One Hundred Years of Solitude | 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. Create Your Own Story without a Timeline

While most people can tell you what they did in the past few days by retelling the events one after another, challenge students to think about their lives in terms of events, not dates or times. Have each student write a paragraph about the past twenty-four hours, but they're not allowed to put the events in order. Have the student submit a timeline too for comparison.

2. Redo the Cover Art

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