Rifles for Watie | 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. Captain Clardy's Murder

Captain Clardy may not have been an upstanding citizen but that is no reason for murder. Write a short story about the Captain's murder. Using any means necessary, including modern day forensic knowledge, find out who the killer is and what they used to commit the murder. Colonel Mustard in the Confederate mess hall with a dagger?

2. Jeff's Letter to Lucy

Jeff writes a letter back to Lucy, just as she asked him to do. Produce the letter...
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