Saturday, February 11, 2012

Who Dun It?

In history everyone was required to read a book on the Mountain Meadows Massacre.  After discussing it in class, a character was given to each of us to read up on.  We had to know on who the character blamed the massacre.  Arriving at the history room for class we saw a sign that lead us to a unused room off of the gym where we found our teacher sitting with one small lamp for the whole room.  She told us that a murder had happened and, as our characters, we needed to determine who from the massacre would have committed the crime.  Lots of people jumped whole heartedly into their new persona, accusing others left and right to save themselves from blame over the murder.  I, Nephi Johnson, the translater for the Indians, had no blame placed on me but my job fell to clear the Indians of any blame.  Hilarity ensued for the next hour as we narrowed the possible suspects down to two people, neither of which was conclusive.  This break from normal class really helped us to absorb the attitudes of those involved in the massacre.  I'm interested to see what other interesting things we do this semester.  And so we go.

1 comment:

  1. I feel asleep early last night so I'll do two today, this one is for the 10th.

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