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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. Time Capsule

Create a time capsule to be buried or stored somewhere in the school. Set up a later time to meet together years later--or collect addresses to mail pictures of the contents to at a certain later date.

2. Student Council

Hold a student council election like the one in the play that was won by George and Emily. Have the students later write about what they learned about Emily and George's character through this experience.

3. Creative Lies

George had...
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