Black Wind | 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. Planes, trains, and automobiles

List as many means of transportation as you can find in Black Wind. Beside each vehicle, write a one-sentence description of it and how it is used in the book.

2. What's an Odyssey?

Ships are traditionally given names. Why do you think the Odyssey received the name it did? Explain.

3. Today was uneventful

Imagine you are a crewman on board the Odyssey before Kang's men take it over. Write a two paragraph journal entry describing a...
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