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Violinist Joshua Heifetz and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played violins in tandem and Elvis serenaded the crowd with a rendition of "Love Me Tender" on the guitar. The Pharaoh Hatshepsut responded to an introduction with a disdainful "What is this handshaking that you do?" It was the annual Sixth Grade Famous People Mingle and Munch.
The event is a culmination of a biography study. Each student chooses a famous person to research and feature in a foldable project. Students then become the famous person they researched by planning costumes, mannerisms, and speech. They all come together at a doughnut reception, meeting other famous people who share their epoch, as well as those who cross barriers in space, time, race and class. The dress is elaborate and the conversations are hilarious, but the lessons learned endure. As one upper schooler told Mingle and Munch creator, sixth-grade reading teacher Jeanne Mulligan recently, "I was in Mr. Seigman's biology class the other day and we were discussing Rachel Carson, but I WAS Rachel Carson."
This year's famous people included Cleopatra, Jesse Owens, Mary Cassat, Confucius, Sally Ride, Martin Luther King, Anna Pavlova, Edgar Allen Poe, Iqbal Masih, Oskar Schindler, Sir Edmund Hilary, Jane Goodall, and Norman Schwartzkopf. The 2005 gathering also featured "Big" famous people, as Mrs Mulligan called them—seniors who also dressed up and mingled with their sixth-grade counterparts (such as the Heifetz-Mozart meeting). Some of these personages included Eleanor Roosevelt, Homer, and Tiger Woods.
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Violinist Joshua Heifetz and composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played violins in tandem and Elvis serenaded the crowd with a rendition of "Love Me Tender" on the guitar. The Pharaoh Hatshepsut responded to an introduction with a disdainful "What is this handshaking that you do?" It was the annual Sixth Grade Famous People Mingle and Munch.
The event is a culmination of a biography study. Each student chooses a famous person to research and feature in a foldable project. Students then become the famous person they researched by planning costumes, mannerisms, and speech. They all come together at a doughnut reception, meeting other famous people who share their epoch, as well as those who cross barriers in space, time, race and class. The dress is elaborate and the conversations are hilarious, but the lessons learned endure. As one upper schooler told Mingle and Munch creator, sixth-grade reading teacher Jeanne Mulligan recently, "I was in Mr. Seigman's biology class the other day and we were discussing Rachel Carson, but I WAS Rachel Carson."
This year's famous people included Cleopatra, Jesse Owens, Mary Cassat, Confucius, Sally Ride, Martin Luther King, Anna Pavlova, Edgar Allen Poe, Iqbal Masih, Oskar Schindler, Sir Edmund Hilary, Jane Goodall, and Norman Schwartzkopf. The 2005 gathering also featured "Big" famous people, as Mrs Mulligan called them—seniors who also dressed up and mingled with their sixth-grade counterparts (such as the Heifetz-Mozart meeting). Some of these personages included Eleanor Roosevelt, Homer, and Tiger Woods.