In this activity, students will either choose from three decks of cards made ahead of time or role three pre-made large dice. There will be a set of cards or dice for Occupation, Year, and Gender. Let's say you roll/choose Explorateur / 1910 / femme. Your partner will ask you if the grouping is possible,
Est-ce possible?
If it were possible you would reply
Oui, c'est possible!
But since it's not, you would reply
Oui, mais ce n'est pas probable!
(Yes, but it's not probably/likely.) I want to get at the idea that just because it isn't likely or just because our information doesn't reflect it, doesn't mean it's not possible. Then each player gets an opportunity to make a change to one card to see if he or she can make it more likely –
plus probable.
After switching partners several times for variety and varying viewpoints, students can create two unlabeled drawings, exploring the ideas of most and least probable combinations. They will make a most probable, archetypal character as well as a least probable character. Here we will see what students have absorbed based on what is present and absent in each drawing. Students will then choose someone
else's
drawing and present it to the class. The student will make a declaration on if they think they chose the most probable or least probable character will give reasons for their opinion. The class will agree or disagree, giving reasons.