The Great Thanksgiving Listen hosted by StoryCorps is again for the seventh 12 months in a row. This annual occasion is meant to get folks to document audio tales with household and buddies. This 12 months there is likely to be much more distant recording than prior to now, however the aim of the challenge remains to be the identical. 

StoryCorps has at all times supplied supplies to assist college students and academics get entangled in The Great Thanksgiving Listen. Final 12 months the assets have expanded to incorporate a video overview of easy methods to use the StoryCorps Join platform to remotely document tales. If college students can document in-person, the StoryCorps cellular app remains to be out there as effectively. Sources for academics embody lesson plans, handouts, and even letters and a permission slip you could ship residence to assist clarify the challenge to oldsters.

Functions for Schooling

I like Thanksgiving and I like oral histories. I might have my college students take part in The Great Thanksgiving Listen as a strategy to have them collect native historical past tales within the context of non-public tales. Earlier than The Great Thanksgiving Listen got here alongside I did this sort of challenge with a social research class by having them document their dad and mom’ and grandparents’ tales about going to our native county truthful.