Zane's second grade class learned about historic Americans by each learning about a character and becoming that person for an evening. This was the most clever and entertaining school performance I can remember. Zane was Johnny Appleseed. Others in his class posed as Walt Disney, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Buffalo Bill, Rosa Parks, Emilia Earhart, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Blackwell, Neil Armstrong, MLK, John Lennon (who performed the song "Imagine"), Daniel Boone, Dr. Seuss, Annie Oakley and many more. They learned facts about their person and were then interviewed by parents and grandparents. My favorite (besides Johnny Appleseed) was Muhammad Ali. When I asked him why he stopped fighting, this eight-year-old said, "I was getting Parkinson's Disease and I was starting to lose fights." During the process of practicing their parts the kids all learned about each other's historic figure. They started calling each other by their new names. Zane even started signing his school papers, Johnny" for the week.
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