All My Sons | Activities :&: Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Cast a Production

Choose a group of actors that you think would be good for a new production of All My Sons. In a short paragraph under each actor, explain what it is about that person that would make him/her right for the role.

2. A Modern Interpretation

Look at pictures and read the review for the new Broadway production of All My Sons (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/theater/reviews/17sons.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=all%20my%20sons&st=cse). This production made some bold design choices, with projections, a minimalist set and actors remaining...
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