The Balcony | 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. The Grand Balcony

The setting of this play is a whorehouse called the Grand Balcony. Research the history of whorehouses and brothels. How did they begin? What purpose do they serve? What is life like in a brothel? In what form do they exist today?

2. What is Satire

Both the Chief and play move into the realm of satire in Scene 5, Part 3. What is satire? What is the history of satire? ...
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