Going After Cacciato 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. Two True One False

The narrative of Going After Cacciato is a clever interweaving of fact and invention. Have the class play a game in which each student tells the class three facts about herself, two true and one false. The class should try to guess which is the falsehood.

2. Vietnam on Film

Vietnam is the first war in American history to be parsed, revised and debated on film. As a class, watch clips from films that have...
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