MRS. MACPHERSON Victorian Schoolma'am — Teaching School the Old Fashioned Way

Christine Pilgrim - as 'Mrs MacPherson' - gives a hands-on glimpse at history, imparting skills from penmanship to toy-making, as she draws enlightening comparisons between 19th and 21st Century values and explains the reasons behind those old Victorian rules.

She could visit your classroom and convert it into one from the past, with cloths, flags, slates, stilts, steel pens, school bell, Bible, dunce cap and cane (for illustrative, not practical purposes!), artifacts, bonnets and caps ... or she can give an overview of Victorian teaching styles to the whole school.

Classroom presentations also available -- Class limit 30
(broken down into either 3 ninety minutes, 2 half-days or 1 full day)

What students say:	I learned a lot. Good acting ... We liked standing up to talk. We liked answering in sentences. We liked the whole thing. Please come back!
What teachers say:		Great Pro-D Day! A fun way to learn Canadian history in an active way. Very professional... Thoroughly researched... Interesting collection of'props'... My class loved it!
What faculty says:	Funny - witty - thought provoking - informative... Reminds us there were reasons for some of those basics. Maybe some of those practices weren't so bad after all. It was all wonderful!
What conferences say:		Sensational! Inspirational!
What the press says:	Mrs MacPherson is a living, breathing slice of history and when she walks into a classroom, kids sit up and take notice! (Kelowna Capital News, Friday, March 2, 2001)