Archive for September 20th, 2007

Selected Quotes from the Interview Transcript

Here are the quotes Ms. Edinger selected from the transcript for us to use to create the picture book.

1. I grew up in the South of Mexico City. I was born there. I grew up there.
(Remember how Ms. Edinger redid this one? She changed it, with your help, to this: “I grew up in [...]

The Interview

Below is the transcription of that interview that Ms. Levithan and Ms. Kirsch did for us. We looked at it this morning and now you should know what those ellipses and brackets are all about! You can now do what we did — listen to the interview and look at the transcript [...]

 
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Prototype Oral History Immigrant Picture Book

As you know, our big fall project will be an oral history of someone who came to America from somewhere else. To help you know how to do your own we begin by doing one all together. Here is what we will be doing for this practice project:

Create good questions.
Do the interview.
Transcribe the [...]





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