American Primitive: Poems 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. Titles

Have the students break into groups. Have each group create a new and more fitting title for this book. Make sure they are ready to defend their choice.

2. Swamp Obstacle Course

Create an obstacle course to symbolize the events illustrated in 'Crossing the Swamp'. Have the students complete this course and discuss how this affected them, and why something like this would have been so important to the author.

3. Art in Multiple Mediums

Create a piece...
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