OLE' lessons: Destiny by Design

Chapters Fourteen & Fifteen

Culture Shock. We’ve all experienced it at one time or another. Pete goes through it in a big way when arriving at the academy where he is confronted with beings out of a fairy tale in a place more fantastical than anything he could imagine.

You may be going through some of that too, diving into this strange new world. After all, the last book took place in a setting you’re used to. A few unusual things happened, but by and large the events were “normal.” Things will be far less normal from here on out! Additionally, there is a lot of information to take in when reading this installment. It has the densest content of any novella in the series, so just take your time with it and enjoy the process. We’re not going anywhere.

👀 LESSON AT-A-GLANCE

🤓 Theme Overview (above)
⏰ Timeframe
📋 Supplies
🏫 Academic Activities
... Multigenerational Meanwhile ideas
🔗 Lesson Links (vocab, quizzes, answers, prompts etc)
📐📏 Skills & Disciplines
⏩ Link to next lesson

🔚 At the end of (or after) the lesson

♟️Omnopoly Quiz Game
📓 Ponderlings
✍️ Memoir Writing Prompt
⛺️🗓️ Today's Story Advent{ure} Calendar action (if applicable)
☎️ 🌊 This week's FATHOMS group call (optional)

⏰ Time: 50-60 minutes depending on your chosen activities.

Add 15-30 minutes for Omnopoly Quiz Game, Vocab Quiz, Ponderlings, and Memoir Writing Prompt (which can be done at any time after the session) + as much time as you like for Multigenerational Meanwhile activities

🔗 NOTE: LINKS ON THIS PAGE ARE LIGHT BLUE (or pink if you've already visited the link)

📋 SUGGESTED SUPPLIES

☐ Your Teachizz edition and your student's digital or tactile version of Destiny by Design

☐ Drawing paper

☐ Markers, colored pencils, pens, pencils

☐ "Memoirs" from Marked for Adventure

☐ Piddlypedia student handbook (you can purchase the paperback on Amazon or get a digital version for free by clicking on the header/banner on the Omni Ocademy website)

☐ Manila envelope in which to put Piddlypedia

☐ Dictionary

☐ Access to internet for chapter links, Omnopoly, Ponderlings, and research questions

☐ Any story accessories you acquired such as the Advent{ure} Calendar, tactile inserts, ComiColoring Companion

🎁 Experience Enhancers: Fantasy music, simple refreshments as fit the time of day (keep water on hand)

🏫 ACTIVITIES by Category

(choose the activities that are right for you)

Before lesson or during a break, surreptitiously place a copy of Piddlypedia on student's bed

1. ⏪ RECAP previous chapter — As you recall ... We left Pete after he'd just put his hand in a gopher hole and was yanked through to the other side. The portal then closed behind him.

🧠 Memory question: Who are Etta & Leon?
🧠 How do people use the phrase Good Gobfinkl!e?

2. 🎭 RE-ENACT & Act (See Supplies List above for Cosplay props)

Being pulled through portal
Play charades to depict each element-based Brink and what it's like going through it

3. 🎨 🦄 IMAGINE, DRAW, MAKE

Design your own Hub shop
Draw one of the "beings" you might expect to find at the school
Draw Pete's portal from one side or the other

4. 🔍 RESEARCH

What is the name of the unusual language mentioned? [Naturim]
Why does white light break up into a rainbow of colors?

5. 🍎 STUDENT TEACHING

Have students explain the Duralasigna and what the Naturim words shown mean in English

6. 💬 🤔 DISCUSS & DEDUCE (includes highlight topics from Teachizz edition)

Refer to passages in the book that deal with the theme of culture shock
How would you feel about encountering new people, new languages, and new species!
Why is Chapter 15 called Circulars? What does the word apply to? [The student handbook also known as a circular, the shape of Pete's room, the shape of the furnishings in the room]
🧮 How much is "17 short of 500?" [483]
What are "talismans", and what do people use them for?
What sort of things would the various shops in The Hub sell?
What content linked in the chapters was the students' favorite & why?

7. X XTRAS

Have students arrange things in their bedroom in rainbow-color order to mimic the look of Pete's temporary room. (This can be a sneaky way to get them to clean their room!)
🧠 Circulars memory exercise

{click on image to enlarge & print}

*indicates a character or activity not specified in the narrative

a perfect way for group members who are either too young or too advanced for the lesson's specific subject matter to get involved

Have a *narrator read aloud parts of the story while others re-enact
Have members of the group portray the fellow who pulls Pete through the portal, the annoying kids standing behind Pete, and some of the “beings”
Have someone portray the baritone
Let wee ones color the carousel (click on image above to enlarge, download, and print)
Use Duralusignia image to familiarize with Naturim letters and numbers
Have the study group do *a virtual walk around The Hub shops and identify them based on the cover of the novella
*Have a student close their eyes and then have someone else gently grab the front of their shirt and lead them (eyes still closed) to their "temporary quarters" where the Piddlypedia book awaits on a bed
*Set up trinkets around a corner of the house to serve as JuJu's and have someone play the owner
*Have group members who are not participating in the lesson design signs for Dregs & Doubloons buried treasure shop and Wieldings’ Weaponry
*If you have older kids or siblings around, have them portray the upperclassmen who laugh, react, and jump into combat stances!
Have members of the group who are not taking the class as a student participate in the Omnopoly Quiz Game, Ponderlings, and writing prompts for fun