The Monkey Wrench Gang 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. Soundtrack.

Choose what songs you would put on a soundtrack that could accompany the story. At what point would you play the songs?

2. Defense.

Study a crime from newspaper reports and write out a defense for the accused.

3. Words.

Ask the students to list ten words from the book they don't know and use those words in a short story.

4. Board Game.

Design a board game based around THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG.

5. Haiku.

Write a haiku which you...
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