Lesson 19: The Great Chicago Fire: The O’Leary Hearing Objective Outcome Activities Supplies Multiple Intelligences Thinking Skill

One Day approximately 45 minutes                

Learning Standard: State Goal 16D: Understand Illinois, United States and world social history.

Objective: Recreate the O’Leary Hearing by creating a dramatization.
Outcome: Dramatization (Kinesthetic)

Activities:

	Distribute the script of the O’Leary hearing
	Read together as a class

(Note: Some students may create the dialogue for a hearing accusing someone else of setting the Great Chicago Fire and present their dramatization.)

Illinois Double Entry Journal Prompt page 30:

Describe a time when you were falsely accused.

Multiple Intelligences: Interpersonal and Spatial
Thinking Skill: Synthesis

Supplies:
1.  Script from the O’Leary Hearing
2.  Dramatization Rubric
3.  Illinois Double Entry Journal

Student Groupings: Cooperative groups

Collaborators: Patti Besick, Mary Alice Lindvall, Sue Zerafa Created: 09/14/98 Modified: 07/31/06 School District 54, Schaumburg, Illinois http://web54.sd54.k12.il.us/district54/socst/illinois/lessons/less19.htm