Nightmares & Dreamscapes 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. Obituary

Write an obituary in the voice of Martha for her husband that would be placed in the newspaper for the public.

2. Movie Trailer

Pretend that a story from this collection was being made into a movie and create a trailer to give the audience a sample.

3. Play

Choose a story from Nightmares and Dreamscapes to create a play from. It might be easier to choose a story that takes place in a short amount of time, but it is...
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