Turn Pride and Prejudice into a math activity with a magic squares instructional activity. Kids read nine character traits and pair them to a list of the book's characters in order to complete the activity and find the magic number.

Concepts

pride and prejudice, jane austen, characterization, adjectives, magic squares

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• A great warm-up or homework assignment as kids read the novel
• Project the document onto the whiteboard and work out the problem as a class
• Have kids create their own magic squares based on different character traits, or on a different novel

Pros

• Combines math and language arts in a fun lesson for learners of all levels

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.7.3 RL.8.3 RL.9-10.3