OPENING READING
Choose Either Activity 1 or Activity 2
Activity 1: Design a Mock Trial Learning Plan
Activity 2: Design a Dramatic Moment in History Role-Play
Assignment Due October 26 at 4:00 PM
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How To--And How Not To--Teach Role Play, Zinn Education Project (September 2019)
Extended Roleplay Exercises in the History Classroom, Edutopia (April, 2016)
Activity 1: Design a Mock Trial Learning Plan
Recreating famous court cases can be a powerful learning experience for students. But everyone has to have an active role in the process and students need opportunities to express what they have learned from the activity.
1) Choose One of the following Wiki pages for Court Cases
The Peter Zenger Trial of 1735
The Amistad Case
The Scopes Trial
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
The Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials
Sylvia Mendez and Mendez v. Westminster Court Case
2) Develop a Learning Plan for how you would conduct this in your class.
- What would be your Opener?
- What would be your Close?
- How would you assess what students have learned?
3) Write one paragraph each for your Ideas, Issues, and Insights for using Mock Trials as a learning activity
Activity 2: Design a Dramatic Moment in History Role-Play
Dramatic moments are events in history that can be a particular focus for historical investigation by students and teachers. Key issues and themes can be revealed and explored during such moments. Dramatic moments offer an opportunity for everyone to dig more deeply into an event which otherwise might be passed over in the rush to get through the immense amounts of material found in U.S. and world history survey courses.
1) Choose One of the following Wiki pages for Dramatic Moments
The English Peasant Revolt of 1381
Lord Jeffrey Amherst and the Smallpox Blankets
Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918
The 1949 Communist Revolution in China
The Berlin Airlift and the Berlin Wall
The Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979
2) Develop a Learning Plan for how you would conduct this in your class.
- What would be your Opener?
- What would be your Close?
- How would you assess what students have learned?
3) Write one paragraph each for your Ideas, Issues, and Insights for using Dramatic Moment Role-Plays as a learning activity
NOT PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT
ROLE-PLAY: If There Is No Struggle . . . Teaching a People's History of the Abolition Movement, Zinn Education Project
You Are There: Historical Simulations from Cengage
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