Four Summers | 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. Setting

Create a landscape of the Lakeside Tavern. Use quotes from the text to create an accurate depiction.

2. Family Portrait

Create a family portrait either through collage, drawing, or painting that depicts Sissie and her family at any point in the story.

3. Storyboard

Create a storyboard for one of the summers that Sissie describes. Note the important events that occur as well as Sissie's most prolific or descriptive thoughts.

4. Act Out a Scene

In a group of two to...
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