You’ve Been Sentenced! is one of many new activity kits in the OISE Library Curriculum Resources Collection! This sentence-building game can make learning grammar and sentence construction fun and easy for students.
To play, each player receives 10 cards containing variations of funny words, famous names, and familiar places. The objective of the game is to create a grammatically correct sentence using as many cards as possible. If the sentence is not grammatically correct – or if it just doesn’t make sense! – it can be disputed by other players. The defending player and the objecting player get to argue their points for the rest of the players, who form a jury. In the classroom, a teacher can play the role of the judge to make the final verdict. The more ridiculous the sentence, the more fun players will have defending and explaining the sentence’s meaning and structure to other players.
A lesson plan can be found on the You’ve Been Sentenced! website, so that the game can be utilized as a classroom teaching tool. The activity kit also comes with rule variations so that the game can be altered to best suit the classroom context.
The You’ve Been Sentenced! activity kit is on display on the Ground Floor coffee table, adjacent to the Circulation Desk. If you can’t visit the library in person, you can view a larger image in the OISE Library K-12 Manipulatives Database, which we’ve designed to help OISE students discover the library’s hands-on resources.