Christmas Truce: Crafting a Reader’s Theater

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A golden color, metal container with an image of a woman's side profile in the center, "M" to the left and right, and artistic embellishments around the edges.

Through a mixture of historical analysis, critical media literacy skills, and creativity, students will discover how soldiers at war could find camaraderie across a battlefield. Students will use a variety of primary and secondary sources about the 1914 Christmas Truce to craft characters and dialogue into a reader’s theater.