When you are ready to participate in the discussion, you will first make a presentation as if you were your character, then you will respond to another student while still in character. Finally, you will break
character and share with your classmates what you learned,
Your teacher will organize your discussion. Expect to spend time making points as your character
and then responding to others. At the end there will be some time to break character and discuss
what you learned in the activity,
Historical Figures
Chairperson of Women's Temperance Movement. Place yourself in a turn-of-the-century town that
has high rates of unemployment and family violence. Imagine yourself as the chairperson of the local
chapter of the Women's Temperance Movement. You are about to give a speech in favor of the
Eighteenth Amendment. What three points would you make in a short speech in favor of this
amendment?
1.
2
3.