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Oral History in the Classroom
Oral history can be used in numerous ways both inside and outside the regular classroom to meet the Delaware Department of Education's content standards in Social Studies and English Language Arts for grades Kindergarten through twelve.
Citizenship education is the driving objective behind the Social Studies standards. Oral history is a highly effective tool for teaching children how individuals, past and present, in communities everywhere, have interacted with others and exercised their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Students can learn first hand how every person-including them--has a role in shaping history.
This section of First State Stories provides a primer on conducting oral histories, suggests activities, projects and lessons using oral history, divided by grade cluster (K - 3, 4 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12), may be incorporated by educators into their curriculum. Since all grade levels share the same standards, some ideas may be simplified or extended to apply to other age groups.
For Social Studies, the core disciplines of civics, economics, geography and history each contain four standards that apply to each grade cluster. For Language Arts, the standards pertaining to writing, reading and research directly connect to the process of oral history along with the written, audio and visual end products.
The text of the Delaware Social Studies Content Standards can be found at: http://www.doe.k12.de.us/programs/pcs/ss.shtml
Follow this link to the English Language Arts Content Standards: http://www.doe.k12.de.us/programs/pcs/english.shtml
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