Surfacing 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. Canadian Spaces

Using clues from any chapter or chapters, students should attempt to map out the location of the story and the property the narrator describes.

2. Rebirth

Considering the narrator's "rebirth experience" in the lake, create a visual image of the character before and after her plunge. What did she look like before? How might she have changed after her revelation?

3. Key Quotes

Choosing any character from the text, students will create a "profile" using only dialogue that...
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