Screwtape’s Strategy Session — Free Sample Activity from Inkheart

Description

Your children will hear a thousand voices. Give them one of their own.

This free Screwtape Letters activity is designed for homeschool co-ops, discussion groups, and Christian high school students ages 14–18. Through role-play, discussion, writing, and critical thinking, students explore temptation, agency, character, and personal responsibility while engaging with the ideas found in C. S. Lewis’s classic work.

Most teenagers have never been asked to think carefully about how temptation actually works. They’ve been warned about dangers. They’ve been told right from wrong. But very few have sat down and examined the mechanics of drift — the quiet, gradual process by which good people end up somewhere they never intended to go.

C. S. Lewis did that work for us in The Screwtape Letters. In this simulation, your students become the tempters — and discover they already know exactly how it works.

What’s Included in This Free Homeschool Discussion and Writing Activity

•    Full simulation setup and facilitation guide

•    8 scenario cards (The Scroll Trap, The Tomorrow Plan, The Comparison Game, The Broken Friendship, and more)

•    Build Your Temptation Plan worksheet

•    Three rounds of structured activity: Build, Present, Resist

•    Bonus Round and Final Reveal with the key Screwtape quote

•    Writing activity: The Screwtape Letter

•    Debrief questions and Mentor Notes

How it works:

Teams build a three-step “drift strategy” — The Hook, The Lie, The Drift — then present it to Screwtape (the class). A Resistance Team has 60 seconds to defeat the plan. The room gets loud. Students start recognizing the tactics in their own lives. Then they write.

This activity takes 45–60 minutes. Students need no prior reading to engage, though it’s richer if they’ve read The Screwtape Letters. The writing activity can be done in class or assigned as homework.

This is a sample from Inkheart:

Inkheart is a year-long homeschool literature and writing curriculum for teens ages 14–18. Designed for homeschool co-ops and discussion-based learning communities, it combines classic literature, Socratic discussion, writing instruction, and principle-centered activities to help students find their voice and write with purpose.

This activity is adapted from Inkheart, a complete 24-lesson homeschool literature and writing curriculum that uses classic books, discussion, writing, and principle-based experiences to help students think deeply, communicate clearly, and build lives of purpose.