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. Vocabulary Game
Eliot uses a lot of difficult vocabulary words in many of his poems; create a game in which students are scored upon their ability to define and properly use some of these words, drawn from a word bank.
2. Biographical Reading
Read and examine a general biography on T.S. Eliot, discussing how the events of his life influenced and corroborate interpretations of his poems.
3. Historical Reading: WWI
Read a brief history of the devastation caused by World War I, particularly in Eastern Europe...
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