Learning about immigration through oral history
By: Barbara Wysocki and Frances Jacobson.
Contributors: Harris, Frances Jacobson.; Library of Congress.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: History -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Oral history -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Emigration and immigration -- History -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Computer network resources -- Study and teaching (Secondary); United States -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Teacher lesson plan.
Description: Comprehensive lesson plan designed for eighth grade students to study oral history in order to appreciate historiography. Students identify immigrants in their community and compare their stories with those researched in the thirties as reflected in "American Life Histories, 1936-1940" and other American Memory collections. Students engage in visual and information literacy exercises to gain an understanding of how to identify and interpret primary historical sources.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on July 17, 2003; last updated Sept. 26, 2002).
Part of the American Memory Learning Page online resource offered by the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.