This activity features a rigorous yet engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 poetry-based puzzles about Thanksgiving for middle and high school!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Thanksgiving-themed Poetry Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based poetry tasks so that with this fun lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Thanksgiving break until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Thanksgiving!

• Watch Your Tone: In the first task, students will read 6 excerpts from classic Thanksgiving-inspired poems and identify the tone of each poem. When cards are matched correctly, shaded letters will reveal the code.
• Like a Can of Corn: In the second task, students must fill in the blanks with the Thanksgiving-inspired idioms. Once cards are assembled correctly, designated letters within each card reveal the code.
• The Pumpkin: In the third task, students must correctly identify the figurative language devices used in the poem, The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier. Shaded boxes within the answers will reveal the third code.
• Ella's Thanksgiving: In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Thanksgiving by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The letters of the multiple choice questions about the poem will form the fourth code.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a Thanksgiving quote. Once the puzzle is assembled and students bring the quote to you, they may escape the room to Thanksgiving break.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Sheet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal during the month of November.

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