Interview with a Historical Figure
	1. Draw up a list of historical figures.  You may wish to confine yourself to the individuals mentioned in these units (Maimonedes, Moses, Aaron, Janusz Korczak, Anne Frank, Hannah Senessch, the Baal Shem Tov, and Pope Pius XII), or you may wish to widen the selection by adding your own names. 2. Either assign a name to each student or allow them to pick their own. 3. Have students submit to you a minimum of fivc significant and appropriate questions they plan to use in their interviews.  Questions should be approved by you to assure that the project will be meaningful, substantial and appropriate. 4. Allow students time to do whatever research is necessary to compose the answers they think their historical figure would give to their questions.  Have them polish it up to make a comprehensive dialogue.  Stress that you are looking for creativity as well as accuracy and substance. 5. The interviews may be presented either in written form, or acted out in class with one student playing the part of an interviewer and another the part of the historical figure.  If you choose to have the interviews acted out, you may wish to have students research and compose them in pairs.  If the interviews are enacted before the class, click here for my guidleines on grading performances.