The Rez Sisters | 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. Map

Draw a map of the Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve including the major places mentioned in the play such as the houses of the characters.

2. Sketch

Sketch one of the characters as he or she is represented in your imagination. Try to include elements discussed in the play.

3. Play Time

Together with a group of other students, act out one of the scenes of the play.

4. Disguise

Draw Nanabush as he would have appeared, disguised either as the...
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