Patty Jane's House of Curl 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. Storyboard/Comic book

Choose a scene from the novel and present it visually as a film storyboard or comic book.

2. Performance

Choose an interesting section from the novel and perform it as a dramatic scene or comedic skit.

3. Character Trading Cards

Assign each student in the class a character (or two) with a significant role in the novel. In the format of a baseball trading card, each student should create an artistic depiction of the character to go on the front...
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