Ragtime 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. Listen to Ragtime Music

In class play a CD of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

2. Watch the Movie

RAGTIME starring James Cagney is an award winning movie based on the novel that can be enjoyed on DVD.

3. Make Scrapbooks

Make scrapbooks of pictures and information about Harry Houdini, J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Ford, President Taft, and Scott Joplin.

4. Play End of the Line

Make a chart with all the stops on the train from the time Tateh and The Girl...
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Ragtime | Activities :&: Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

What coverage do the characters of Houdini, Ford and Morgan have in the novel and the film of Ragtime?

1. in what ways does Ragtime illustrate how race, class and gender determined or affected the lives of the three main female characters: mother, evelyn nesbit, and sarah?

in what ways does doctorow's novel ragtime illustrate the social and economic status of african americans, both men and women, in the united states in the earily 1900s?