Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Define the issues and questions that they would discuss with the President. Identify the social, political and popular personalities that have helped shape our culture and articulate the elements that are important for understanding a person's nature. Synthesize and communicate information about a famous personality or historic figure to create a template from which to draft a fictional encounter between significant cultural figures. Integrate their information and template to create a fictional account of the encounter of two historic personalities.
Students then share their answers.
This article is clearly meant to be humorous. As a class, students will brainstorm a list of influential people, living or dead, in American society. The list should include politicians, artists, musicians, movie stars, civil rights activists, scientists, writers, etc. The list should be at least as long as the number of students in the class and reflective of the interests and diversity of the students. Students should then brainstorm a list of questions or details that they think are needed to form an understanding of another person's character, including personality and appearance as elements.