The Women of Brewster Place | 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. Gloria Naylor's Laptop

Imagine that you could have a conversation with Naylor's laptop. What do you think it would say? What questions would you ask?

2. Write a Poem or Song

Write a poem or song depicting some aspect of Brewster Place or the characters who live there.

3. Character Charades

Write the names of the characters from the novel on slips of paper and place them in a hat. Play a game of charades using the characters'...
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