The “Who Did What?”  Game

Objective:  To learn to match pictures of famous historical achievers with their actions and accomplishments.  To identify as many achievers as possible and be able to verbally describe one of their accomplishments.

Facilitator:   There must one a teacher or facilitator who regulates everything and makes sure that players are giving legitimate responses.   The teacher can set a time limit for playing at the start of the game.

" Tell A Group Circle Story"

Objective:  To create a tale and build on it and arrive at a meaningful conclusion, while learning about cultural diversity, racial harmony and/or Black history...The GOAL of this game is to make a sensible story with a plot.

Supplies needed: 

(a) A score card for each participant.

(b) pictures, audio aids, graphics, maps, or other items in order to stimulate the start of the story....

FOR EXAMPLE: 

The teacher holds up a picture of a famous African-American inventor--

 Dr. George Washington Carver.

How to Play:  Participants sit in a circle facing each other. 

This game is best played with at least 4 people and no more than 12. 

a) The first player looks at whatever stimulus the leader has presented to the group and begins to tell a story based upon that--- FOR EXAMPLE:

"Once upon a time there was a man who was curious about how he could use plants to make other products that might help people...."

b) THEN THE NEXT STUDENT adds more to this story..but no more than 3 sentences.

c)  Each student must add at least one decent sentence (and no more than 3 sentences) to the story that was passed on from the previous student... No one student should dominate the time.

d)  After the story has gone completely around the circle 2 times,  each participant is then required to get a pencil and paper and write the CONCLUSION (or moral or ending) to that story.

e)  Each participant will have up to 3 min. to write the "conclusion" of that story.  Then they must present what they have written to the entire group orally.

SCORING: Then each student will rate each story--- 

                     1= Excellent;     2= Good;     3= Fair;     4= Bad, poor, non-sense.

  Players put their name at the top of their own Score Card and pass it around the group.  Each of the other players will give that person’s “conclusion” a number to rate it.

The workshop leader will add up the group's scores for each participant and then  select the best "conclusion"---and give awards or prizes.

WINNERS--- These "Conclusions" must be factual and make sense.  They must show that the participant did listen to the story that was created by the group---and that it lead to a logical outcome.

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 ....Middletown Roots--

-"READ THIS BOOK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TIMES--"the good old days"---which Senator Trent Lott was recalling with such fondness.....

---by Melvia F. Miller

MELVIA IS THE AUTHOR OF THESE ADVENTURES...AND THE FOLLOWING IS A....SNEAK PEEK at one of the chapters from the books:

   INTRODUCTION:

    In 1924 and 1925 studies were conducted in the small industrial city that later became well-known as “Middletown USA.”  This was one of the first scholarly works to attempt to describe the culture and social environment of a typical American city.  Helen and Robert Lynd published 2 books, based on these studies, titled: “Middletown” (1929) and “Middletown in Transition” (1937).
    Those authors described Middletown as a “good specimen of American culture…”  Middletown is a small city in eastern Indiana on the White River, 54 miles northeast of Indianapolis, IN.  They described the Teacher’s College as one that would grow into a major University.
    Forty years later, another group of scholars went back to Middletown and repeated additional studies.  They wrote a book titled: Middletown Families (1982). These books discuss the following topics in scholarly ways:

Religion and the Family
Working Women
The class system
Sex and Marriage

    However, little mention is given to the conditions or life-style of the African-American citizens who live in Middletown.  The only major comment made in all of these studies states, “There is a surplus of black children and a deficit of young black adults….”  This factor was attributed to the lack of decent jobs available to Blacks in Middletown.
    Unfortunately these books do not examine the plight, history or conditions of Middletown’s Black population.  During the time that the Lynds conducted their studies,  this city’s government was operated by the Ku Klux Klan.  Middletown was plagued by racial turmoil, protests, and segregation.  The African-Americans who lived in Middletown often called it "Dodge City"---likening it to the famous cowboy TV show.
    The stories in our book “MIDDLETOWN ROOTS” are derived from the diary and memoirs of our super-hero …Melina…who became  known as: “Super Sistah.”   Because of her exceptional writings that she did about the situation.  Since Melina was born and raised in Middletown, they are her actual accounts of events that took place in Middletown USA.  The stories are true…but some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

MANY BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT MIDDLETOWN--BUT NONE LIKE THIS ONE !

