Where the Lilies Bloom | 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. Mary Call's Journal

Write a journal entry as if you are Mary Call Luther and have just found out your father has died. Write what you think the thoughts are going through Mary's head at that time.

2. Luther Family Tree

Create a family tree for the Luther family that includes all characters, dead or alive, that we know of in the book.

3. More about Sharecropping

Look up sharecropping on the internet and write a short description of what the Luther...
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