The Poisonwood Bible 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. Language Creation

Adah develops her own special language by thinking of everything backward and forward. Split the students into several groups and have them create their own language. Once they have decided on what their language is, have other groups see if they can decode the language and translate what the group wrote.

2. Character Letters

Choose one character from the book. Write a letter from the perspective of the character to someone else (for example, a friend in Georgia) about one...
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