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"Play It Out"

Activity

Summary

Participants will direct a play that portrays a historical event and learn to play different roles with different perspectives.

Instructional Strategies

1. Create an end of the semester or end of the year skit or play on a particular historical event.

2. Each child/student has a role.

3. Play it out so they feel the differences in perspective, interests and needs.

4. Identify who needed the most help.

5. Ask, what could have been done differently at that time in history?

Participant Tasks

1. Write and perform an end of the semester or end of the year skit or play on a particular historical event.

2. Be sure each of your classmates has a role.

3. Feel the differences in perspective, interests and needs.

4. Identify who needed the most help.

5. What could have been done differently at that time in history?

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