Amulet: the stonekeeper: Stonekeeper: Volume 1

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How to accept and meet the burdens and challenges of responsibility to one’s family and one’s community; Wildsmith, Snow (December 23, 2010). "Review: Amulet, Vol. 1-3". School Library Journal "Good Comics for Kids" blog . Retrieved March 2, 2013.

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In graphic novels, images are used to relay messages with and without accompanying text, adding additional dimension to the story. In Amulet Kibuishi weaves a story, full of emotions and insights through the use of text, image and design. For example: Leon Redbeard, like many other citizens of Kanalis, came under the effects of a curse during his human childhood, causing him to become a humanoid fox (with others in the city becoming different animals). Leon's father was a guard of the jail where the Elf King was kept imprisoned, and was later killed when the King escaped. After this event Leon decided to avenge his father and worked for the Guardian Council to defeat the Elf King, and so looked for Emily per their request. In the second and third books, Leon is able to teach Emily basic lessons on how to wield the amulet's power, teaching her to channel her energy through a staff and how to protect items and beings using her stone. In the fourth book, Leon helps Enzo and Alyson Hunter free Trellis and Craft and structure: Interpreting words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings and analyzing how specific word choices shape meaning or tone; analyzing the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs and larger portions of the text relate to each other and the whole; Assessing how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. note: this guide covers volumes 1-6, although many of the activities will apply to any of the books in the entire series. Table of Contents In Book Four: The Last Council (p. 38-39), Mom tells Emily that, almost everywhere you go in life, “…you’re going to find something wrong with the place. That’s the way life is… You just have to be willing to follow their systems and do what you can to make things right.” Have students explain this and come up with examples of how in school and in their extended communities they can try to ‘make things right.’Once Emily and co. arrive in Kanalis, they are able to find a hospital clinic, almost getting ambushed along the way. The doctor tells them that he can not do anything, but that the only possible cure is the fruit of the Gadoba Trees, which are located in the Demon's Head Mountain. Leon Redbeard, a sword-fighting fox whom Emily had met earlier and saved them from an ambush, then appears, and he introduces himself and offers to help the stone keeper. While Miskit is still reluctant to trust Leon, Emily accepts his offer when Luger, another elf stonekeeper, locates them and destroys the hospital with cannon fire. Leon helps to lead everyone underground to escape through the subways. Leon tells Emily to come with him, much to Navin's outrage at the thought of them having to be separated. Emily reassures him that everything will be fine, while Miskit insists that he accompany them as Emily's guide. In Book Two: The Stonekeeper’s Curse (p. 99), Leon Redbeard and Emily discuss the choices she is facing. Discuss what Leon means when he says, “You must believe that you are here by choice and not by circumstance…You must…take control of your life and the stone will follow.” What might Leon’s implications entail?

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As of The Stonekeeper's Curse, she wears a button-up cerulean tunic-dress with a miniskirt, a pair of skin-tight pants (varying from the colors turquoise, teal, cyan, aquamarine, or aqua) under a pair of flat-heeled knee-high olive leather boots at the lower legs. She also wears elbow-length fingerless olive gauntlets on each forearm, wrist, and hand as well as a goldenrod cloak. Amulet is a graphic novel series illustrated and written by Kazu Kibuishi and published by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic. [1] [2] [3] It follows the adventures of Emily, a young girl who discovers a sentient and autonomous magical circular amulet in her maternal great-grandfather's house. The adventure continues across the next books in the series. The Hayes family attempts to get home, whilst learning more about Emily’s amulet and the extent of its powers. They cross paths with a cast of interesting characters, from a bipedal fox to a robotic chef. The art style skillfully combines fantasy and science fiction elements, with tiny details tying each panel into the next with the grace of a weaving spider. Knowing that Max has stolen the Mother Stone and taken it to the Elf King to forge new Amulets, Vigo and Emily face growing dangers as they try to stop the Elf King. The Cielis Guard (what’s left of the Cielis army) prepares to fight the elf army, but the enemy is getting stronger and the Elf King has begun to use the shard of the Mother Stone to create his own Guardian Council. As both sides prepare for war, Trellis and Emily (with the help of Vigo and others) discover that the stone allows them to go into the past. Emily, while always wary of the voice in the stone, is finding new evidence to support her misgivings. She and Trellis go into the past and find that Max is not exactly what he seems to be and that he has been controlled by the Voice of his Amulet. Emily also discovers that the Voice of her Amulet is more sinister than she originally feared.Like most elves, Trellis has grey skin, but with a lighter skin tone. He is shown to have long white hair, and in the beginning of the series had sharp teeth, but that was removed after the fifth book. He has a long stitched up scar on his left eye, which was given to him by his father when he was slapped as a child.

