Perdido Street Station 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. Construct

Build your own construct using materials found around your own home. If you could have a robot like the constructs in the novel, what would you teach it to do? Write up a short report of your theories.

2. Map

The novel gives the reader many physical descriptions New Crobuzan and its surrounding areas, including the Weird Circus, the Construct Compound, and the Glasshouse. Using the descriptions in the text, create an in depth map for this landscape, including points where...
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