Title: Learning about immigration through oral history
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.
Subjects: Computer network resources, Emigration and immigration, History, Oral history, Sources, Study and teaching (Secondary)
Places: United States