THEME, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Theme:

• While frontier troops spent most of their time at routine duties, free moments gave the soldier an opportunity to relax

Goals:

• To discuss the various pastimes of the soldier
• To focus on one in depth for the purposes of the program

Objectives: After participating in this program, the students will be able to:

• List two recreational activities of the people of Fort Scott.
• Identify one popular song of the era.
• Name two musical instruments that were used in the 1840s.

Suggested Activities:

• Do a sing a long with the students.
• Have the students walk through some of the steps of the Virginia Reel.
• One popular play of the time that may have been performed was "Box and Cox" - a one act play produced in London in 1847. A possible activity is to perform part of this play for the students.