Little Birds: Erotica | 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. The Maja

Find copies of both "La Maja Desnuda" and "La Maja Vestida" and bring them in for the class to see. How does this affect their feelings and emotions to the once-repressed Maria of "the Maja?" How does this explain Novalis's obsession with this painting?

2. That Decade of Dance

Many of these stories were written in the 1930s and 1940s. Pick a location from this book and research the dance styles of this period to teach the class. Give a...
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