The Painted Veil 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. Drawing

Maugham devotes many chapters in the book to describing the physical and personality traits of both major and minor characters. For example he details Mr. Garstin in Chapter 6, Kitty in Chapter 8, Mother Superior in Chapter 41, and other characters in many other chapters. Students should select one of these descriptions and draw a portrait of that character based on Maugham's description.

2. Movie

The Painted Veil has been adapted into several commercial films. At the conclusion...
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