Gorgias 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. Board Game

Create a board game of "Gorgias."

2. Comic Book

Draw a comic book version of "Gorgias."

3. Cover Art

Design new cover art for "Gorgias."

4. Your Voice

Choose a chapter of Gorgias and insert your voice into it, proposing an alternate argument.

5. Nwspaper Article

Write a newspaper article describing a new country that has been founded on the principals of Socrates' ideal government.

6. Poem

Write a poem describing Socrates' idea of death and the transition to the...
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