One Day When I was Lost: A Scenario 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. Watch some moment of the movie MALCOLM X.

Watch some selected moments of this critically acclaimed movie to compare it to Baldwin's scenario.

2. What's my Cause?

Play a game like What's My Line? to have the class guess political or charitable causes other students hold dear.

3. Black Music of the 1960s.

Listen to some of the most popular soul music of the 1960s to get a feel for the era.

4. One Time, When I Changed My Mind

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