The Rifle | 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. Drawing

Draw the rifle. Make sure the drawing conforms to the description in the novel. Be able to identify the following parts of the rifle: muzzle, barrel, breech, pan, frizzen, hammer, flint, trigger, butt-stock, butt-plate, and ramrod.

2. Drawing

Select one of the following characters and draw them: Cornish McManus, John Byam, or Tim Harrow.

3. Writing

Write an obituary for Richard Allen Mesinger -- assume it will be published in your local newspaper's obituaries section.

4. Writing

Write an...
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