Hot Biscuits and Shanty Boys: The Maine Folklife Center
Curriculum Guide
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| The Curriculum Guide provides step-by-step guides for
training students in the art of collecting oral histories. |
The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide
focuses on bringing the resources and skills of oral history and
folklife research to school teachers and students. This guide
will allow teachers to enliven Maine studiesn curricula by
personalizing history and creating new connections between
students and their communities.
The guide provides a variety of exercises
focused around turn-of-the-century work in the Maine lumberwoods,
to help students imagine what it must have really been like to
live and work "back then." Other sections include exercises
based upon traditional games discussed in the Maine Folklife
Center archives, and the relevance of folksongs to everyday
life. The Guide comes complete with a cassette or CD of
lumbering songs to be used in these exercises.
The
Curriculum Guide also provides teachers with step-by-step guides
for training their students in the methods of collecting oral
histories about their families and communities, including how to
set up an interview, how to conduct an interview, and how to
archive the materials generated.
The lesson plans in this Curriculum Guide allow teacher to
fulfill State of Maine Learning Results guidelines for a variety
of disciplines, not only social studies, and it includes a
section that explains this fulfillment.
Spiral bound, printed to order. Please
specify cassette or CD.
$19.95 plus sales tax.
Inspire your students to
collect oral history and folklore from their own communities!
Help students think about Maine's past in new ways!
Fulfill State of Maine Learning Results through innovative
ready-to-use lessons!
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