Malorie Blackman: We have the technology

Activities

• Play Malorie's game. Imagine the doctor has just told you that you haven't got a skeleton like other people; that inside you is a metal frame and that you are really a robot! Write down your immediate response to this news. Are you happy and excited about all the things you'll now be able to do, or upset and frightened?
• Keep a journal and jot down things that you hear people say or see them do.
• Read some of Malorie's stories and identify some of the cliffhangers. How do they make the reader want to read on?
• Work with a partner as a 'critical friend' to help them draft and re-draft a short story until it's ready for publication.
• Make a class book containing each pupil's detailed description of their favourite Malorie Blackman character, without stating his or her name. Can the others guess who has been written about?