Class Activity #1: In order to understand how severe a punishment exile would in a time and culture where travel and communication is so limited, students can engage in the following activity.
2. Consider the motivation of the people who punish by exile
3. Characterize the effect of the exile
In order to connect with their own lives, students can also write about a time when they were cut off from others such as losing their phones; essentially, becoming a digital exile.
Students might also be able to relate to other stories such as Oedipus Rex, Romeo and Juliet, along with other works where characters are exiled.
Class Activity #2: For students to fully comprehend the full effects of one who is to be exiled. Students should think of it from the perspective of the exiled person and that person's family. We can use Narichika and Naritsune's family as an example, to show how urgent it is for the exiled person's family to leave due to Taira no Kiyomori possibly pursuing them as well. Students can engage in the following activities.
1. Make a list of things that the students wish to bring with them if they were exiled onto an island like Kikaigashima, and compare with others.
2. Split the classroom in groups depending on the class size, then have the students make a plan for how they can survive on an island like the ones mentioned in the book.
3. Discuss where all of the students can go to flee if they were associated with an exiled person.
Class Activity #3: In order for the students to fully grasp the events in this book and how they relate to other events, a game of Kahoot could be ideal for . To be specific, a game on key points, character names, fate of characters, vocabulary, etc.
Ex. "What was the fate of Saiko and his sons?"
A) They were all exiled
B) They were all killed
C) They were pardoned
D) They fled the country