Bringing History to Life
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Activity Eight - Interview |
One student plays the part of the figure from history and must do enough research to answer any questions posed by the class. In order to move past the obvious factoids like "When were you born?" a team of student interviewers works to find out the person's greatest and worst moments. They know enough to select from the Biography Questions of Import. This statue of Tzar Nikolai "the Liberator" of Russia in the center of Sofia, Bulgaria struck my eye when visiting in February. It depicts his "liberation" of Bulgaria from the Turks during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. If we had him in the room on the interview couch, we might ask questions like the following:
Imagine that you could interview Lin Tse-hsü the architect of the Chinese campaign to end opium addiction back in the 1830s that led to the First Opium War. What questions would you want to ask him? |
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