Peace Child 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. Maps of Sawi homeland

Make a map of the Sawi homeland with colored pencils, watercolors or so on. Base it on map #3 in the author's introduction which show the placement of the villages in 1962.

2. Painting of Yae

Make a painting or drawing of Yae as he is dressed to go to the Haenam village (as Richardson describes him in chapter 1).

3. Vocabulary Flash cards

Make a list of Sawi expressions and what they mean. On notecards...
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