Shame 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. Picture of the Beast

Draw a picture of the Beast as it manifests itself in Sufiya Zinobia. Be creative.

2. Rubaiyat

Read various selected quatrains from the Edward FitzGerald translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. Discuss whether or not any of them are in any way relevant to the story of Shame.

3. Picture of Omar

Draw a picture of Omar Khayyam Shakil as he is described in his middle years, before engaging in his affair with Shahbanou.

4. Blushing

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