300 Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Watch the Movie 300

Have students assemble to watch the movie 300 with the rest of the class and then discuss what they thought about the representation on film.

2. Create Your Own Comic Book

Have students create their own depiction of that final battle between the Persians and the Spartans.

3. What About Sparta?

Have students do more research on the Spartans and what they were like when they were around. Was the graphic novel true to the real character...
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