Allusion Introduction Presentation and Escape Room Reading Challenge Activity
Allusion Introduction Presentation and Escape Room Reading Challenge Activity: This allusion reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of literary allusion! The detailed presentation introduces different types of allusion like historical, mythological, literary, religious, and pop-culture with clear examples. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must uncover a neighbor's involvement in alien research. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack an allusion-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to gain access to an underground bunker hiding alien secrets!
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Included in This Allusion Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Allusion Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the allusion lesson and activity with instructional slides on the different types of allusion: historical, mythological, literary, religious, and pop-culture. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape The Alien Base at Area 51 Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Upon discovering a keycard dropped by their mysterious neighbor, a curious individual decides to infiltrate Area 51, uncovering their neighbor's involvement in extraterrestrial research and embarking on a quest to solve a cryptic challenge hidden within a blank book.
➡️ Allusion Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style allusion challenge, students must read passages and find examples of allusion to reveal a hidden password to escape Area 51!
How This Allusion Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the allusion lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the following types of allusion: historical, mythological, literary, religious, and pop-culture. It will also introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
- Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the allusion activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different types of allusion and read the story, students are ready to try the reading challenge!
- When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
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