Democracy | 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. Architect of Vietnam

The Vietnam conflict is an open wound in the national psyche, and Democracy chronicles the thinking that went into the US's abandonment of the war. As a class, watch part of FOG OF WAR, Errol Morris' documentary about Robert McNamara in which he explains the mistakes he made in pursuing the war.

2. Lovett's Diary

Joan Didion pointedly avoids stating exactly what Jack Lovett is involved in, but she implies quite a bit. Choose one such implication,...
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