The Sword of Shannara 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. Mythical Creatures

This book described a land filled with magic, and therefore, magical creatures. Have the students split into groups, and have each group create a new creature that would reside in this world.

2. Unique Setting

This book had a very unique setting as it was supposed to be held in a post-apocolyptic world. Have the students find all of the different clues showing that this book took place AFTER our time- long after a Nuclear War.

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