The Dispossessed | 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. Devise a Philosophy

Devise your philosophy or ideas on how the world should be run. Present your ideas to the class and at the end everyone should vote on whose philosophy is the best.

2. Violent Crime

In Anarres, they send their violent criminals to therapy. Write a short treatise on how you would deal with violent crime. Be prepared to share your ideas.

3. Rationing

In the novel, there is a drought and the government has to ration supplies. In the...
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