This is the tenth year that the Junior High School is hosting and exciting education project for eight grade students. During their English & Writing classes, each 8th grade student will be beginning, processing, and completing an Oral History Project.
What is the Oral History Project? Briefly, it is a project in which students interview and research interests and history of another person--for example, a community member or an elderly person. The results of this work can be assembled in many forms; but, for our purposes; it will be assembled in a "triptych"--a presentation board folded into three parts that holds the memoir, the feature article, portrait and artifacts created during the interview and research process. Students will then make a presentation of thier work not only to their classmates, but alos at an Oral History Fair (symposium) that will take place in May of 2011 and will be open to the public.
We have established a time line when certain deadlines are met.
September 17, 2010 | Parent Letter |
September 24, 2010 | Name of the Oral History Subject |
November 12, 2010 | Interview Questions |
January 3, 2011 | Interview with Subject Completed |
February 18, 2011 | Feature Article (final copy) |
March 11, 2011 | Portrait |
March 11, 2011 | Memoir (final copy) |
April 21, 2011 | Assembly of Triptych Completed |
May 4, 2011 | Oral History Fair |
This program is a superb chance for students to practice their wirting, speaking and listening goals. Students will be learning to construct memoirs and newspaper articles through their writing classes, and they will be learning interviewing skills and procedures in their English classes. With these skills in hand, they will use the Advisory Period to put the process into action.
