The Gin Game 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. Sketch the background of the scene

Sketch the background of the scene as described in the play and as you see it in your mind's eye.

2. Flashback

Using what we know about one of the characters in the play, write a story about the character's past. For example, fill in the tale of Fonsia kicking her husband out of her house, or of Weller being divested from his business.

3. Produce the play

Using class members, produce play for the...
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