Riders of the Purple Sage | 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. Quiz Bowl

Break the class into two teams and place one team on one side of the room and the second on the other side. The teacher asks questions about the novel. The first team to answer gets a point.

2. Cliff Dwellers

Describe the life of the cliff dwellers from the objects found by Venters and Bess.

3. Visual of Deception Pass and the waterfall

Draw a map of what you think Deception Pass and the waterfall look like. It can...
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