Walk Through The Revolution

Jenna's 5th grade class participated in a Walk Through The Revolution presented by an outside company and paid for by our PTO.  You can click on the link to read about the program.  The students competed in teams (Rebels, Loyalists and Tories) with each member of the team assigned a key term or a historical figure and part to memorize, and each team acted out a battle sequence from the war.  Jenna was Nancy Morgan Hart, a woman who was very clever in outsmarting some Loyalists who came to her house and demanded food.  You can read about her by clicking on her name.  The team members scored extra points for memorizing their part, being in costume and using props.  Jenna did all three and scored 50 points for her team.  The uber-charasmatic facilitator tells the story of the events and characters from the time period, and the kids learn a ton as they listen for key terms, events and their own character's name in the story. The students jumped up to participate when ever they heard their name/event/term mentioned.  What a great program and something the kids will remember the rest of their lives.  I'll mostly remember Jenna asking me to rag tie her hair so it would be curly.  Hee, hee.