Drew's Living History Museum

Drew's big assignment in the first trimester was to do a 3-5 minute oral presentation on an important historical figure. He ended up with Benjamin Franklin. It's not clear how he came to be Benjamin Franklin. (He wanted to be Barak Obama.)

After all the kids were done with their presentations in the class, they opened it up for a few classes to come visit and see the historical figures. I went for one of the sessions. I walked around and tapped a few kids on their shoulder to "activate" the person, who would then do their presentation for me.

Here's Drew under his Benjamin Franklin booth. His props were entirely in the binder. Rich was determined that he have a different presentation than other kids in his class. Sure enough, between the binder and his presentation's organization, Drew did very well. Throughout the day, he was activated 16 times! He was exhausted by the end of the day.

 All of the rest of the kids made poster and many got dressed up. (I felt a little bad that Drew wasn't dressed up, but come on, Benjamin Franklin?)

This is Amelia Erhart, who I thought was one of the most well dressed up figures. Another was Mother Theresa, complete with white robes edged in blue and with a baby doll, wrapped up in a shawl.

The little girl in the armor was a famous Indian female soldier who fought for her province's freedom from the colonial British. She rattled off a crazy volume of very long names and lost me about a minute into her presentation. She was very soft spoken.

To the right is Drew's friend Kennedy, who was Martin Luther King Jr. She had a very good, very factual presentation.