Jailbird | 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. Board Game

Create a board game of "Jailbird."

2. Comic Book

Make a comic book about of "Jailbird."

3. Cover Art

Draw what you believe the cover art should be for "Jailbird."

4. Epilogue

Write your own Epilogue to follow Mary Kathleen's death.

5. Testimony

Write a script for Starbuck's testimony and perform it.

6. Sermon

Write your own sermon that applies to the themes of the story and the characters.

7. Timeline

Draw a timeline of Starbuck's life paralleled with history.