Murder on the Orient Express 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. Form a murder mystery club

Sign up interested classroom participants and form a murder mystery club in which the students invent and solve their own mysteries.

2. Create a locked room mystery

The concept of the locked room murder is common throughout literature and often proves to be the most complex to solve. Create your own locked room mystery and explain how the murder occurred.

3. Art Project

Create your own personalized passport stamp.

4. Creative writing

Start a class a round...
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