| 1. |
Prepare a
sequence chart listing the main crises and their resolutions. |
| |
| 2. |
Do character
sketches (verbal and pictorial) that outline physical description as
well as personality traits. |
| |
| 3. |
How does the
author feel hockey should be played? give the reasons her rules and
principles are suitable for a "human" hockey league. |
| |
| 4. |
Choose one of the
settings and construct a diorama. Real scrap items (eg. wrappers,
cracker jack boxes) could be used to provide realism and scale. |
| |
| 5. |
List the
similarities between the MHL and the NHL (eg Cheddar Cup vs. the
Stanley Cup) |
| |
| 6. |
Prepare a
play-by-play radio tape of the big game. It could include player
interviews between periods. (Interviewer in mouse ears with a hockey
stick microphone). |
| |
| 7. |
Do a copy of
"Mouse Hockey News" that followed the championship. Include, story,
headlines, pictures, player comments, etc. |
| |
| 8. |
Read "Casey at
the Bat". Paraphrase the poem and substitute Benny at the Net or
similar title. |
| |
| 9. |
Obtain a copy of
"Houndpower". Rewrite the song as "Mousepower". |
| |
|
10. |
Benny is fond of
sayings such as "the bigger they are, the harder they fall". "Never
venture, never win", "Good riddance to bad rubbish." etc. Choose one
of Benny's sayings and make a poster illustrating the truth of it. |
| |
|
11. |
Make pogs of
Benny the Bullet, Figaro the Flyer, Mizzy Mouse, etc. (round
cardboard discs that are used like sports cards). |
| |
|
12. |
Make a set of
hockey cards with a picture of a player and a description of his
attributes on each one. |
| |
|
13. |
What other
animals could be in the arena? Names - based on your city/town. |
| |
|
14. |
Hockey - Rules of
the game - positions - referees - traditions - superstitions
-nutrition, oranges vs cigar butts, food at the dump. |
| |
|
15. |
Zamboni - how it
works - machinery for shaving ice, clearing snow, spray boiling
water, smoothing ice. |
| |
|
16. |
Garbage removal -
Visit a dump - how processed in Your city (SWARU) Ecology - overfill
- recycling. |
| |
|
17. |
Mapping - plans
of attack - Perhaps construct a game (on a map) to get the Cheddar
Cup. (Several teachers have designed board games). |
| |
|
18. |
Skateboard
contests outside. |
| |
|
19. |
Cheddar Cup game
outside. |
| |
|
20. |
Sports equipment
- for protection. How would mice or whatever make equipment - what
materials could they use? |
| |
|
21. |
Reasons for
safety rules - seat belts, bicycle helmets, etc. |
| |
|
22. |
Sportsmanship -
rules (creed, fair play, cheating). |
| |
|
23. |
Field trips -
Visit an arena, a Cheese Factory. (In Hamilton, one teacher took her
class to Sam Manson's sports store in Hamilton, ON where Pops
Kinesky, a real person who owned the store, used to make hockey pads
stuffed with deer hair). |
| |
|
24. |
Opera |
| |
|
25. |
French - National
anthem in French. |
| |
|
26. |
Stanley Cup -
history (pictures) |
| |
|
27. |
Make a paper
maché Cheddar Cup (Fill it with cheeses)
- Model mice - paper maché pulp, clay,
puppets
- use the type of things that the mice used
for equipment
- make dioramas of an ice rink
|
| |
|
28. |
Cheeses - various
kinds - how made - where they came from -
- cheeses of the world.
- make a cheese info book complete with
recipes.
- preservatives - mould - shelf life.
|
| |
|
29. |
Research
- hockey players
- mice books - animals talking like humans,
etc.
- icons - things that stand for something
important Holy Grail, Golden Fleece, Trojan Horse.
|
| |
|
30. |
Rats/Mice -
contrast, similarities |
| |
|
31. |
Nicknames -
according to interests, what people do, what they look like. |
| |
|
32. |
Loudspeaker - why
it amplifies - get into sound. |
| |
|
33. |
Writing a story -
plot, characters, setting, outline, mood (suspense) turning point,
high point. |
| |
|
34. |
One teacher wrote
to tell me that she had completed a novel study of my book, had
hockey playoffs, designed mouse uniforms out of fabric and junk,
made a mural of the forum ice surface with players and then had a
wind-up where they ate cheese, crackers and gave out awards to the
winners of the Cheddar Cup. "The possibilities of activities to go
along with this book are endless," she wrote. |
