An American Tragedy | 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. Preach

Clyde's family are evangelical preachers. Write a sermon of something you genuinely believe strongly in and read it out in class.

2. Truth and Lie

Clyde lies about what is father does for a living so he fits in better with his rich friends. In groups of five have three people think of a truth and one person thinking of a lie. The aim of the remaining person is to guess who the liar is.

3. An Adventure

In the opening...
(read more)