The Eagle's Gift 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. Becoming Like Carlos

Have students create a short description of the things they'd have to do in order to have the adventure that Carlos has.

2. A Picture of Don Juan

Have students create a picture of Don Juan and what they think he might look like in real life.

3. The Apprentice Trading Cards

Have each of the students create a set of trading cards, just like there are for baseball players, but for the apprentices in the story.

4. The...
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