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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. A Sociologist's View of Ryanga

Imagine that you are a sociologist sent to study and report back on the culture of the Ryangan leper colony. Describe the culture to people who have never seen or heard of it. Use each of Uncle Jack's descriptions as fact on which to base your description.

2. A Sociologist's View of Ireland in the 1930s.

Imagine that you are a sociologist sent to study and report back on the culture of an impoverished Irish Catholic family...
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