Teaching about communism in Social Studies and I came up with a real-life scenario for the students. I split the class in two and told half of them they were communist and the other half that they were democratic. They were to research their government and prepare for a class debate. The catch being, the communist side could only use 3 preselected websites and a dictionary for research. Anything they wanted to say in the debate must be cleared through me and they had to wear armbands. The democratic side could do anything they wanted to prepare.
After the researching and the debate, my students asked...
"Can we be communist for a day! We want you to tell us where we can sit and what to eat and where to play at recess!"
Excuse me? You are willingly giving up your freedoms? K.
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