The Spanish Tragedy | 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. Act Out the Play

In "The Spanish Tragedy," Hieronimo directs a play within a play. As a class, cast actors for the play and present the play to a larger group, perhaps all English classes in a particular grade level.

2. Write Your Own Play

Hieronimo writes his own play to exact his revenge. Choose another character in the book and write a short play in which that character is able to control what happens to each of the characters.

3. Visual...
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