The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City
Today you are going to begin transcribing your oral history interview! Here are some tips to make it easy:
Write on ONE side of the paper.
Skip lines between each question and each answer. This will make it much easier to read.
Use script or print — whatever is easiest for you and easiest to read.
Number the pages [...]
Today we looked at last year’s class’s oral history questions and revised them for this year’s interviews.
Here you can see the old questions and our revisions:
Oral History Interview Questions
Edinger House
Fall 2008
Old Country
Where did you come from and when?
What was the reason you came to America?
What was your old country like? (customs, climate, food, childhood/special memories)
Did [...]
Congratulations on finishing your first post! Be sure to check for comments; Ms. Nickels wrote one on every finished post. (See if you can figure out without asking a teacher where your comments are.)
Now for your second post. I would like you to write a good paragraph describing your immigration oral history [...]
This should be a well-crafted paragraph or two. It needs to begin with a topic sentence, include several additional sentences, and end with a sentence that makes the reader want to read more.
Some possible information to include:
A really great opening/lead/hook.
Name of the person you interviewed.
Where they came from.
Summary of the main steps involved in [...]
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 [...]
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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