Journey to Topaz 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. Soundtrack

Choose what songs you would put on a soundtrack that could accompany the story. At what point would you play the songs?

2. Haiku

Write a Haiku, which you think summarizes the book.

3. Guess the Character

Choose one of the characters from the book and think about how he or she would look, walk and act in general. Find some clothes from home and bring them into class. The task is then to walk around the class dressed up and...
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