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Narnia and Middle Earth—what delightfully intriguing places to visit!
Enjoy this compilation of activities involving C. S. Lewis’s Narnia and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
Suitable for anyone who is old enough to read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, other Narnia tales, The Hobbit, or The Lord of the Rings.
Your students haven’t read those books? No problem. Many of the prompts and tutorials below are freestanding and don’t need the original books.
Ready? Put on your magic rings!
Narnia
Download this free character study for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe from Ben and Me here. >>
Let your students change the story’s point of view with this prompt based on C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew here. >>
(No need to have read the book. Everything they need is in the prompt.)
Talking animals? Your students will write from an animal’s perspective in this fun prompt. >>
Interested in the Ice Queen motif or motifs in general? Then head on over to this chilly prompt. >>
Check out Their Blood Tingled, our junior high literature course based on C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew , here. >>
Middle Earth
The One Ring in Middle Earth makes the wearer invisible. Explore invisibility with this prompt. >>
In this rich paragraph from The Lord of the Rings, students learn about and practice the climactic paragraph with the topic sentence at the end.
Bilbo refuses to get involved with the wizard or the dwarves in The Hobbit. This refusal is an integral part of the hero’s journey plot. Read more about it in this Hobbit Day prompt. >>
Students learn how authors put their characters into hot water in this bundle of prompts loaded with examples. >>
Yours for more vibrant writing and literature experiences,
