The Sportswriter | 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. Crossword Puzzle

Students will create a crossword puzzle in any way they wish, however, they must use the following words: cemetery, catalogs, fishing, croquet, phone booth, suicide, August, police station, Divorce Men's Club, Detroit, Haddam, Florida, Vicki, Ralph, and Wade. Students will write clues to these words based on "The Sportswriter."

2. Webbing

Students will web everything they can think of and connect to "Sportswriter." What types of things are associated with the sportswriter? Who is associated with the sportswriter? Once students...
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