Eden Close: A Novel 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. Charades

Working in teams of two, act out a character's identity without using any words.

2. Quiz your classmate

Create a quiz about the characters in "Eden Close" and give the quiz to another student in the class to answer.

3. Author Biography

Do an internet search on the author of this novel, Anita Shreve. What is her background? What other books did she write? Where does she live? What other information can you discover about her? ...
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