Katherine 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. Recreating Katherine on the Set of a Soap Opera

Take one very romantic scene from the story and act it out as if you were acting a scene from a popular American soap opera. Characters in the scene should be Katherine, the duke, Costanza of Castile, and some of the children.

2. Create a Romantic Menu for Two

You have just been hired by the duke to be his personal chef. He's about to whisk Katherine off to the Captal de...
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