American Gods | 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. What a God Looks Like

Assign each student in class a god from the play and have them search magazines to create an amalgamation of pictures that they believe reflects what this character would look like. Have each student present her picture in class and explain why she chose the pictures she did.

2. Modern Olympian

Assign each student a god from the Olympian pantheon. Each student should create a dossier for this god if it were a modern American...
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