Curated teaching resource
Hot Seating: interrogate Mrs. Jones or Roger in character
By Dorothy Heathcote tradition / Drama Resource (David Farmer)
- Collection
- Instructional Guides
- Subject
- English Language Arts
- Grades
- Grades 6-10
- Format
- lesson-page
- Curriculum
- Cross-curricular
- Publisher or host
- dramaresource.com
Why this resource is included
One student or teacher sits in role as a character and answers questions from the class. For Thank You M’am: teacher-as-Mrs-Jones answers why she brought Roger home instead of calling the police; student-as-Roger answers what he was thinking when he tried to snatch the purse. In bookwormburrows deployment: this IS the NPC interrogation mechanic. The DM plays Mrs. Jones in the hot seat; bookworms ask questions; answers reveal character depth that feeds into the campaign’s moral landscape. Austin ISD published a peer-reviewed case study on hot seating in ELA (2020). Ontario OSSD: Oral Communication strand B1.