Modified from:
http://www.csudh.edu/socstudies/tor008.htm
Franco | Hitler | Stalin | Mussolini
- Author: Ron Thibodeaux
- Subject: World History, Totalitarianism in the Modern World
- Focus: The aspect of
Totalitarianism. It uses interpersonal skills for students to learn from each other with an interviewing activity.
- Goals: The students will achieve a more personal understanding of the Totalitarian Dictators of the late 1930ís and early 1940ís.
- Connections: Students will connect their prior knowledge of Totalitarian Dictators to a question and answer format so that their knowledge is
reinforced in an entertaining manner.
- Activity Description:
- Day One: Students will play the Dictator Dating Game with the teacher as the host. Teacher chooses actors, reporters and fact finders to each group. Each
group represents one of the Totalitarian Dictators of the era, such as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco. Within their groups, students find answers to
various assigned questions about the lives of the dictator that they are to represent. The students will perform the following jobs:
Fact Finder: The fact finders help to find the answers to the questions, and writes those answers out for the actors.
Actor: The actor plays the role of the dictator assigned to the group, and must learn the potential responses to the questions that will arise during
the actual class exercise.
Reporter: The reporter will issue a welcome statement that describes each dictator's accomplishments and welcome him to the show.
Minimum of questions to be answered:
1. What is your IDEAL date?
2. where would you go and WHY?
3. What are your PET PEEVES?
4. What kind of books do YOU like?
5. What are YOUR hobbies?
6. What do you do in your SPARE TIME?
7. What are your favorite methods for CONTROLLING the masses?
Day Two: Students come together having rehearsed their roles in the Dictator Dating Game activity, and on day two, the show takes place. The actors sit on a
panel before the rest of the class and answer the questions that are asked of them, maintaining their roles at all times.
- Extension: Students tie Totalitarianism into their own lives. The teacher asks the students to give an example of how their own lives might have a
reflection of Totalitarianism, giving hints that maybe their parents or teachers or local police are the dictators of their everyday lives.
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