Students then assign information retrieval to selected students who will then share what they find with the group. On the second day, class starts with sharing of found information. Other students then ask follow-up questions to gain a better idea of what is there. This continues for three or four days until students are ready for the interview. On the day of the interview, an actor who plays the interviewer comes into class and role plays the official.
Students take turns interviewing and answering questions.
An alternative is to have students write a letter to the official, foregoing the interview. Includes accounts of the Council House Massacre and Buffalo Hump's Great Raid through Texas in retaliation would be helpful to review. It tells about his adventures on the Upper Missouri in 1809 with the Missouri Fur Company, and his later adventures as one of the first American traders in Santa Fe and with the Comanche Indians. His book is an important historical source for both of these events. Based on the novel by Alan LeMay.