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The Time Has Come: Poetry and Drama Use in the Geography Class Lesson PlanThe Time Has Come: Poetry and Drama Use in the Geography Class Lesson Plan
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Students use drama and poetry in their Geography class. In groups, they role play an interviewer or the interviewee in various plays that were presented to them. In their role, they must locate and label where the countries mentioned are or any other important historical event. To end the lesson, they review the large amount of vocabulary they were introduced to at the beginning of the lesson.

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