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Role-Plays, Simulations, Drama

Page history last edited by Robert W. Maloy 3 years, 5 months ago

 

 

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

 

 

READ

 

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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