From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts 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. Round Up the Usual Suspects

Research the actual Jack the Ripper. Create a dossier of the men who are mainly suspected to be Jack the Ripper. Is William Gull amongst them? What about Walter Sickert or Montague John Druitt? What explanations are given for their possible motives? Who are some of the other suspects? Who is the main suspect? Who do you believe is Jack the Ripper?

2. Trust the Media

Find some of the original...
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