'Nicholas Was...' Christmas activities
Students explore the themes, style, language and form of Neil Gaiman's festive flash fiction story 'Nicholas Was …'.
This popular resource includes a link to Gaiman's super short story and a series of collaborative activities for students to complete as they work out the subject of the cryptic story and consider Gaiman's style and language.
Students can then watch a short animation of the story and create their own graphic story version.
A perfect Christmas lesson for KS3!
Example activities from the lesson worksheet:
‘Endless Night’
Draw a sketch illustrating what image is conjured in your head after reading this extract. Pick out a phrase/ group of words from the extract which prompted this image!
‘incomprehensible rituals’
Using your knowledge from the text and your imagination, create your own ‘incomprehensible ritual’. For example, a ritual could be that every year the dwarves celebrate their birthdays through chanting, dancing and midnight bonfires.
Task 2
Change the form of the text into a graphic story. A graphic story is a narrative based around the images — the images tell the story!
For each paragraph, take a photograph, find a photograph or draw a picture which represents the paragraph’s contents. Underneath each image select a relevant key phrase or words for your image.
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