Scoop 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. Fake Paper

Come up with your own newspaper, including its title, its main method of presentation (is it a tabloid, a serious intellectual journal, or something in between?), and a few stories that it would cover in its first issue.

2. Stitch Story

Devise a fake story in which Mrs. Stitch, by her bizarre but charming antics, catches the public attention, like the incident with her car and the stairwell.

3. Made-up War

Imagine your own made-up country experiencing a civil war...
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