Northern Ireland Role Play Evaluation Essay

Your assignment is to write a 350-500 word essay (intro, body, conclusion paragraphs, please) evaluating the Workable Peace curriculum and examining your experience with it. It is appropriate to relate back to the Athens-Melos role play and Framework unit from Ancient Greece, however it is important to lend a particular focus on the Northern Ireland role play as well. Be sure to provide evidence and examples in your responses. As always be specific, use details, and fully explain WHY you conclude what you do.   Key questions you should address in the essay follow:  

* What did you learn from the Workable Peace curriculum? (about history, about yourself, about our community)

* Which parts of the curriculum were most effective and interesting? Why?

* What did you do differently in the Northern Ireland role play that altered your performance/contribution to the negotiations?

* How did these changes strengthen or weaken your participation?

* What would you do differently next time? Why?

* How, if at all, are the lessons relevant to our lives ­ as Americans in 2000, as teenagers in Philadelphia, as students at Friends' Central?