Daughters and Rebels: An Autobiography 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. Epilogue

Have students write an additional chapter that continues from the point the book ends and details what happened in Jessica's life up until her death in 1996.

2. Performance

Choose an interesting event from the novel and adapt it into a script and perform it as a dramatic scene or comedic skit.

3. Book Cover

Design a new book cover that depicts the novel in an interesting and creative way.

4. Short Story

Research life in 1930s England and compose a...
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