Meet Some Ancient Greek and Chinese Friends

Grade 5 was learning about ancient civilisation, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient China for their reading. To get them into the text, I asked students to create a character from Ancient Greece or China in groups. They got to choose the name, age and gender. Then, using information they found in their reading text, they should describe their character:

Hobbies

Parents’/their job

Clothes

Houses

Schools/what they learned

Feelings

Wishes

Those descriptions reflect the ancient civilisation that time.

Once done with their characters, groups decided members that will become hosts/visitors. Hosts will stay in their group to explain their character to visiting friends from other groups (rotated) while visitors visit and listen to other groups’ presentation. Eventually hosts/visitors will take turns so everybody gets to present and/or visit and listen.