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- Volume 25
- Issue 4
- Publication Date: Fall 2002
Presidents’ Day in Second Grade With First-Person Presentations
Ronald V. Morris
The second-grade students of All Saints School perform first-person historical presentations using all the Presidents of the United States as their characters. After doing extensive research, the students use the results to interpret their specific President in front of a public audience; compile a speech and deliver their presentations about their President. They present a one-minute overview of the President’s life in first-person characterization including costumes. They do this dramatization in connection with Presidents’ Day and have been studying the U.S. Presidency from the time they return to school after New Year’s Day until Presidents’ Day, at which time they perform on stage in front of an assemblage of parents, grandparents, friends, and media representatives.
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