Brown Girl, Brownstones | 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. Research Life in Barbados

1. Using the Internet, books, and other sources, ask students to find out what life is like in Barbados. What kind of place is it? Is it a colony? Was there slavery in Barbados at any time in history? What is the government like today? What is the climate like?

2. Ask students to find out how and when people started immigrating from Barbados to New York. Ask them to check the Ellis Island website, and...
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