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Brief Description
In a spin-off from television's "Hollywood Squares," teams of students select "stars" from among their peers and agree or disagree with their responses to review questions in order to achieve three X's or O's in a row.
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Students
Keywords
game, review, Hollywood Squares
Lesson Plan
In the pattern of the television program "Hollywood Squares," this review game calls on students to play the roles of "stars" and team members as they try to obtain three X's or O's in a row. In preparation for the game, select several review questions with answers.
Fold in half a sheet of heavy construction paper or oak tag. Open up the sheet and draw in big X in one section of the folded page and a big O in the other. Do the same thing with eight (8) additional sheets of paper. Place those sheets on nine desks arranged in a square of three rows of three desks each. The blank side of each paper shape should be displayed in front.
As questions are answered, the persons ("stars") seated at the desks will fold the sheets inside-out to reveal the X or the O.
Draw names or select nine students to serve as the game's "stars" who sit in the nine desks. Divide the other students evenly into two teams, and choose one team to go first as "X" and the other as "O."
In the next game, the "O" team becomes the "X" team and goes first. You may also rotate new students into the role of "stars."
For more fun, have students choose popular (and appropriate) personalities to imitate when they are "stars" for a game. They could write the names of those personalities on their paper displays, so that the teams can address them "accurately"!
Assessment
The team that is first to achieve three X's or O's in a row is the winner of each round.
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Cara Bafile
National Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
GRADES K - 12
NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
NL-ENG.K-12.5 Communication Strategies
NL-ENG.K-12.6 Applying Knowledge
NL-ENG.K-12.11 Participating in Society
NL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills
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