The Children of Men 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. Omega Theater

Get into small groups of four or five, and create a play about being Omegas, the last generation to be born.

2. Reconstruction

You and your classmates have been elected to Theo's (as the new Warden of England) Council, and the pressing issues are repopulating the world and rebuilding society. What are the technicalities needed to be able to do so? Elect teams and leaders to decide what the problems are, and what must be done...
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