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.

Photographs of early days; compare with guided imagery.

Objective: To develop empathy for these pioneers and an understanding of their problems. To develop discussion techniques.

Activity: Show photographs and drawings of early Georgetown. Many of these are available from the local Historical Society. See how these photographs compare with their own images from the guided imagery. Discuss problems of the era and how the students feel about these people. Break students into small groups to make lists of pioneer problems and student feelings. Students teams brainstorm and record in mindmap form what they already know about their local history. From their mindmap, the students prepare questions for interviewing several native senior citizens who will visit the class during this unit and share their experiences about growing up in Georgetown in another time.

Assessment: Quality of discussion and group lists.