Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.
Analysis and Discussion
Objective: To have students reflect on this experience.
Activity: 1) The absent student attempts to piece together what actually happened from student lists. 2) Absent student shares with the class his/her perception of what happened. 3) Class determines "accuracy" of that moment of history. 4) Students discuss why their narrowed viewpoint made getting the "big picture" so difficult and perhaps then impossible.
Assessment: Students will hand in their original list and a rewrite when all of the knowledge has been pooled together.