Beat to Quarters | 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. Short Story

Write a short story in which you are the hero or heroine. In the story you take a trip on a sailing ship to any exotic destination you choose and for any purpose you choose. Describe the events and characters you meet or interact with on the trip. The action of the plot may take place on the ship at sea or at your exotic destination.

2. Limerick

Invent a limerick about one of the colorful characters...
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