More Post-Trip Activities
The following is another example of a post-trip activity the teacher could have students do after a visit to the Maggie Walker House.
Maggie Walker knew many influential African Americans, like Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Mary McLeod Bethune. These men and women were Maggie Walker’s friends and would often stop by her home for a visit, dinner or for a place to stay. All of these influential people are mentioned during the tour of the museum and are displayed in Maggie’s study, in the 101 Most Prominent Colored People poster.
After touring the Maggie Walker Museum (and back in the classroom), students will take what they’ve learned from the museum and use it in an activity called “Who’s Knocking on Maggie Walker’s Door” (this activity entails students to create a skit about Maggie Walker and her friends, role play the skit and have the other groups guess “Who’s Knocking on Maggie Walker’s Door”). The teacher will break up students into groups of 6 (4 to a group) and hand them a card with a name on it (the name on the card will be one of Maggie Walker’s friends mentioned above). The students will view the name and begin thinking and writing information about that person. If students are having trouble remembering information on that person, they may use materials to help them, like textbooks, the internet, or reading books from the library (an encyclopedia is also helpful). Students are to take the information about that person and construct a skit about them. While writing the skit, students should answer these questions:
Why am I important? What are my contributions to the African
American Community?
Where am I from? How did my childhood affect me to become the
person I am?
Whom did I influence?
When groups are finished writing their skits, the teacher will ask each group to present their skit to the class. One member of the group is to play Maggie Walker (and will say, “Who’s knocking on my door?”) and the other group members are to present clues about her friend (the friend will say, “It’s me, the person who… and go on from there). While presenting, groups should pause and ask the other groups if they know who it is. When a group guesses the correct person, the presenting group may sit down and allow for another group to come up and perform their skit. If no group guesses the correct person, then they may ask questions to help them figure out who the friend is.
Source: http://www.mauryplace.com/black-history-museum.html
Maggie Walker knew many influential African Americans, like Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Mary McLeod Bethune. These men and women were Maggie Walker’s friends and would often stop by her home for a visit, dinner or for a place to stay. All of these influential people are mentioned during the tour of the museum and are displayed in Maggie’s study, in the 101 Most Prominent Colored People poster.
After touring the Maggie Walker Museum (and back in the classroom), students will take what they’ve learned from the museum and use it in an activity called “Who’s Knocking on Maggie Walker’s Door” (this activity entails students to create a skit about Maggie Walker and her friends, role play the skit and have the other groups guess “Who’s Knocking on Maggie Walker’s Door”). The teacher will break up students into groups of 6 (4 to a group) and hand them a card with a name on it (the name on the card will be one of Maggie Walker’s friends mentioned above). The students will view the name and begin thinking and writing information about that person. If students are having trouble remembering information on that person, they may use materials to help them, like textbooks, the internet, or reading books from the library (an encyclopedia is also helpful). Students are to take the information about that person and construct a skit about them. While writing the skit, students should answer these questions:
Why am I important? What are my contributions to the African
American Community?
Where am I from? How did my childhood affect me to become the
person I am?
Whom did I influence?
When groups are finished writing their skits, the teacher will ask each group to present their skit to the class. One member of the group is to play Maggie Walker (and will say, “Who’s knocking on my door?”) and the other group members are to present clues about her friend (the friend will say, “It’s me, the person who… and go on from there). While presenting, groups should pause and ask the other groups if they know who it is. When a group guesses the correct person, the presenting group may sit down and allow for another group to come up and perform their skit. If no group guesses the correct person, then they may ask questions to help them figure out who the friend is.
Source: http://www.mauryplace.com/black-history-museum.html