The House of Morgan | 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

Put together a family tree of the Morgans through the end of the 1980s.

2. Industries

At the time of the Pujo hearings, Morgans were involved in many of the industries in the US. List all these industries and indicate on which of the boards there were Morgans or Morgan partners.

3. Morgan Companies

Put together a "family tree" or a diagram of the different Morgan companies beginning with George Peabody and Company, continuing up to the end of the...
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