Mother Courage and Her Children | 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. Costumes

"Mother Courage" takes place in the 17th century. Do some research and design an outfit that you feel a character in the play might wear.

2. Set Design

Do a few sketches of how you would design the set for "Mother Courage".

3. Context

There is a context given at the beginning of each scene. Write a description and prepare an example of how that information would be presented to the audience during a performance.

4. Panorama

Choose a scene from...
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