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Number One

Here are some possible topics and their related books for Badge Number One. 

If you can think of something else linked to the Number ONE, or if you read a book which is not mentioned below, that is absolutely fine! Just make sure you can explain why and how your chosen book relates to this number.


Other suggestions: the chosen one; the hero (e.g. Achilles as the best fighter, Hercules as the strongest hero)

The Cyclops

The Pyramid of Giza

The Cyclops

The cyclops only had one eye! Try to read a book that includes a cyclops, or another creature with a single eye? For example...




KS2: Cyclops - Leonard Everett Fisher


KS3: Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan


KS4: The Penelopiad -Margaret Atwood


KS5: The Odyssey - Homer


Pompeii

The Pyramid of Giza

The Cyclops

A single volcanic eruption preserved a slice of Roman life for thousands of years. There are lots of fiction and non-fiction books about this famous event. For example,,, 


KS2: Escape from Pompeii – Christina Balit


KS3: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 – Lauren Tarshis


KS4: Pompeii – Robert Harris


KS5: Pompeii: City on Fire – T.L. Higley

The Pantheon

The Pyramid of Giza

The Pyramid of Giza

The Pantheon a temple celebrating all the gods. It also featured a single round hole in the middle of its dome, called the oculus! 


KS2: See Inside Ancient Rome - Katie Daynes


KS3: The Roman Pantheon: The History and Legacy of Rome’s Famous Landmark  – Charles River Editors


KS4: Angels & Demons - Dan Brown


KS5: Pantheon: Book One of the Fallen Olympians Series - Gary Devore


The Pyramid of Giza

The Pyramid of Giza

The Pyramid of Giza

The Ancient World had Seven Ancient Wonders, but only one survives today! 




KS2: The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder


KS3: The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan


KS4: The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho


KS5: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Sunday Times Bestseller - Bettany Hughes

The Oracle of Delphi

The Oracle of Delphi

The Oracle of Delphi

A single priestess of Apollo at Delphi, considered the most important oracle in ancient Greece. 


KS2: Oracles of Delphi Keep - Victoria Laurie


KS3: The Roman Mysteries: The Beggar of Volubilis - Caroline Lawrence


KS4: The Delphi Effect - Rysa Walker 


KS5: Oracles of Delphi: A Novel of Suspense (An Althaia of Athens Mystery) - Marie Savage

The Minotaur

The Oracle of Delphi

The Oracle of Delphi

A unique creature in ancient Greek mythology, with the head of a bull and the body of a man! 



KS2: Theseus and the Minotaur - Hugh Morden Lupton


KS3: Lost in the Labyrinth - Patrice Kindl


KS4: Bull - David Elliott 


KS5: Once a Monster - Robert Dinsdale

The Rosetta Stone

The Oracle of Delphi

The Rosetta Stone

This stone tablet was the only object that allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics! How about a book about hieroglyphics? 


KS2: Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Hidden Hieroglyphics - Mike Nicholson


KS3: Ancient Communication Technology: From Hieroglyphics to Scrolls - Michael Woods


KS4: Nephthys - Rachel Louise Driscoll


KS5

This stone tablet was the only object that allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics! How about a book about hieroglyphics? 


KS2: Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Hidden Hieroglyphics - Mike Nicholson


KS3: Ancient Communication Technology: From Hieroglyphics to Scrolls - Michael Woods


KS4: Nephthys - Rachel Louise Driscoll


KS5: The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone - Edward Dolnick

Aten

The Oracle of Delphi

The Rosetta Stone

While Ancient Egyptian religion was mostly polytheistic, there was a short period where only one god - Aten - was worshipped! 


KS2: Egyptian Myths - Jean Menzies


KS3: The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan


KS4: Nefertiti - Michelle Moran


KS5: Divine Interruption - Katy Metz

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