Fortunate Son | 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. Privileged Days

Lewis had access to a butler, a cook, yard workers, a military aide, and a driver until his father retired. Write two daily schedules for Lewis, one before and one after his father's retirement.

2. My Dad, the Hero

As a boy, Lewis sees his father as a hero. As a teen, he realizes his father is human. Draw a picture that the boy Lewis might have had on the refrigerator of his father, the war hero. ...
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