The Persona Book: Curriculum-Based Enrichment for Educators, History Through Role-Playing

"Everyone knows that experience is the best teacher, but this book actually uses experience to teach students about history. Combining literature-based enrichment and role-playing, a variety of activities immerse students in past eras. After reading relevant literature, each student chooses a literary or historical figure, participates in events as that person, and creates projects based on their character's life." "The authors describe the concept of persona-based learning and show educators how to use it with the curriculum, then provide five complete enrichment units - the Middle Ages, ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, the American Civil War, and American heroes. Each chapter includes a literature base, performance recommendations, a list of personas, and a variety of library/classroom activities and projects. Motivational and practical, this innovative teaching tool encourages students to become active learners and lovers of history." --Book Jacket.