Description
Reacting to the Past (RTTP) is an established program that works to engage students on a deeper level by having them
work with primary material actively through role playing. Students are assigned primary readings from the era under
discussion and are then given a role to play in an interactive game. For the French Revolution, for example, a student
might be assigned the role of a literary figure, a politician, or an artist. The game is intended to take about six weeks,
leaving ten weeks for lecture and reading. Students will navigate the complexity of historical arguments and debates,
not only exploring the facts, but the ways people of the time interpreted and used facts to make decisions.