StormBreaker Work Booklet

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Chapter 10

Pretend you are Alex. Your mission is to re-write an excerpt from this chapter sharing your thoughts and
feelings as it happened. Make the scene as exciting as you can and be sure to use lots of Adjectives when
describing what happened.

You have the choice of re- writing the full chapter by yourself OR filling in the blanks in
Scaffold version. You may attempt either option or both.

Here is an Example of how you might start it

Ouch! It sure hurt when I hit the ground and ran into that ditch, but I knew I had to keep going, the roaring
sound of the engine was edging closer and closer to me. Vrooom! Before I knew it the engine raced over
my head nearly taking it off, at this point I was terrified. I looked up and saw a dark shadowy figure on a
Quad Bike and wondered why this man was trying to kill me.
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Scaffolded Version
Ouch! It sure hurt when I hit the ground and ran into that ditch, but I knew I had to keep going, the roaring
sound of the engine was edging closer and closer to me. Vrooom! Before I knew it the engine raced over
my head nearly taking it off, at this point I was terrified. I looked up and saw a dark shadowy figure on a
Quad Bike and wondered why this man was trying to kill me.
Fill in the blanks with words you think will fit.
I got to my feet and began ___________ as fast as I could. As I looked back I could see two ________ quad
bikes at this point I was feeling _______. Both of the quad bikes were circling me like ______ until one of
them started ________ towards me. To avoid being run over I _______ out of the way crashing into the
________ , _________ ground. OUCH! I _______ as I looked at my _________ shoulder it was so ________.
I knew I had to find a hiding place but there was nowhere to hide apart from the ______ grass. I ran
through the grass as ______ as I could while every blade of grass was__________ my face. Phew! I
thought to myself I had finally escaped these _______ men. Vroom! There was that noise of the engines
again, my heart was_________ I thought I was going to _______. The roaring was getting louder and
louder and I knew I was in _________. My heart was _________ so fast as I realised the two bikes were
holding a cheese wire they were planning to ________ me in half. I dived to the ground to avoid getting
_______ into pieces, this time I twisted my knee, and I think I might have ________ it.

Chapter 11 – ‘Dozmary Mine’

1. What are the seagulls doing?

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2. Why is Alex in the library?

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3. What does Alex realise about the code CL 475/19?

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4. How does Alex figure out that his uncle had drawn a map showing a path through the Dozmary
Mine?

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5. Why is Alex in a hurry to get to the mine?

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6. How does Horowitz describe how scary the mine was on page 160?

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7. What is the simile on page 163? (a simile is where one thing is said to be ‘like’ something else to
create an image)

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8. Using a few sentences summarise the chapter in your own words

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Chapter 12 – ‘Behind the Door’

1. How did he know that his uncle had already been there before him?

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2. What did Alex find behind the metal door?

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3. What questions does Alex have after he looks behind the metal door?

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4. How does Alex escape the guard?

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5. Give a labelled drawing of what is behind the big metal door OR write three sentences describing it.

Labelled drawing

Three sentences

Chapter 13& 14
In these chapters we find out what Herod Sayle’s plans are with StormBreaker.

Activity
Pretend you are a talk show host on a news program and you are interviewing Herod Sayle. With a partner
you are to come up with interview questions that you can ask Herod Sayle. You might ask him questions
about StormBreaker and about his plans with it. Once you have come up with the questions come up with
answers to the questions. Once you have finished act it out with you partner, one person will be the
interviewer and the other will be Herod Sayle.
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EXAMPLE
Interviewer- Hi Herod Sayle how are you today
Herod- I am good thank you, thanks for having me
Interviewer- what is StormBreaker and how does it work?

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Chapter 15
Throughout the book we have seen Alex use many of his cool gadgets. In this chapter Alex uses one of
his in this chapter Alex uses his Yo-yo to help him get onto the plane.
Your task is to create three gadgets that you think would be very helpful for Alex. It can be a whole new
Gadget or another game for the Game Boy, it is your choice. If you can create three interesting and cool
gadgets you will win a prize.

Gadget What does it do?

1. Yo-yo with 30 metres of strong
nylon and a motorised clip
2. Zit cream
When Yo-yo is fired it shoots a harpoon that attaches to high
objects. When you press the button, the motor pulls you up.
Rub it on any metal surface. It will chew through the metal like
acid allowing entry anywhere.
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 3. Game Boy- NEMESIS Acts as a fax machine where Alex can send back important
information to MRS Jones office in London
4. Game Boy- EXOCET When this game inserted the Game Boy turns into an X ray
machine allowing you to see through walls
5. Game Boy- SPEED Acts as a scanner allowing you to see any hidden bugs in the
room.
6. Game Boy- BOMBER When you press the start button three times it will turn into a
smoke bomb allowing a quick escape

Draw an image of the Gadget and label it so we so we can see what it looks like and how it works.

