Choose a short section of the novel and make it into a 10 minute play. Choose a section that can be dramatized. Select pages with plenty of speech, preferably with an engaging dramatic situation underlying it, such as the beginning of chapter four, when Lieutenant Henry is awaken by the sound of an artillery battery. Conventional play layout has the characters' names in capitals on the left side of the page, followed by a colon, a space and the words they say. Type any stage directions in capital letters and tab them once or twice, to indent them.
Have a debate about gun control. Give the participants a position to defend. Should anyone be allowed to own a gun? Or does this increase the likelihood of violent crime? Is the right to bear arms more important than other rights? On a national level, is it right for countries to stock huge arsenals of weapons? Or does this make armed conflict inevitable? Could we reduce the world's stockpile of missiles and still have a safe world?
In chapter five, Miss Barkley calls Italian "a beautiful language" and it is a language much admired by singers because of its open vowel sounds. A good project idea is to learn some Italian phrases. "Si" means "yes" and "no" means "no." According to Transparent Language, basic Italian phrases include "per favore" which means "please" and "grazie" which means "thank you." "Buon giorno" means "good morning," "buona sera" is "good evening" and "buona notte" translates as "good night."
Nursing is a key theme of the novel. Research modern nursing and create a PowerPoint presentation on how things have changed since the First World War. Look at World War I photographs and films and do drawings and paintings showing the conditions in the trenches and on the battlefields. Work out anagrams to "A Farewell to Arms," such as "warfare allots me". Find out about Ernest Hemingway's other works and compare and contrast them with "A Farewell to Arms."