1. Business Card Trick In your team, figure out how to fit your entire body through this business card! You may use scissors. GOOD LUCK! WORK TOGETHER!

2. Business Card Trick: Fold the business card in half, and cut it through both sides of the card, as shown in the diagram, in the following sequence: Cut 10-12 slits, from the folded edge up to about 3mm of the open edge, each slit about 5mm apart. Cut a slit between each of the above slits, from the open edge up to about 3mm of the folded edge. Open the card and cut the folded edge, but not the ends marked with blue circles. Now gently open the card into a ring to put your entire body through.

3. Arrange the pencils/sticks as in the picture Now make four equilateral triangles (same length sides) using the pencils/sticks. Each triangle must be the same size, and every side of each triangle must be the same No breaking pencils

5. Now make the same shovel, no longer containing the coin, by moving only two sticks.

6. Answer: slide the middle stick a half-stick-length right (or left), then move the top now unconnected stick to the opposite downward corner to make the new shovel. The puzzle is difficult because most people naturally imagine moving sticks to entirely different positions, and rarely consider shifting a stick only half of its length.

7. A farmer has a dog, a sack of grain and a live chicken, all of which he must take across a river. The boat will only carry him and one of the things at a time or it will sink. Without the farmer, the dog would kill the chicken, and the chicken would eat the grain. How does he get all three across safely to continue his journey?

8. Farmer's Puzzle: He takes the chicken and comes back. Then he takes the grain and comes back with the chicken. Then he takes the dog and comes back. Then he takes the chicken.

9. As a group, use only the letter provided for each of the following. Example…letter “S” 1. Title of a novel 2. Protagonist 3. Common literary theme 4. Author 5. Literary fictional town or city 6. Antagonist 7. Figurative language 8. Literary device

10. 1. Title of a novel 2. Protagonist 3. Common literary theme 4. Author 5. Literary fictional town or city 6. Antagonist 7. Figurative language 8. Literary device

11. 1. A Shakespearean tragedy 2. A Shakespearean comedy 3. Shakespearean female main character 4. Shakespearean male main character 5. Shakespearean theme 6. Fact about Shakespeare 7. Subject of a sonnet 8. Characteristic of a sonnet

12. Think/Analyze/Explain As a group, discuss why you think it is important to work together. All members of the group should be ready to share.

13. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Henry Ford

14. 1. Why is being able to effectively function collaboratively in a group a necessary skill? 2. How do effective groups balance individual responsibility with group interdependence? 3. What criteria could be used to measure the effectiveness of a group? 4. How do specific questions promote group effectiveness?

15. How did you contribute to the “team”? What were your strengths? How did you help the group? What are your weaknesses? What could you do to improve your efforts in the next group activity?