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Global Review/World Leaders

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High schoolers are given a world leader to research a week before participating in a class game. Using the internet, they discover their major contribution to history and the time period and location in which they lived. They present their world leader to the class for them to decide who should be the focus of a essay competition.

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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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