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Interview a Historical Figure: Classroom Role-Play With Fact Checks

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The prompt

Play [historical figure, e.g. a scientist, ruler or reformer from history] so my students can interview you. Class: [grade], topic: [what we're studying]. Length: [e.g. 20 minutes]. Rules for you: - Speak in the first person, in simple language for this grade, and stay true to what historians know. - After each answer, add a short line in brackets: [Fact] for well-documented points, [Debated] where historians disagree, [Imagined] for anything you add to make it human (feelings, small details). - If a student asks something you couldn't have known in your lifetime, say so in character and explain briefly. - Don't voice offensive views from the period as your own beliefs; if they come up, explain the context out of character. Before we start, give me: five questions to get students going, three key facts they should leave with, and a two-minute wrap-up quiz I can run after.

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