“It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History.  But let's face it, that would be crap.”

                         –        Meg Rosoff, Author

 Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.

 As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it's a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy's uncanny bond with her cousins grows to something rare and extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way. 

TOOLS TO LIVE BY NOW:

(1)  YOUR WIKI SITE 

 Simply follow the link above, register (it's free and painless), and start to revise, add, and edit the site.  

Wiki's are the new way for individuals to share, edit, and compile  information, ideas, images -- pretty much anything and everything. We've created a sample wiki for the Meg Rosoff's novel How I Live Now to describe the impact it can have. Of course, a wiki is not (and should not) be limited to what is found here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki and then get to work.

(2) YOUR BLOGGER SITE 

Simply follow the link above, register (it's free and painless), and start to blog away.  (Look to the Unit Plan for specific Blogger assignments, too!)

OTHER FUN STUFF:

(1) Webquest- HOW I LIVE NOW - And All That Jazz

This webquest brings students on a journey of discovery to find the relationship between music - rhythm, language, and mood -- and the language of Rosoff's How I Live Now.

In this webquest, students will listen to different music, a clip of the How I Live Now audio book, create their own podcast scat poem, read some connections on Skaz, and finally put their new-found knowledge together in an adapted Task IV Regents essay.