The House in Paris | 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. Creative Writing

Choose a favorite scene from the novel and rewrite it set in another time and/or place, or written in a different literary style.

2. Timeline

Create a timeline mapping out important events in the story. Illustrate (with a photo, clipping, drawing, etc.) each point you add to the timeline.

3. Guess Who Game

Write the names of characters onto a small square card and give one to each student (try not to duplicate the character names if possible). Have the...
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