Being There | 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. Write a Diary

Create a diary that Chance may have kept highlighting his feelings at each different stage of his life. Or just choose a couple of major events in his life and have him write about that.

2. Book Review

Pretend you are a book reviewer for a major newspaper. Write a book review for "Being There" and read it aloud to the class.

3. Chapter Titles

The chapters in "Being There" are only numbered. Give each chapter...
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