Bird by Bird | 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. Our Acre

In Part 1, Section 7, Character, Anne says that our characters are given an emotional acre. Using images and words from magazines, create a pictorial representation of a character's emotional acre as it is defined in this section.

2. Polaroids

In Part 1, Section 6, Polaroids, Anne compares writing a first draft to watching a Polaroid develop. Take a picture with a Polaroid camera and document the development of the picture. What images emerged first to last?...
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