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Floodland Worksheet 5A

Add your ideas to the mind map below as you discuss and explore the story. Think about how they link to the story and Zoe’s situation.

Lessons Zoe could learn

Other interesting

points

Similarities to Floodland

Differences to Floodland

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Floodland Worksheet 5B

Add your ideas to the mind map below as you discuss and explore each story. Think about how they link to the story and Zoe’s situation.

Noah’s Ark

Doctor Foster

Brother Elmer

The Little Girl Lost

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Floodland Worksheet 5C

Noah’s Ark

What are any similarites or differences between this story and ‘Floodland’?

What do you think the lesson/moral is for this story?

Why do you think William told Zoe this story?

Add your ideas to the boxes below as you discuss and explore each story. Think about how they link to the story and Zoe’s situation.

Brother Elmer




The Little Girl Lost




Doctor Foster





Floodland: Reading Comprehension Challenge Cards 5A

Making links between stories

• Read the story card. What are the main similarities between the story on the cards and ‘Floodland’?

• What are the main differences between the story on the cards and ‘Floodland’?

• Is there a moral to the story? • Why do you think William told the story to Zoe? • What do you think this story could teach Zoe? • Did William get any parts of the story wrong? • Do you know of any other stories, myths or fables

that you think William could have told Zoe to help her?

















Floodland: Reading Comprehension Story Card 5A

Do father, mother weep “Where can Lyca sleep”.

Lost in desert wild Is your little child.

This quote is from William Blake’s poem ‘The Little Girl Lost’.

The poem was written in 1794 in a collection of poems.

It is about a little seven year-old girl, Lyca, who has wandered into nature.

Whilst Lyca is quite happy to be in nature, feeling safe and positive about her

surroundings, her parents fret and worry about her being in danger. They weep over the fact that she is lost and in harm’s way,

worrying about where and how Lyca will sleep whilst they are so worried about her.

William only quotes four lines from the poem (pg 60). Why do you think he chose these lines? How do they link to Zoe’s situation?

Can you see any other links between this section of the poem and the story in ‘Floodland’? Why do you think the author chose to include these links?

Do you think William means Zoe is the little girl lost in the poem? What evidence do you have to support this idea?

Do you think he might mean that Zoe’s boat is the little girl lost, and Zoe is one of the parents from the poem?



It takes a little while for William to remember this nursery rhyme in the story (pg 47, 79 & 84) but he clearly feels

something in the rhyme will help Zoe.

This is one of the last stories William recounts to Zoe before the battle which takes his life. He gets most excited when he remembers where the

doctor went. Why do you think this is?

Do you think the whole nursery rhyme will help Zoe or just part of it? Which parts of the rhyme might be relevant to Zoe’s journey?

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester, In a shower of rain;

He stepped in a puddle, Right up to his middle,

And never went there again.

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What similarities, differences and links can you make with the story of Noah’s Ark and the story of ‘Floodland’ so far?

Noah’s Ark Thousands of years ago, the world was a bad place. People behaved badly and had forgotten about God. God was angry. He decided he would cause a flood to destroy all the people on Earth. The only good man was Noah so God decided he would save Noah and his family. God told Noah to build an ark (which is a big boat, a very big boat!). Noah and his family spent a long time building the ark until it was ready. God told Noah to load the boat with two of every kind of animal in the world, a male and a female of each kind so that the animals wouldn’t die out when the floods came. Noah did as God said. When the rain started to fall, Noah and his family went into the ark with all the animals. They had to make sure they had enough food for themselves to eat, as well as for the animals on the boat. It rained and rained without stopping for 40 days and 40 nights. Finally the rain ended but it had rained so much that the whole Earth was covered in water. There was no land so everyone had to stay on the ark for a long time. God remembered Noah and his family and sent the winds to blow the water away and the sun to dry up the water covering Earth. Finally, after seven months, the ark rested on the top of a mountain. After a week, Noah sent out a dove. The dove came back with an olive branch in its mouth. Noah knew that the floods had now gone down enough to get off the ark. When they were safely off the ark, Noah built an altar to thank God for keeping them safe. When God saw this, he made a promise to Noah that never again would he destroy all the people on Earth with a flood, no matter how badly they behaved. He sent a rainbow as a sign of his promise to Noah.

Noah’s Ark is a well-known story from the book of Genesis in the Bible. William talks to Zoe about the story briefly (pg 47 & 48) and Zoe begins to recognise it as a story she was told by her mother.

Many religious stories are told to teach people lessons about humanity, how to behave and worship a god. What do you think this story’s lesson

is?

Why do you think William thought Zoe should hear this story? How does it relate to her current situation?



Brother Elmer Brother Elmer was a monk who lived in Wiltshire, England during the 11th century. In his youth, Elmer had read and believed the Greek fable of Icarus and his father who had escaped from a tower using wings the father build from wax and feathers. Bother Elmer believed the story so strongly that he built himself a pair of similar wings which he strapped to his arms and legs.Wearing his contraption, he launched himself from the top of a tower of the Abbey in Malmesbury. It is told that he was airborne for around 15 seconds and flew more than 200m. Upon landing, he broke both of his legs and was unable to walk ever again. He later blamed the crash landing on the fact that his contraption didn’t have a tail.

Do you think there are any other lessons to be learnt from this story being told? What did you learn from this story?

Which of these interpretations do you think would help Zoe the most in her situation? Why do you think that?

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This story has been interpreted in three different ways:

This story is often retold to warn people to think about the consequences of their actions. Brother Elmer was

impulsive and if he had thought about his idea a little more, he could have prevented

his injury.

Another moral is that you should be careful not to

believe everything you’re told. Some stories are meant to be fantasy in order to get their lesson across. You should believe what you want to

believe, not what you’re told to.

Finally, the story can be told to warn of the dangers of being over-confident and being overly-focused on

personal ambition. Taking the time to look at the bigger picture and being cautious,

can sometimes be more appropriate.

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