Reacting to the Past

History comes to life in our Gaming the Government program. Brought to Leffell by History Department Chair Harry Shontz and now used across several grades, this program has students take on the roles of historical characters in role-play and simulation games. Whether they play the Soviet delegation at the Yalta Conference or a sixteenth-century Chinese bureaucrat, students learn about governmental structures and key historical flashpoints as they analyze primary sources and then wheel, deal, scheme, and debate each other – and possibly even change the course of history!