The Dark Wind 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. This is What I Saw

Imagine you are Jim Chee. You and Captain Largo are preparing your statement for T.L. Johnson. Prepare your statement for the DEA agent. Then, for each event in the statement, write what happened according to what Johnson believes. How do the two accounts of the same event differ? Where are you most likely to have trouble when cross-examined?

2. And That's What Happened . . .

Imagine you are the newspaper reporter assigned to write the story...
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