.  This is primarily due to the fact that he’s a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he’s about thirty. Sometimes it’s not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school, or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it’s just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world.

And so he decides to flip things around.

Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It’s not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again – only this time he’s 239,000 miles from home.

The Cosmic Activity and Discussion Guides are designed to enhance the Cosmic experience, and help bring the novel’s themes to life.

Cosmic Activity Guide: Standards-based, the Cosmic Activity Guide features 4 activities focused around Cosmic’s key themes of space flight and fatherhood. The activities include:

• • • Human Spaceflight
    • “Space Suits Aren’t Clothes, Idiot. They’re Equipment”
    • Science Fiction and Science Fact
    • The “Vomit Comet” (Space Technology)

Cosmic Reading Discussion Guide: Created in partnership with the National Fatherhood Initiative, the Cosmic Reading Discussion Guide offers insightful questions based upon the themes of Cosmic. It also includes special questions designed specifically for fathers and their children.

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