The Admissions Game, 1840

Your US history class (grades 7 and up) becomes the Admissions Committee for the fictitious United States University, inducting its first Freshman class in 1840. Which movers and shakers of the day will be accepted? Your students will write Recommendation Letters for their candidates and then your whole class becomes the admissions committee. Rebels and radicals, businessmen, literary figures, soldiers and diplomats, inventors will all be present. There are only nine slots! Who will be admitted? This lesson serves to ignite students' passions and desires to learn. Basic questions of society and citizenship are explored. Test preparation