  SECTION 1---

"The Adventures of Super Sistah"

  PICTURE IT-----  Middletown, Indiana 1948:

    Our story begins  in 1948 in Middletown, Indiana on a cold December evening when an African-American baby girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. Melanin Milner.  They named their baby girl Melina.  Melanin and Liza Milner were the descendants of run-away slaves out of Kentucky.  Her great-grandparents had escaped from a plantation and lived with Indians. This couple lived on the side of town called:  “Brownly”---where all Black people were forced to live. 

    Most White people lived on one side of town and any other minority groups (e.g.--Mexicans, Africans, Puerto Ricans, etc.) were permitted to live only in certain sectors.   Racial segregation was the rule of law in those days.   This town became known as “Dodge City.” Middletown was a wild city in those days--filled with gamblers, gangsters, prostitution, and worse!!  Crime flourished in Middletown. Mobsters—such as Dillinger--- were known to be  active or heavily invested in Middletown’s ‘red light district.’   

    For the most part---the Black folks in Middletown operated their own stores, barber shops, restaurants,  cleaners, and other businesses. There were several African-American churches in Middletown...

    The city government for Middletown was run by the Ku Klux Klan and the area was known to be strong-hold for racist activities, lynchings, shoot-outs, boot-leg liquor, and worse. Grandpa and Grandma Milner lived only a few blocks away and were farmers who did "share-cropping" on land owned by a White man,  because the law did not permit Black people to own a farm in Indiana then.  So, he farmed for another man,  and was able to bring home plenty of fresh food for his own family.

    Melina grew up on the poor black side of town.  The houses there were basically little wooden boxes…nothing fancy.  Middletown is in the midst of the ‘cornbelt’ and there were plenty of fields of vegetables…---such as tomatoes, lettuce and corn---growing all around Whitely.
     Most of the Black people grew their own vegetables and ate the fruits from the trees.  And many of them traded foods with each other.  Food was often used as "money" between neighbors in order to trade for other objects that they wanted.  
    Gardens, food and plants were a significant influence in her life from the time she was a very young girl.  She enjoyed gardening in her own back yard. 
    One of the most popular forms of entertainment was to go fishing in  "Clear River."   Melina and her entire family often packed up a lunch,  chairs and poles and spent most of the day on the river bank.  The river was so clear that they could look straight into the water and see the bottom,  see fish and other creatures which swam in the river. Upon their return home,  their father would clean the fish and cook them for a delicious dinner.   Fish was one of Melina's favorite foods.
    Sometimes,  she and her friends would ride on their bikes to the river and spend nearly all day there, listening to a radio,  snacking and talking.  The attraction of being directly in contact with plants, water, fish,  nature, greenery, and sunshine was very pleasurable.  In fact,  it was a great escape from the harsh realities that they faced in a cold-hearted society.  

    One day when Melina was about 14 years old, she was there on the river bank with her sister, brother and father Melanin--- when several loud-mouth rednecks drove up to them in a small raggedy pick-up truck. One of the white men yelled in a sarcastic tone,..."Did you niggers catch anything today?"

     Well, Melanin was not in the mood for this crap...so he pulled out a small deringer that he kept in his belt and shot in the air above the white men's heads. They scattered like roaches when they saw the gun.  Melanin shouted back at them..."catch this!!!"

They were very accustomed to being harassed and ridiculed by white people in Middletown. 

Whenever incidents like this occurred (which was often)--Melina would recall fond memories of times that she and her friends had the chance to mess up some of the ridiculous offensive racist symbols, posters, souvenirs, statuettes, and such. Whenever they had the chance to get away with it, they would bust up one of those insulting black statues or "coon" images....or paint over it.  The best part of this activity was getting away scott free---throwing paint on or busting up one of these statues without capture.

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WORDS OF WISDOM FROM SUPER SISTAH...
**(from books by Melvia Miller)

Develop an attitude of gratitude!!
*COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!

* If you have never experienced starvation, you are RICHER than 500 million people in the world.

* If you have a place to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear...you are better off than 75% of the world.

* If you have never been in war or a violent battle...you are better off than 500 million people in the world.

TO DO--- Keep a 'Gratitude Diary' in which you make a
list of things, people and events for which you have appreciation.

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QUOTES FROM FAMOUS LEADERS & ACHIEVERS---

"You can find peace of mind, if you look way down in your heart and soul....

~QUOTE from song by EARTH, WIND & FIRE

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"We had better learn to live together in peace ---
lest we may die together as fighting fools."

~Quote by Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr.

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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be (for our race)...economic independence."
~BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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"Without struggle--there can be no progress."
~FREDERICK DOUGLAS (abolitionist & journalist)

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"Seek first the kingdom of God---and all else will be yours."

(Holy Bible)