I like to make my classroom as literary immersive as possible. When we read Brave New World, the seating chart changes by height. My tall row are my Alphas, and so on down to Epsilons (though I make sure my Epsilon row can handle the joke). I always praise whatever answer my Alphas give (even I have to do crazy maneuvering to bring them to the actual correct answer and I cut the corners off the papers handed out the Epsilons (so they don't hurt themselves, of course)). When we read 1984, we paper the school with Big Brother Is Watching You posters and we have a secret police in the class to report on other students who aren't loving Big Brother as often as they want to (punishment, wipe down the desks or turn in other classmates).
All the while this is going on, I have a slideshow of propaganda constantly flashing on the TV screen. I'll share them with you. Some of the slides I created and some I just found online (more online for 1984 than Brave New World). In order to play it automatically, I put the tab in its own window, hit SLIDESHOW and then in the bottom left corner, select AUTOPLAY then LOOP then 30 SECS then PLAY. I cast it to the TV and go about my day.
Here is the Brave New World one: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c1Xd0Z0VF9w6BVA71WJsnyRBiO5aqnwQEbiSQ4_mIr0/edit#slide=id.g7f9262ee2f_0_26269
Here is the 1984 one: https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2196350756928860595/1634928911302079891
I haven't taught 1984 in a few years, so it could probably stand to be updated a bit.
What about you? Do you have any cool immersive activities? Leave a comment!
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