Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | 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. See Shakespeare's Hamlet

If there is no staged production of Hamlet at the time, get a DVD of Hamlet and view it in class.

2. Calligraphy

Letters in Elizabethan England were all hand written in beautiful calligraphy. Find samples of this and display them in class. Even better would be having a talented student make some samples.

3. Coins and Probability

Spin a coin 50 times and record how many times it comes up heads and how many times it...
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