The Other Boleyn Girl 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. Watch the Movie - The Other Boleyn Girl

After the students are done reading the novel, have the students watch the movie and then discuss the changes that were made in the movie version.

2. Mary or Anne?

Have students debate the "cases" of both Mary and Anne in the story as related to how they lived their lives. Is there a clear victor?

3. Sing

Have the students learn the song - I'm Henry the VIII I Am, Henry the...
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