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Superpowers in Skulduggery Pleasant. In Skulduggery Pleasant, reading minds, shape changing and ‘bringing fire’ are all superpowers characters have displayed.
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Superpowers in Skulduggery Pleasant • In Skulduggery Pleasant, • reading minds, • shape changing • and ‘bringing fire’ • are all superpowers characters have displayed. • Given that Stephanie is said to be a descendant of a great sorcerer, she potentially has supernatural powers yet to be revealed ... and they could be anything!
How about you? • What would your choice of one amazing superpower be? • Underwater breathing? Flying? Wall crawling? • Stopping time? Invisibility? Laser vision? • Think carefully about this. • You might want to list some ideas before deciding on one.
Celebrity superpowers • It is interesting that many celebrities such as • Jamie Oliver, • David Attenborough, • Charlotte Church and Bruce Willis would choose the superpower of flight. • Only a cloak of invisibilitywould satisfy Gok Wan and Katie Price, but Nick Clegg and David Cameron both favour the gift of teleportationto save on travel time. • Tom Jones just desires immortality!
How about you? • The BIG QUESTION is, • does your new power prove to be a blessing or a curse • in your everyday life? • [Think about all different scenarios ...]
Not-so superpower • Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem about King Midas, who was granted his wish for the superpower of a golden touch (everything he touched turned to gold – including • food, the cat ... the toilet). • Duffy wrote her poem from King Midas’s wife’s perspective to demonstrate the influence of his ‘superpower’ on her life. • When the poem opens, she is ignorant of the king’s bestowed gift. Cooking their supper, she looks from the steamed-up kitchen window and thinks her husband is fitting gold fairy lights in the pear tree! • Listen to this reading of the poem to see how it only got worse.
Superpower poetry Having chosen a superpower you are now going to write your own poem in Free Verse. In your poem write either as yourself or as an observer (mum, dad, a friend, brother, sister or other relation). Reveal in detail how the chosen superpower affects your everyday life – you may chose to write about an amusing incidentor about something amazing or even a terrible mishap.
Superpower poetry You might try to keep your power secret or be boastful about it and show it off or it might prove to be a burden. Make your poem engaging and entertaining. Free verse is easy as long as you can get creative. Free Verse is very flexible since it has few rules.
Superpower poetry • Without set rules, free verse poems do not need to have a certain structure and you are freeto decide where to break your poem into verses (stanzas). • The lines can be long and short. • A great thing about free verse poems is that you do not need to worry about rhyming (if the odd line here and there rhymes, that doesn’t matter either!). • It is important for you to feel that the poem you write does have a natural flow to it. • Free verse uses descriptive and vivid language.
To get you thinking ... • Here are a few examples of openings using Free Verse: • 1. Nothing's changed except me and the facts • And the sadness I didn't mean to start. • I thought the world was mine once I • Could read minds ... • 2.I was peeling potatoes for a shepherd’s pie • When he wandered in from school in his crumpled uniform • Secretive and giggly – almost high. • One minute he was standing by the fridge and then he’d • Gone!
