Hollywood Babylon 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. Extravagant Scene

DW Griffith's Babylon consisted of extravagant scenes that were quite shocking. Create a diorama of a scene you would include in a movie. Present your scene to the class and explain what you think it would involve if you were actually shooting this on film.

2. Golden Age Film

Watch a film from Hollywood's Golden Age. Create a chart in which you compare and contrast the Golden Age film to a typical modern film.

3. Documentary

Create a fake documentary...
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