Hot seating By Fla. Teacher

I love doing hot seating, an activity that we were taught back in Britain when I was a student.
First you read a chapter and put chairs (hot seats) out the front of the class for the characters that were just discussed

in the chapter. You choose student to be the characters in the chapter and one to be the chair. All questions go through the chairperson and it is their job to make sure each character has a chance to act out their part. The rest of the class have to think up questions to ask such as .."Why did you like pulling her pigtails?"(I do not remember the character's name) They have

to put themselves inside the character's shoes.
This helps students to learn to infer the feelings of the characters in the book.
This can be done with most subjects including social studies.
Hope this is helpful. Great book by the way :)

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