Harnessing Students' Competitive Spirit: Using <em>Reacting to the Past</em> to Structure the Introductory Greek Culture Class

Abstract

All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms * I would like to thank Erika Hermanowicz, Bartolo Natoli, Jeanne Neumann and my two anonymous readers for their valuable comments, as well as Nicholas Gardner, my graduate assistant. 1 Reacting to the Past is a pedagogy developed in the 1990s by Mark C. Carnes at Barnard College; it uses game dynamics and historical simulation to help students understand important world events. At this point, there are ten published games and several games in development. For a complete list of games, visit www.reacting.barnard.edu (last accessed on December 11, 2016). The Athenian game is well known to classicists. There was a panel devoted to it at the annual SCS meeting in January, 2013 in Seattle, and the 2015 annual meeting in New Orleans included two panels which featured papers on Reacting to the Past.