Johnny Tremain | 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. Newspaper

Create your own version of the front page of the Boston Observer.

2. Short story

Write a short story from the point of view of one of the small children in a colonist's house.

3. Hats

Out of newspaper, create a tricorn hat.

4. Picture

Draw a picture of the Minute Men as they marched to Lexington.

5. Play

Act out a short play of an interaction between a British private and a Minute Man.

6. Parade

Make instruments that might...
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