Suggested activities for members of Chipsa’s Peace Academy (the Chipsa fan club on Planet Earth):
When sending an email to us, choose a name for yourself to protect your privacy. You can select a character from the story and add a number after it, such as "Koshter022."
- Who is your favorite character in The Letters and Diaries of Queen Chipsa? Write one paragraph on this topic and email it to the Editor Alan Eddy at sirpatrickofnye@gmail.com. He will forward it on to Chipsa.
- Additional reading:
- YA fiction: The Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin — A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore
- General fiction: Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin, The Beacon at Alexandria by Gillian Bradshaw
- General nonfiction: Farming While Black by Leah Penniman, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
- Make a donation to one of The Three Charities. By supporting the three charities, you will help Planet Earth become more like the Land of Nye, in terms of peace, justice, and sustainability.
- Select one of the Study Questions (page 183, Part 3), Discussion Questions (page 184, Part 3), or one of the research prompts in the Index of Botanical Names (oak, page 176, wheat, page 177, or timothy, page 179, all in Part 3). Write an answer to the question and send it to sirpatrickofnye@gmail.com. Select your best answer to send.
- Note that Chipsa’s birthday is January 7. If you want to celebrate the birthday of the Count of the Western Marches, Freya Finn, or Tilia Finn, choose any day you wish.