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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. Get Thee to a Nunnery!

Play a video scene of the famous scene from "Hamlet" in which Ophelia is sent to a nunnery; use this to explain the name of Archie's first wife and her fate.

2. Family Tree, Part I

Create a rendition of the Chalfen family tree as it would have looked in Marcus' study.

3. Family Tree, Part II

Create your own family tree.

4. Creative Casting

Working as a class, small groups, or individually, create a "dream cast"...
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