The Perilous Gard 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. Fashion Research

Research popular fashion of the time period in which Perilous Gard is set. Design outfits that would have been worn by a male and female character in the novel.

2. Work of Art

Create an artistic work in any medium depicting an interesting scene, setting or character in Perilous Gard.

3. Limericks

Limericks are humorous five-line rhyming poems. Compose a collection of three to five limericks based on the characters or situations in Perilous Gard.

4. Short Story

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