{"id":3445,"date":"2015-02-28T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2015-02-14T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:55:36","slug":"interpretation-exercise-complaint-letters-and-advertising-blurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/interpretations\/interpretation-exercise-complaint-letters-and-advertising-blurb\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretation Exercise &#8211; Complaint Letters v. Advertising Blurb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong>:\u00a0After playing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/Year_7\/Medieval_Life.htm\">Middle Ages Time Machine Adventure<\/a> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">activehistory.co.uk<\/a>, Sidney wrote a complaint letter to the Time Travel Holiday Agent about her experiences. One half of the class wrote similar complaint letters focusing on the <strong>negative<\/strong> dimension; the other half wrote travel brochures focusing on the <strong>positive<\/strong> experiences!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong>: This approach can work for any period or topic that has positive and negative sides to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking it further<\/strong>: Students could be paired together to produce a dramatised dialogue &#8211; the holidaymaker could storm into the travel agent demanding a refund by explaining the things which had gone wrong, whilst the travel agent would stress all the positive experiences which are either being omitted in the account or which provide a more rounded view of the situation \/ period in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview:\u00a0After playing the Middle Ages Time Machine Adventure at\u00a0activehistory.co.uk, Sidney wrote a complaint letter to the Time Travel Holiday Agent about her experiences. One half of the class wrote similar complaint letters focusing on the negative dimension; the other half wrote travel brochures focusing on the positive experiences! Examples: This approach can work for any&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/interpretations\/interpretation-exercise-complaint-letters-and-advertising-blurb\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[215,224,239,258,283,293],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Tz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}