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.
Imagine that you are one of Lauren's neighbors from the Robledo neighborhood. Write a diary from their perspective. How do their impressions of the happenings in the neighborhood differ from Lauren's?
2. COMPANY TOWN
Research company towns like Olivar. Draw a map that shows what you think Olivar is planned like, based on other company towns.
3. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLAN
Create an emergency preparedness plan for yourself like Lauren does as she prepared to leave the neighborhood. What items do you put in your sack to...
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