Oral History
A few weeks ago, my class and I finished writing true picture books about immigrants that came to America. Mine was called,”From Russia to America.” It is about my chess teacher, who, as you may have noticed, is from Russia. We wrote it because we are studying immigration. This is what it looked like:
(Of course, not only my initials were on the actual copy.) We first recorded an interview with a tape recorder. Then we transcribed the interview by hand. My transcription was about eight pages. We wrote a lot of drafts and then drew skeches. My point is, we did a lot of work on the book.
Now we are studying forced immigration. A good example of that is slaves being brought back from western Africa. Half of them died on the journey, and were thrown overboard without a thought. They were all in chains for the whole ride. The ones that survived were sold at a slave market and treated very badly. My class recently read a book called Amistad Rising. It was about a person named Cinque who was taken from his home in Sierra Leone into slavery. I won’t tell you the rest or otherwise you might not read it and just take my word for it. Another book is called Henry’s Freedom Box, which is more about a true story, unlike Amistad Rising, which is a good story but only based on a true story.
That’ll be it for this post! I’ll make another soon. Here’s a sneak peak. The next is about a historical fiction book called How I became an American. There’s your sneak peak. You want more? Well too bad, you can’t have more! Bye!
January 27th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Wow. Great post! I see you are editing it and adding to it as we go on. And I’d say the Amistad book was fictionalized, but still a true story as much as Henry’s Freedom Box. The difference between the two was that in the Amistad book the author imagined how Cinque felt. I’ll have to ask the writer and/or editor of Henry’s Freedom Box if they consider it historical fiction or nonfiction as there is some imagining in that book too.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Nice job with your post! I enjoyed learning about the different kinds of immigration that you are studying. What was the most important thing that you learned from your chess teacher’s story?
February 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hello c16tk:
That is some detail that you gave about the cruelty on the ships from Africa (the chains and throwing people overboard without care when they died). Forced immigration must really have been awful at that time–and now you have a sense of this.
We always need to make sure we treat others fairly and with kindness.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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