A Lesson before Dying 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. Another Narrator Takes Over

In the beginning of the novel, the narrator is unnamed. If the narrator hadn't turned out to be Grant, how do you think the account of the the bar incident would have been told? Have students rewrite the story from another character's viewpoint.

2. The Rainbow Club

Have students create a picture or find a picture they feel represents what the Rainbow Club looks like in 'real life.'

3. A Lesson Plan for Grant

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