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Emily travels to Cielis, meets up with Trellis and Vigo. and then launches herself into space with the stone‘s power, with her destination being Typhon. Karp, Jesse (2012). Graphic Novels in Your School Library. Chicago: American Library Association. pp.70–71. ISBN 978-0-8389-1089-4. Trellis is the son of the Elf King and younger brother of Luger, as well as a stonekeeper and intended successor to the throne of Gulfen. After failing to capture Emily and having his act of interception at Gondoa Mountain seen as treason, Trellis and his brother Luger abandon the Elf King, eventually joining Emily and the Resistance after Emily defends them from the Elf King's soldiers. For more fun or if seeking resources for deeper literary analysis, here are some books/poems similar to Amulet that we’re sure you’ll enjoy. Chart and analyze and discuss how Kibuishi uses color, font, and design to separate scenes. Discuss the effectiveness of these visual cues.

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Outer-space flight: Emily Hayes is presumably the first stonekeeper to perform this technique. It's also a combination of a bubble and psychokinesis, combined with extremely immense/colossal hyper-speed and so much more air than a bubble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcNyqTde0Ns— Watch a video interview with Kazu Kibuishi on the process of making Amulet. History/ Social Studies: In Book Six: Escape from Lucien we meet the Resistance Army. Discuss why it is called a “Resistance Army” and compare this army (its structure, goals, and missions) to resistance armies throughout history. Little is known of the very first stonekeepers, other than some members of the Guardian Council were elves and humans, but it's known that fragments of the Mother Stone were used to create the smaller stones that present stonekeepers utilize. The first settlers of Alledia that discovered the Mother Stone used pieces of the stone to create the amulets, and stonekeepers used these amulets for the benefit and protection of Alledia. Silas Charnon was known to have been involved in their distribution, training young individuals in stonekeeping.

Amulet: The Stonekeeper: Book One by Kazu Kibuishi - review

How to learn to use your strengths and skills while accepting help from others when those strengths and skills are not enough; In Book Five: Prince of the Elves (p. 58), Vigo tells Emily that, “Sometimes personal desires and ambitions can cloud the judgment of even our brightest minds.” Explain what Vigo might mean, giving examples to support your interpretation. The children discover an alternate version of their grandfather Silas’s house, which is brimming with robotics ranging from the house itself, which flies, to a pink, bunny-shaped pilot. Emily and Navin learn that their mother has been captured by a race of ghastly monsters, and they must pilot the house to save and reunite her with the family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jA-jMpccRU (Part 1) — Watch a video interview with Kazu Kibuishi on the art of graphic novels (sponsored by Illustration.org). Learn how students have influenced the course and feel of Amulet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zji2QcW0Io— Kibuishi gives a workshop on how he draws and creates graphic novels.In Book Two: The Stonekeeper’s Curse (p. 125), Leon tells Emily and Navin why he’s helping them: “I am not motivated by vengeance. I do this to honor him.” What does Leon mean by this? How does Leon’s helping Emily and Navin help honor his father? Meanwhile, Trellis and Vigo look for Algos Island on a map, prompting Enzo to tell them that he is not surprised they could not find the island, since he had never heard of it before. He asks them what is on the island, demanding half of it. Trellis reveals they are going to look for his memories, so they can use them to their own advantage. Vigo first appears in the fourth book, when Cogsley and Miskit fall off the Luna Moth and he rescues them and brings them to his house. As a child, he befriended Max Griffin, who often had no friends due to his respect to elves, even though the specific elves he respected did a lot to help the city of Cielis. Soon after he joined the guardian council (the protectors of Cielis) he left because the council only made its decisions based on its fears. When he grew up, Vigo married someone, but after his wife died, his son made an attempt to travel into the past to revive her, a technique of using the power stonekeepers possessed that Silas had made a theory of, when really he was just entering his memories. He stayed in his memories for months, never waking up, then died, causing much grief to Vigo. In the other books, he tries his best to help the crew of the Luna Moth. He originally disliked Trellis, but became loving to him in the 5th book. In the sixth book, He mentioned that he didn't like leaving Emily with Gabilan as, by his once being a father, he had a father's instinct. He has a grey beard, and wears a blue overcoat. Interestingly, his stone is green and does not have the Voice's symbol on it, like all the other stones do.