The Arabian Nights | 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. Arabian Nights Dating Game

Arabian Nights dating game! Have students play the roles of respective political or worker figures of the times. Have the female students be the daughters of rich foreign royals. All participating male students must thoroughly research their roles, and female students must also guess the titles of the contestants at some point in the game.

2. Shahrazad News Report

In pairs, students create scripts and performances of a TV news report on Shahrazad's feat. The report...
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