Cold War assignment

[Gil-Estel]

Hi you guys.

Last year I was trying to get ideas for a Cold War RPG to use in my class. I did and it was partly great and partly growing out of hand.....Kids were spying on eachother, hacking email and stealing stuff from other lockers. So they kind of captured the whole sense of the Cold War, that it was about not trusting eachother, being very careful in their approach. But I also -as a teacher- have to garantee some sort of safe environment, and so I had to pull the plug.

This year I'm thinking of something else. I want my pupils to interview some people from different sides of the story. I would love to have some emailaddresses of people from the US and from Eastern Germany. Especially from people who were in their early 20's during the height of the Cold War, like in the early 60's.

So if people are interested please let me know and let me grow some knowledge into these youngsters!

[menace64]

It seems that your kids have a good grasp of the Cold War.

You should have them play out the War of 1812.

[turin08]

Menace barely any English kids know about the war of 1812 and certainly aren't taught about it. Why would dutch kids learn about it.

[macheteman]

the key phrase would be "play out". hahaha, it's really funny, actually.

[SomeRandomDude]

Menace barely any English kids know about the war of 1812 and certainly aren't taught about it. Why would dutch kids learn about it.

Dutch kids would have more interest because they didn't lose it and thus don't want to forget it.

[Gil-Estel]

Well we had this dude Napoleon wandering around in Europe during those days, so that would be more interesting..but I have to stick to a certain program, which is ok, so please, if you know people who wouldn't mind answering some questions, it would help me a lot!

[turin08]

Yeah you know 'an important war' not a small skirmish. Actually acting out the war of 1812 could be quite fun. They could go to the house of the principal of a neighbouring school and burn it down.

[macheteman]

Yeah you know 'an important war' not a small skirmish. Actually acting out the war of 1812 could be quite fun. They could go to the house of the principal of a neighbouring school and burn it down.

exactly...

[SomeRandomDude]

Yeah you know 'an important war' not a small skirmish. Actually acting out the war of 1812 could be quite fun. They could go to the house of the principal of a neighbouring school and burn it down.

Yeah, and then get expelled! That would work perfectly!

[Gil-Estel]

and again, please respond as being asked.......