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Franklin, Catherine – Bank Street College of Education, 2003
This essay provides a window into an eighth-grade class engaged in a legislative curriculum drama. The author, an eighth-grade social studies and literature teacher at a private New York City elementary school, describes her use of a legislative curriculum drama to make an eight-week study of the legislative branch of government a more dynamic and…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Grade 8, Imagination, Inquiry