The Stories of John Cheever | 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. Family tree

Find a partner to work on an art project. Make a Pomeroy family tree, describe each member, what they do for a living, and how the rest of the family feels about him or her.

2. Laud's Head

Divide into groups of three or four. Online or in the library, look up on a map Laud's Head, the setting for "Goodbye My Brother" exist? Does Laud's Head exist? What kind of place is it. Pretend you are preparing a short...
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