Oedipus the King 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. Poster of Teiresias

Make a poster representing the blind prophet Teiresias. Fill the poster with as much information and as many representations of Teiresias as you can. Use text, pictures from the Internet or magazines, drawings, paper cut-outs, or any other decorations you can think of.

2. Shrine to a god

Make up your own Greek god, and make a shrine to that god. Your shrine can be a drawing, a collection of pictures from the Internet or magazines, or a 3-dimensional...
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