Style: Guessing Game

The teacher / facilitator elects a student who chooses a character and researches it. The rest of the group have to ask questions which allow for yes/no answers only. They will need access to the source material in order to ask difficult questions (and inadvertantly learn something). The elected student is allowed twenty questions with which to work out who their character is. Once he/she has ascertained the real identity of the character, the student marks him/herself on the timeline that already exists on the classroom wall.

Simple, sweet and a great way of conveying information. Ten minutes every day as part of the class or meeting.

Method #6 (b)

Variation of the same game in that it is the group who ask yes/no questions after receiving the first letter of the character's last name and on that basis start asking questing to the effect of....."are you a famous, for example, politician (knowing that the surname ends in "M" and thinking of Golda Meir)....?", to which the person replies "No, I'm not Golda Meir" . If they do not have a reply, then the group have a free question whereby they can ask a straight yes/no question direct.

Otherwise known as "Botticelli", this game is simply a harder version of the above with a little added spice.