Skeleton Crew | 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. Character Illustration

Choose one character and draw or paint a picture of that character. Share with the class why you chose that character and what made you decide to illustrate that character in the manner that you did.

2. Alternate Ending

Write an alternate ending to "The Mist." Did you choose to make the ending more ominous or a happier ending? Why?

3. It's Just An Illusion

In "Here There Be Tygers," Charles obviously has a skewed view of...
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