
The Classes They Remember
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A clear how-to guide to get the most out of role-playing in your class;
Ready-made units and lessons to get you started right away, complete with sample scripts, scaffolding worksheets, and assessment rubrics;
Templates and step-by-step instructions to help you design your own role-plays.
The pre-made units, which Sherrin spent years refining in his classroom, cover historical topics such as the rise of Nazi Germany and the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. You'll also find fun and interactive role-plays based on literary works like The Pearl and Fences. These lessons will help students at all ability levels to become better communicators, problem-solvers, and creative thinkers.
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"Sherrin animates history and English by having students stitch together textual evidence to understand the human-ness of people in the past and characters in our literature. By placing students in the center of complex choices, Sherrin is able to tease out the larger questions of the Humanities, including "Why do people do what they do?" Readers will glean important how-to advice on using role-play to build curiosity spaces in the classroom-an important step in practicing perspective-taking and civic agency!" --Kathy Swan, Professor, University ofKentucky and lead writer of the C3 Framework for Social Studies"Living history is the best way to remember it. Re-enacting powerful novels and epoch-making events wherein you must play roles as actors on the stage of history is next best. This is what David Sherrin does with his classes, helping students dig deeply into the consequences of human motivation in literature and life. These history makers will, truly, remember his masterly direction of their role-plays for a lifetime." --John Barell, Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Teaching at Montclair State University, and author of Moving from What to What If: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments
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Meet the Author
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Playing with Our Minds
Part 1: A Role-Play How-to-Guide
1. Common Questions about Role-Playing
2. Creating Role-Plays
3. Executing Role-Plays
Part 2: Examples of Historical Role-Plays
4. The Aztec-Spanish Encounter
5. Germany between the Wars
Part 3: Examples of Literature Role-Plays
6. Fences, The Pearl, and More
Conclusion
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