Body Bios?

In our class on November 6th, we did some Body Biographing for Educating Esme`.
This was a great activity that I can see myself using with historical figures in the future.
While it was fun to do this activity with the heroine of our story, Esme`, I think it would be even more amusing to see my students do this activity with a historical character such a Hitler, Mussolini, or even FDR.
People's perceptions of these figures will be extremely interesting to view.
I think it will be an entertaining activity to see students draw Hitler as this short, small man (more than likely) with a small, narrow brain and mind, Mussolini as a fat, small man with a small, narrow mind, and as FDR and other whimsical Americans (Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, etc) as these larger than life, wonderful men and women that have done so much for the United States while these opponents (and within good reason, Hitler and Mussolini were horrible people) will be drawn as horrible, scary, small minded men.

I think this is an important activity to do and it also presents the opportunity to our students to actively participate and engage with their peers, share ideas, and move freely around the classroom (using that bodily-kinesthetic intelligence we've learned about in 578!)