Arcadia 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. Regency-Wear

Students will create visuals of characters in the play in their appropriate period costumes, accompanying the visuals with a paragraph exploring the significance of the clothing of that era to the development of character.

2. Family Feud

In two teams, students will represent the Coverlys of the past and present. These teams will debate the importance of their era in contributing to progress, using examples from the text to support their ideas.

3. Apples and Turtles

Considering the items that...
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