Resources
Lesson Plan: Artifact Interview (Grades 6-12)
This single lesson plan guides students through an oral history interview about an artifact or object of personal or cultural significance.
Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • English Language Learners • Storytelling Best Practices
Lesson Plan: Artifact Interview (Grades 3-5)
This lesson plan guides elementary school students through an oral history interview about an artifact or object of personal significance.
Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • English Language Learners • Storytelling Best Practices
Lesson Plan: Getting To Know You Interview
This single lesson plan supports students to have relationship-building conversations in preparation for successful oral history interviews.
Lesson Plan: Family, Culture, and Traditions Interview
This single lesson plan prepares students for an oral history interview with a family or community member about culture and traditions.
Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • English Language Learners • Storytelling Best Practices
Oral History Resource Guide For English Language Learners
Voice of Witness’s education program develops curriculum that directly supports students in migrant, multilingual, and English Language Learner communities. This guide contains activities, handouts, and reading strategies to make oral history accessible to students at all language levels.
Cultural and Personal Identity • Education • English Language Learners • Migration & Displacement • Storytelling Best Practices
Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia Curriculum
These lessons explore oral histories that examine the complexities of why people leave, why people stay, and and the systems that interact with individual choice. The curriculum is rooted in an Ethnic Studies framework that questions dominant narratives and promotes critical thinking around not only the Appalachian region, but migration and displacement in general.
Say It Forward: A Guide to Social Justice Storytelling
Say It Forward is a DIY oral history guide that outlines best practices for social justice storytelling and community-based projects.
Ethical Storytelling Principles
VOW’s ethical storytelling principles are grounded in values of respect, dignity, empathy, transparency, collaboration, and equity. These principles are relevant to many forms of community-based storytelling and programs.
