Tasha's with a Tweak


I really enjoyed Tasha’s role play strategy. It gave an insightful look at who the characters were even though we had not read the book, the raw emotion of the play put us in the character’s shoes and allow us to have some sort of an emotional connection with them. I could use this strategy ion my content area when it comes to History. There are many plays that are based upon historical events that would allow us to change things up from the everyday textbook activities. One way that I may tweak this assignment is to get them to read the play and then create their own dialogue in a modern-day speech. In order to do this, they would have to cooperate and have a sound knowledge of the information that was going on in the play.

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