The Birthday Party 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. Choose another play

Choose another play from the author and read in class.

2. Research other genres

Research the author's different genres used in his work and write 1-2 paragraphs summarizing your findings.

3. Negative receptions

Research the negative reception the play first received when shown in London and write a short paragraph summarizing your findings.

4. Jeopardy

Play a game of Jeopardy using the multiple-choice questions and one of the essay or short answer essays for final Jeopardy.

5. Research Lyric...
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