House of Sand and Fog | 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. Trial

Have the class take parts as Kathy, Lester, Deputy Gleason, Doug, Carol, Kathy's mother, her brother Frank, and court officers, including a prosecuting attorney or team of attorneys, a defense attorney or attorneys, a bailiff to swear in witnesses, a judge, and a jury.
In this case, Kathy is being charged with inciting Lester to betray his family and his job, and ultimately to cause the death of the Behrani family. Using facts and quotations from the book, each side...
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