StoryCorps is teaming up with teachers for its national assignment "The Great Thanksgiving Listen," seeking to double its archive with students' interviews of their family members. StoryCorps founder David Isay explains the scope of the project and how to participate.
Lauren Links, a teacher at Berkeley Carroll school in Brooklyn, or explains how she uses StoryCorps in the classroom and how she hopes this assignment,like all history lessons, fosters empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) in her students.
And Garrett Collins, or a student at Berkeley Carroll,talks approximately how he came to know approximately a deep love of learning that runs in his family by interviewing his grandmother.→ Record your own Thanksgiving interview: follow the directions on the StoryCorps site for how to interview a family member this weekend using your phone.
Source: wnyc.org