If you are looking for the perfect engaging yet rigorous activity for Valentine's Day, look no further than our escape room for John Collier's The Chaser!

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 Escape Room for The Chaser by John Collier. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task (and it is!), 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. 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?

In this escape room, students will try to escape from the hands of the mysterious apothecary by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles, discovering codes, and finding clues along the way.

• Nervous as a Kitten: In the first task, students must match literary devices within the story to their definitions.
• Criss-Cross: In the second task, students must solve a crossword puzzle with questions about characters, literary elements, quotes, and story details.
• Vocab Match Up: In the third task, students fill in the blanks with vocabulary words from the story.
• Close Read: In the fourth task, students must answer multiple choice questions about The Chaser.
• Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must decode an encrypted quote that relates to the story's theme using the codes they collected along the way.

Product Includes:

• Escape Room Basics
• Detailed Day-Of Instructions
• Escape Room Print Checklist
• Student Teams Chart
• Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials
• Student Answer Sheet
• Teacher Answer Keys
• Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
• Theme Reflection for homework assignment or in-class writing activity

Because this is a skills-based escape room, it is perfect for a review of the story before the test.

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Also, check out these great Valentine's Day resources by Language Arts Excellence:

⭐ Valentine's Day Collaborative Writing Activity

⭐ Valentine's Day "Love Talk" Lesson Plan

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Sonnet 130 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

⭐ Sonnet 18 Valentine's Day Lesson Plan

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