The Ersatz Elevator | 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. Mapping the City

Using the descriptions in "The Ersatz Elevator," create a map of the city and particularly Dark Avenue on butcher paper. Use a red pen to show the In-Boutique, the Squalors' apartment, and the Baudelaire's burned home site. Be sure to put important parts onto the map such as the location of the tunnel that leads between the apartment at Dark Avenue and the Baudelaire's home.

2. Baudelaires in a Box

Using one of the scenes from "The Ersatz Elevator,"...
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