A Year in Provence 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. House Picture

Using what is given in the book create a picture of the house the Mayles buy in Provence. You can use any medium: pencil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, pastel, acrylic or pen and ink.

2. Skit

Write a skit using characters from the book. You can put the characters in any situation you want to invent, but they must remain true to their character in personality and speech.
Some of the students of the class can act...
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