Have your students engineer a possible solution for air contamination. One of the biggest worries in the book is inhaling infected air when a plague victim is around.Then translate it to a code like binary or a cipher like the Cesar cipher. Have your students pick a famous poem or write their own. Code your own poem like the one Cat decodes in the AI-Pigeons.Some possible classroom activities educators could use are (spoilers abound!): Suvada is a real-world coder and she provides an abundance of scientific backing in her fictional world. Overall, the STEM in this book is amazing. Her life changes when a secret agent named Cole- who is essentially a walking, talking top secret document- enters her life and says that Cat is the only one capable of curing the plague.
She lives the “normal” life of a surface dweller and spends her days fighting for her life and eating human flesh in order to gain immunity from the plague- Now that was a fun reversal of the zombie trope.
Our main character, Cat, is a genetic hacker, capable of curing illness and causing destruction with a single line of code. That said, This Mortal Coil is so much more.
It seems like the perfect set-up for a STEAM-y book. The only problem? Almost everyone has been forced to live in underground bunkers because of a nasty plague that is killing humans on the surface. The supercomputers allow their users to change the way they look and see the world through a genetic computer code. The story takes place in a dystopian future where all humans are born with a supercomputer built into one of their arms. Let me say that even with the educator’s convincing pitch and the novel’s well-received kirkus review, I still wasn’t prepared for what This Mortal Coil dished out. The book was This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada. We were just recovering from the crazy awesomeness that was FEED: The STEM Read Experience when a teacher approached us, eager to talk about a new book that we hadto cover.
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