Collected Stories | 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. Magic Realism

Identify a mundane activity in your life, and write a couple of paragraphs on it that inject some magic realistic details into it.

2. Fried Kidneys

The protagonist of "Dialogue with the Mirror" enthusiastically awaits the fried kidneys for breakfast. Research fried kidneys and determine whether or not you agree with him. What do they look like? What do they smell like?

3. Map

Choose one story and make a map of its events, such as "The Handsomest Drowned Man"...
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