What's My Line? (Theater Game)

This is a theater game that is really fun to play and can be revised to fit a social studies class.

The teacher puts a number of famous quotes from historical figures into a hat. Two students draw a quote and, without yet reading the quote, go up to the front of the class at a time and begin to act out a scene that is set up by the teacher (e.g., two people in a parking lot search for their car. At some point, one of the actors pulls out the quote and reads it. They now continue the skit in the direction suggested by the quote.

A guaranteed way to get students to remember an important quote!

--Tonya Kienow