Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel 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. Action!

Provide the class with a box of random props and have them act out scenes from the book. Award extra credit points to the team with the most points at the end.

2. Dance Themes

Have the students all come up with a good theme for the golf club dance, and create some sketches as to how it would be carried out.

3. Jeopardy

Create a Jeopardy-like game with clues and questions from the review for a test. Award...
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