Big Sur | 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. Documentary with Biographical Interviews

"One Fast Move or I'm Gone - Kerouac's Big Sur" was released in 2009. It chronicles the time in Kerouac's life which led to his novel Big Sur. Allow students to watch this documentary, which features several of the remaining "characters" who are still alive and subjects of the novel.

2. Feature Film

The film "Pull My Daisy" was produced in 1959, written by Jack Kerouac. This film features several of the writers of the Beat Generation in...
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