Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke 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. Rewrite

Rewrite, in the form of one chapter, Duke's childhood years with her father in a way that she would have liked things to have been.

2. Choose the Actor

If Duke's autobiography were to be made into a movie, choose the actors who would play the major roles. Explain why those actors would work best.

3. Descriptive Adjectives

Think of and write out as many descriptive adjectives as possible to describe: Patty, Patty's mother and father, Patty's siblings.

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