The Big Sleep | 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. Design a Frontcover

Design a front cover for the book. Be sure to write a blurb for the inside flap.

2. Tourist Brochure

Write a tourist brochure on New Orleans. Think about what kind of people you would like to attract to the city.

3. Obituary

Choose a character from the novel and write their obituary.

4. 500 Words

Write the novel into a 500-word story.

5. Soundtrack

Choose what songs you would on a soundtrack that could accompany the story. At...
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