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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. Poetic license

Be your very own "Irish Genius." Prepare a one-page poem that follows the same pattern (or lack of patter) as "Beyond Ichor" by Sean O'Shawn. You will trade poems with another student in class and act as the critic and write your very own translation of their poem.

2. Dance, dance

Write your own lesser ballet. It can be one-to-three scenes, use Woody Allen's lesser ballets as examples. Make sure that love is a key theme in your ballet and...
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