Man's Search for Meaning | 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. Capos and ordinary prisoners

Based on Frankl's description in the first few pages of his book, create (draw, paint, or make a collage) an image of the "prominent" Capos and the "army of unknown and unrecorded" prisoners.

2. The Capos

Frankl makes the point that his narrative is not about the experience of the Capos in the concentration camps, but they figure prominently in the experience of ordinary prisoners, and are thus discussed in the early pages of his text. Based...
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