Death in Venice | 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. Coloring Book

Make a coloring book of a few scenes of "Death In Venice." Focus on scenes when the narrator makes a specific note of color. Color in those objects with the appropriate colors.

2. Journal

Write a short journal, as a caricature of Aschenbach. Show the transition of Aschenbach's mindset. Take his mindset to the extreme.

3. Parody Skit or Monologue

Invent, write, and perform either a parody scene or monologue from "Death In Venice" making the characters humorous and exaggerated.