Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai 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. News Parallels

Have the students bring in an article from the newspaper that has a story that reminds them of something that happens in the book.

2. Samurai Training

Have the students spend an hour training in each portion of the samurai techniques and write about what this taught them about Musui.

3. Game Time

Have the students each create a game that enhances the player's knowledge of the book. Have a scheduled day to play all of these games together.