Home Fire

Use this activity to engage all types of learners, while requiring that they refer to and incorporate details from the text over the course of the activity.

“Preventing Tragedy & Advocating for Change”

In this activity, students will consider what could have prevented Aneeka and Eamonn’s deaths at the end of the novel and will use those reasons to create an advocacy campaign.

Home Fire ends in tragedy, with Aneeka and Eamonn dying. As a class, consider the events of the novel and what led to these deaths. How could the English government have prevented these deaths by advocating for better treatment of its Muslim citizens?

• Using the “Pathos, Logos, and Ethos” resource from St. Louis Community College, work with a partner to come up with ethical, logical, and emotional appeals to lawmakers.
• Codify your appeals into an outline of an advocacy campaign, complete with a targeted audience, message, and product(s).
• Then, as the first step in your advocacy campaign, write a letter to Karamat Lone explaining why you think that he should change his approach to British Muslim citizens and end his campaign for assimilation.

o Use at least one of each type of appeal to compose a persuasive missive.

o You may also draw on events in the novel and Tone’s own feelings after his son’s death to inform your message.