Time's Arrow | 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. Writing backwards

Ask the students to write a short story as if they are trapped, like the narrator, in the head of someone whose life they are living backwards. This figure can be anyone: a literary character, historical character, the student, anyone.

2. Ontological puzzle

Ask students to discuss how they know that they are living their own lives forward instead of living someone else's life backwards.

3. Debate

Ask students to debate the results of the ontological puzzle--ask some students...
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