Project Notes: Conducting Oral History in the Secondary Classroom

Project Notes is a detailed narrative curriculum series in which SPI teachers articulate the processes of teaching for publication. Dr. Robert Coles, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard says of the first book in the series, “Here is an important and stirring effort to connect the moral and social imagination of young people to their storytelling imaginations and capabilities—and to do so with the encouragement of their teachers. Here is human inwardness given the classroom’s sanctioned enablement—students become their own teachers, eager to tell others what they have observed and considered (their narrative growth thereby tendered, become an instrument of heightened awareness and reflection in others—their teachers as well as their fellow students)."