Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Finn Escape Room (Breakout EDU)
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The Duke and The King are up to their old tricks! Can you rally the band of Tom Sawyer's Gang to expose these two frauds before it's too late? Drive student engagement through the roof with this comprehensive Escape Room simulation in a race against the clock as students use knowledge of the plot, characters, setting, and events of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- the quintessential coming-of-age adventure of American literature!
This Escape Room is designed to test your students’ knowledge of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a high-energy end-of-unit collaborative activity, where student groups will race against the clock to save Huck and Jim from The Duke and The King's slimy money-making schemes.
DOWNLOAD CONTAINS:
There are five different puzzles in this game, all of which can only be unlocked by correctly solving a total of 46 themed clues testing the following concepts:
• Jackson’s Island Firewood Hunt - Close Reading (six clues)
• Secret Symbols of Tom Sawyer’s Gang - Plot (eight clues w/ cipher)
• St. Petersburg Map Puzzle - Setting (eight clues w/ cipher)
• Secret of Miss Watson's Will - Quote Identification (16 quotes w/ 2 ciphers).
• Iconic River Adventure TimelineWill - Chronology / Symbolism (8 clues w/ cipher)
Please note: this escape room scenario is designed to be compatible with the kit provided by Breakout EDU. Great people, FANTASTIC product, and I cannot say enough good things about how much I love their creativity, innovation, and student-centered classroom approach.
*(Note: Not ready for a full-class Escape Room? No problem. Teachers can use these same interactive puzzles as stand-alone activities to be completed in small groups across multiple days of the unit!)
+Step-by-step teacher walkthrough of the solutions to all game puzzles.
+ Fully customizable Google Slides download contains plug-and-play Escape Room scenario and review game that can be put in place TODAY if your classes have finished reading Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
If you already own a Breakout EDU kit, this scenario can be implemented immediately. Don't own a Breakout EDU kit? Don't worry! The download walks you through how to create your own escape room *for free* simply by printing the puzzles and replacing the keyed locks with puzzle-specific passwords (or Google Forms).
High energy, visually stunning, and fully immersive -- this is a class escape room done right. Driven by student collaboration, competition, and communication skills: it's unit-ending activity that your classes will NEVER forget.
Good luck with your escape room!
- John
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