Fences | 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. Make Predictions

Write one-sentence descriptions of what you think the lives of each of the following characters will be like ten years after the play ends: Rose, Raynell, Lyons, Gabriel, and Cory.

2. Create a miniature set

Create a miniature set of "Fences" as it would look at the beginning of the play. Include such items as the house with its porch, the dirt yard, the tree with the hanging ball, the sawhorse and wood for the fence, and the two oil...
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