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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. Dating.

Assign one person in the class as Ducane and ask the other students to make up a female character that they think Ducane would consider for a serious relationship. Each student should take it turns to have a two-minute conversation with him. At the end, Ducane needs to decide whom he wants to date.

2. Blankety Blank.

Give one student an incomplete statement that relates to the book, but is not something that necessary happens in the story. For example, Pierce...
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