Gadget 1 Gadget 2 Gadget 3

Chapter 16 & 17
1. How does Alex get off the plane?

2. What happens to Mr Grin?

3. How does Alex get into the museum?

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 4. What happens to Herod Sayle at the end of this chapter?

5. What word on page 219 means “fancy”?

6. Why does MI6 lie to the people of England and say that there was an electrical fault with the
Stormbreaker computers?

7. What is in the envelope that Mrs Jones gives to Alex? What was he expecting?

8. What surprise does Alex get when he gets into the taxi?

9. What does Yassen do to Alex? Why?

Extension Activities- For those who already finished the book

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Activity: Summarise the plot of StormBreaker in 25 words or less using the template below. Use the
words chosen to write a paragraph summarising the whole story.

Activity: Complete the following summary cloze passage on Stormbreaker. You’ve been given the first
letter of each word, and a bank of words at the end of the activity to help you be successful.

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StormBreaker by A____________ Horowitz is the first novel to feature teenage s____________, Alex Rider.
In this novel, Alex's uncle dies in what he is told is a car a____________. However, after doing some
investigating on his own, Alex discovers his uncle was actually m____________. Convinced he never really
knew his uncle, Alex continues to try to find out why someone would kill him. This leads to a
m____________ with Uncle Ian's employers who tell Alex his uncle was a spy for a special d____________
of the MI6. Alex is b____________ into finishing his uncle's case, a case that could lead to Alex's own
murder. StormBreaker is an exciting, s____________ novel that jumpstarts the career of a highly unusual
spy.

Alex Rider wakes in the middle of the n____________ to hear the p____________ knocking on the door.
The housekeeper, Alex's good friend Jack Starbright, opens the door to learn that Alex's uncle, Ian Rider,
has been killed in a car accident. Ian has been Alex's g____________ since the death of his parents when
he was an infant; therefore, his death leaves Alex w____________ a r____________ to care for him.

The f____________ is planned and executed by a man from the b____________ where Ian was an
executive. At the funeral, Alex sees the head of the bank, a cold man called Blunt. When Alex and Jack
return home from the funeral, they find that the o____________ Ian always kept l____________ is now
open and completely empty. This leads Alex to wonder if his uncle was really just a bank official.

Alex begins looking into his uncle's death, b____________ with the accident itself. Alex goes to the
s____________ yard where he believes his uncle's car was taken. The car is there, but it was not
d____________ in a car wreck. However, there are b____________ holes all along the driver's side door.
Alex is about to leave when he hears people coming, so he jumps into the car. A moment later the car is
lifted and put into a c____________. Alex just barely escapes death.

A few days later, Alex is called to the bank to talk about his uncle's will. While waiting for the executive
scheduled to s____________ to him, Alex sneaks into his uncle's office. Alex is c____________ and
knocked unconscious with a d____________. When Alex wakes, he finds himself inside a house at a
t____________ facility. Blunt is there with a woman called Mrs. Jones. They tell Alex that his uncle worked
for a s____________ division of MI6. Ian was working on a case involving a b____________ tycoon who
recently announced the d____________ of thousands of computers to English school children. Blunt then
tells Alex that they would like him to finish what Ian started by going into the company p____________ to
be a young man who won a contest to try out the c____________. Alex refuses.

Blunt tells Alex that the bank controls his i____________. If Alex refuses to help, they will sell his
h____________, send Jack back to A____________, and place Alex in an orphanage. For this reason, Alex
agrees. For the following few weeks, Alex is put through t____________ with other men who are joining
MI6 or the S____________ Air Service. These men resent having a child there and treat Alex poorly, but he
proves himself by keeping up with them. After two weeks, Alex is sent to Sayle Enterprises to begin his
a____________. Almost immediately Alex finds evidence his uncle left behind.

Alex q____________ begins following the c____________ his uncle left behind and comes to realize that
Herod Sayle has i____________ a modified s____________ virus into each computer with the
i____________ of having the Prime Minister kill all of England's school c____________ with the push of
one button. Alex is caught s____________, but he escapes the many attempts on his life to reach the Prime
Minister moments before d____________ can strike.

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 Wordbank:
Spy Suspenseful Accident
Police Anthony Night
Training Funeral Without
Bank Business Dart
Damaged Relative Beginning
Blackmailed Salvage Crusher
Implanted Locked Guardian
Office Murdered Special
Division Training Meeting
America Speak House
Inheritance Special Bullet
Intention Spying Disaster
Pretending Computers Donation
Caught Assignment Quickly
Clues Smallpox Children

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Add a Chapter

For those of you who have finished reading your book you are to have a go at this task.

When you have finished the very last page of a great story, do you ever find yourself
thinking ‘ I wonder what happened next’? Think carefully about the book you have just read.
Kick your imagination into high gear, and tell what you think would occur in the following
chapter if there was a following chapter. Make sure to give your chapter a title!

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