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This is a fun story to share. In my AP Government and Politics class, the students are playing a role-playing game designed by John Patrick Coby wherein we recreate the Constitutional Convention.
20 students have a character, biography,ideology, motives. We write a Constitution.
20 students have a character, biography,ideology, motives. We write a Constitution.
But there are a lot of twists and turns, one of which is that if news of the convention is "leaked" by the Confederalists, the Nationalists threshold to enact the Constitution goes from 70% to 75%.
For the purposes of the game, "leaks" occur on the senior class bulletin board and must not be discovered before 7th period.
My high schoolers being my high schoolers, they& #39;ve taken to using "leaks" to denounce each other ... in meme form.
Here are some of the denunciations.
Anyway, they& #39;re very entertained by all this, so I expect the "leaks" will continue.
[The best part is that while they& #39;re using memes, backbiting, secret alliances, and trickery, they& #39;re inadvertently learning the difference between a Hamiltonian Republic and a Madisonian one.]
[You& #39;ve never seen a student so worked up about unicameralism as "Mr. Martin" was after she lost the vote on Wednesday.]
Anyway, if you& #39;re interested in the game, I highly recommend it. I mean heck if you have like 15 other nerdy friends you could just do it because it& #39;s fun. https://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Convention-1787-Constructing-American/dp/0393640906/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=reacting+the+past+patrick+coby&qid=1619222812&sr=8-1">https://www.amazon.com/Constitut...
