This course has been an incredible learning experience from the start. The lectures at the beginning of the semester were informative and full of new material I had never been exposed to. I enjoyed the way lectures were taught. They were easy to take notes during yet fast paced enough that topics were not overdone. The learning experience continued as we entered into the gaming portion of the semester. I truly enjoyed the fact that the gaming experience made the Revolutionary War more realistic and relatable. I have a better understanding of some of the stresses and frustrations that the leaders during this time were going through. The gaming experience allowed me to connect to history in a way I never had before.
I truly appreciated the amount of effort that went into matching students up with the right character. It made it so much easier to connect to a character who had a similar personality. When I was offered the role of Lord North initially, I was…show more content… The game exposed me to small scenarios that I would have had no knowledge of otherwise. Things like the Dunmore Proclamation, Jane McCrea murder, and sentencing of Wyandot Panther are situations I had never heard about before. I appreciated fact that these scenarios had their own individual consequences or benefits depending on the choice we made, but we were not particularly encouraged to decide one way of the other. We were forced to imagine our own consequences and benefits before making a decision. Sometimes what we expected were not what actually occurred. Just like in the actual Revolutionary War, the expected outcome of the war changed multiple times. There were times when it seemed that the Americans had the upper hand, and our victory was highly unlikely and vice versa. Most wars cannot be predicted in the beginning
