That aside, Theresa Heskins’s direction lacks nothing in verve and elan. Also, I wondered why, when the French are represented by berets and baguettes, Italians by straw boaters and ice-cream, and people in Hong Kong by coolie hats, Native Americans were removed altogether and replaced by cowboys. While all this is indubitably rollicking good fun, I missed Verne’s sly, ironic sideswipes at stock market and empire (comments on colonialism given to Mrs Aouda came across as forced). Watch a video interview with the cast of Around the World in 80 Days. The energetic, eight-strong cast, not content with impersonating around 100 characters, enlist audience assistance to help conjure illusions – all the while keeping disbelief bobbingly suspended. On stage, these are dextrously assembled by the performers from suitcases, clothing and an umbrella: Lis Evans’s minimal design maximises the potential in audience imagination. There is no balloon in Verne’s 1873 book, either – although one was introduced in the 1956 film version starring David Niven and Cantinflas – but there are trains and boats, an elephant and a sailing sledge. The miniature balloon rises, unused, into the shadows. “There is no balloon in the book!” admonishes Fogg, indicating the Bradshaw’s guide in the hands of his valet, Passepartout, who is desperately seeking a connection to get them home on time. From between the bars of the New Vic’s lighting rig, a miniature air balloon slowly descends. Phileas Fogg, having laid a £20,000 bet with his fellow whist players in London’s Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in only 80 days, is stranded in the United States. Homeschooling with literature in this way was great fun, and I would encourage you to try it! For more books dealing with homeschool geography, see Geography Homeschooling Books.L aura Eason’s 2013 adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days plays adroitly with audience expectations of Jules Verne’s story.
Re-discuss or mind map what is known about each country now.Food and Culture - spend one day eating/dressing like the country, and learning some words.For example, for France we looked at the Tour de France! Include map, postcards, photographs of famous landmarks/paintings/people, some foreign words, amazing facts, food details, Capital city. Discuss or Mind Map what is known about each country BEFORE starting.Print out some blank booklets and envelopes for journal.Get ready to plot trip on large map, globe or Google Earth.
We used the t-shirt picture from Shapebook Patterns to write clothes ideas in, and took photos of the other items we wanted to take (the journal, headtorches, sunglasses etc). I wanted each country to take up a double page spread, and to look like a lapbook (lots of envelopes, booklets, pictures etc.) I bought the children each a large notebook to use as a journal for the trip.
Around the world in 80 days games and activities zip#
The book does zip through countries fairly quickly, so plan your homeschool geography route beforehand. You could make a top trumps game using landmarks for the countries visited in the book. Homeschool geography game to go with the book. Rules for Whist is a simplified version for children, or Classic Rules of Whist is also available. Whist is played in several parts of the book.This might be a good time to introduce the bridge building game from There is a chapter in the book where the train Fogg is on has to go over a bridge that is in danger of collapsing.I feel I must mention the date line as it plays such an important part in the book!! I think the best explanation is probably from Wikipedia again but there is also a good explanation for children on this page (scroll down to 'Synchronise your Watches').
A good site for showing the length of daylight at different times is the Childrens University of Manchester.
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