Leaving Home

• Share the title without showing the picture. Ask children to draw what they imagine this picture to look like. Then show them this photograph. What’s similar/different? What did you expect? What’s surprising?
• Why is this picture called ‘Leaving Home’?
• Whose home is this?
• Who is the person leaning out of the window upstairs?
• Is there anyone else in the building?
• How is the building moving? Why? Who made it this way?
• If you could move your house to another place in the world, where would you move it to and why?
• Why would someone want to keep their home but change where it is that they live?
• Compare this picture with Carl Fredricksen’s story in Disney/Pixar’s Up [trailer here: Up trailer]. Why did Carl want to move his house? Which is the best way to move a house? [Use this clip up to 1.10: The Flying House. Why did Carl push all of the furniture out of the house? How well can he control the house when it’s flying?]

Credit: Erik Johansson
www.erikjohanssonphoto.com