Doctor Faustus 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. Changing Genres

In groups of two or three, choose a scene from the play to rewrite slightly to fit into a different genre. Enact your scene for the class.

2. Death Becomes Him

Assuming Faustus did not leave all of his possessions to Wagner, write Faustus's last will, citing your reasons for why he leave his possessions to whomever.

3. Debate of the Angels

In pairs, as the Good and Bad Angels, argue for a different character's soul (i.e. the Old Man,...
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