The Turn of the Screw 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. Ghosts Alive

Write and enact a scene envisioning a conversation between Miss Jessel and Peter Quint while they were alive.

2. Dear Mr. Employer

Write a letter from the governess to her employer as though Miles had never stolen it.

3. Improvisation

In pairs, improvise a conversation between Miss Jessel and the governess.

4. Miming "The Turn of the Screw"

In groups of four, choose a scene and silently act it out. Your classmates will guess which scene you have chosen.