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Sample Assignments Heritage is a musical conceived and compiled by Ali Mandelbaum, drama and music teacher. Each year, the musical is written, created, and acted by students and is based on the past memories of their ancestors. Each student researches his/her family tree and chooses an ancestor to portray in the final project. They create original scenes, monologues, and songs building on what all these real characters have in common. Some of the past themes were:
Sample Web Projects The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley
has an extensive catalogue of oral histories. Center for Life Stories Preservation provides easy, creative
ways for the whole family to capture and share stories. Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archives is a collection
of oral histories taken from people who experienced the struggle
for civil rights in the state of Mississippi. Additionally there
are audio clips from some of the interviews. Doing Oral History is a project of St. Andrews
Episcopal School and has several hand outs and an archive of past
student projects. East Midlands Oral History Archives contains interesting
links to projects, created by students and adults, resulting from
the gathering of oral histories in their community. The Heritage Education Commission was developed for the
purpose of creating, initiating, and conducting programs and projects
which aid in the preservation or restoration of the cultural in
the region of Minnesota State University Moorhead. Their vast collection
includes a variety of categories from business to arts to law enforcement.
History Matters provides examples of projects that history
students, from high school to graduate school, have done on the
Internet. Projects range from oral histories or prose with Web links
to visual essays or exhibits. The Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project records and
preserves the voices of women visual artists in Iowa reflecting
on their lives and their artwork. Rocky Gap High School Oral History and Technology Project
is a unique blend of tradition and technology. Technology is the
lure to bring students to their community history through the stories
of its citizens. However, it is these stories that give content
for the technology to organize, manipulate, and publish. The process
gives a student sense of place and thus of himself. The purpose
of the site is to help teachers or community members initiate similar
projects. Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II records the
personal experiences of the men and women who served on the Home
Front and overseas. A Middle East History class at the American Community School, Beirut,
Lebanon undertook an oral history project that includes on-site
work in the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian Refugee Camps in
Beirut during the 2000-2001 academic year. In advance of their initial
visit, the students have been reading short pieces written by Palestinian
children living in the camps. Tank Books promotes the self-published book, "Tanks for
the Memories" by Aaron Elson. The book chronicles the fear, determination,
and humor of veterans of WWII tank battalions. The site contains
stories, interviews, poems, and audio of his collection. Wallpaper Project has interviewed more than 300 longtime
and lifelong residents of Auglaize County, generating an incomparable
body of information about 20th century history. Many stories from
the collections have been used in public programming–publications,
exhibits, lectures, and original oral history-based productions.
The site also includes examples of how to take histories to drama. Wayland High School History Project is an e-journal created
by fifty high school juniors from two United States history classes
during the Spring of 2001. Forty additional pupils refined and added
to the original site in the Spring of 2002. The students realized
that every senior citizen is a walking history book whose life is
a small but important component of their national experience. They
were aware of the reality that the men and women born in the 1910's
and the 1920's are rapidly leaving us and believe that their recollections
should be recorded for posterity. What Did You Do in the War Grandma? contains oral histories
of Rhode Island Women during World War II, written by students in
the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School. The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 contains
transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series of
interviews conducted by members of the Sophomore Class at SKHS.
The class interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections
of the year 1968. Their stories, which include references to the
Vietnam War, the struggle for civil rights, the assassinations of
Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy as well as many more personal
memories are a living history of one of the most tumultuous years
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