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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
ENGLISH LESSON NOTES – CLASS 10

MODULE 37: The Book That Saved the Earth

Objective
 To introduce the concept of Aliens, Martians.
 To help the students think futuristically.
 To introduce the main ideas of a play.
 To appreciate the humour in the play.
 To enable the students to stage a play

Summary of ‘The Book that saved the Earth’
This article focuses on- ‘The Book that Saved the Earth’ summary. The author of the play is
Claire Bioko. The play is all about the imaginary world. The characters of the play are Think
Tank, Noodle, Oop, Omega, etc. They are the Martians, and the time set in the play is the
twentieth century. All the characters reached to a library on Earth and misinterpret the books
with sandwiches. Later they try to understand the rhymes in the book. They felt that they are
in danger and immediately left the Earth. Hence, a mere children’s rhymes book saved the
Earth from the Martian invasion. The play illustrates in detail how the book saved the Earth
from the Martians invasion

Introduction to the Lesson
The book that saved the Earth is a story that revolves around a book of nursery rhyme titled
‘the Mother Goose’ that has been picturised as the book that saved the Earth from an alien
attack. The story begins with a historian that describes to the audience that how one day in
the twentieth century Martians planned to attack the Earth. The crew lands in a library on
Earth; they try to find out the meaning of the content of the books which they mistook as a
sandwich. There they come across a rhyme on Humpty dumpty which resembles their
master Think Tank. They all get terrified with the idea of their master losing control over
Mars because of humans and cancel their plan of invading Earth.

The Book that Saved the Earth Summary
The story begins with a stage show of twenty fifth century in which a historian is sitting in
the museum and she explains the truth about the Martian invasion that happened in
twentieth century. To prove her statement she asks the audience to look into the
historiscope, a device that can show things happened in the history. In the next scene, two
characters are shown one of them which has a balloon brain is shown as the master. His
name is Think Tank and another one is his assistant Noodle. Both of them are discussing
about their plan to invade Earth. They think that Earth is a ridiculous plan and they should
invade Earth so as to establish their kind rule over the planet. So, the master Think Tank
sends one of his crew to inspect Earth. The crew lands into a library and look confuse as
they know nothing about the items (books) of the library. So, they consult it with their
master Think Tank, who they think is very intelligent. He asks them to show the item and
tells them that they are sandwiches, a staple diet of the Earthlings. He commands his crew
to eat it, which they then consider as a tasteless eatable. His assistant Noodle corrects him
and tells him that they are the communication devices. He on hearing this, asks his crew to