Trail of Tears Fishbowl Activity
When you come to class tomorrow, you will be a part of a "fishbowl" activity. Here is how it will happen:
- You will be placed into one of four groups: Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Christian Missionaries, Cherokees who are resisting removal
- Each group will receive the same six handouts.
- Your group will work to prepare one member of your group to participate in a debate and attempt to reach a consensus on what should happen to the Cherokee. These
- As the debate goes on in an inner circle, the other members of the group may pass notes to the person inside the fishbowl, but you may not speak
We will then look at various points of the debate and see what kinds of conclusion we can come to.
Source: Chandler, Prentice T. "Manifest Destiny and Competing Voices on the Eve of the Cherokee Removal." Social Education 75.3 (May/June 2011): 153-57. Print.