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When I was in elementary school, I had a speech problem. One of the games my tutor and I played was “Who said it?” There were inspirational sayings and quotes around her room. So she would say a quote and I would try to guess who said it. If I guessed right, I got the point and read the next one for her to guess. When I had to take public speaking class in high school and college, I made sure that my speeches always had colorful quotes to get the audiences attention. In history class, we did something like this except with dates. We would have pictures and other articles in the room and then we would have to guess which era that came from. For example, in the 1970s there were three United States presidents. Why? Richard Nixon resigned from office after the Watergate scandal. Then we would talk about how this affected other areas. I never thought they went deep enough in the subject so I always did research to see what else happened. I still like to look at the 1970s because there are things I knew about, but now I see how history is changing today’s events. Our students would also benefit from games like this because it encourages further discussion. History should be more than facts, it is life.