Garden of Shadows 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. A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words, Part One.

Create a conceptual drawing of Alicia.

2. Extra, Extra!

Write a tabloid style article in which Malcolm's infidelity is exposed.

3. If I Had a Billion Dollars...

If you had a billion dollars, how would you spend it? What would you do? Where would you go? What would you buy and why?

4. A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words, Part Two

Create a picture or concept of what any of the...
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