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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. Role Playing

Have students choose their favorite scene from the book and pick the four most popular. Then split the class into groups of 2-4 people and have them recreate the scene.

2. Watch a Movie Clip

Watch a short clip of the film GoodFellas and compare it to the scene that it is based on from the book.

3. Acting Scenes in a Different Time Period

Have the class split up into groups of four and assign each of them a...
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