Cloud Atlas 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. Crossword

Develop a crossword where the words are things, events, locations or people in the stories.

2. Create a map

For each of the stories, create a map of places that are mentioned, and places where important events take place. Merge all the maps for the various stories into one map.

3. Blog

Pretend that you are Luisa Rey. Write a series of blog entries that detail the events happening to you and the information you are gathering.

4. A tone poem