School Board: Littoral School Board cont'd

Program: Oral History

Goals: To provide the elders within a community with the opportunity to improve on the basic skills necessary to function in today's society; To provide the opportunity to improve their mental and physical well-being and to participate more in their community; To provide, through their memoirs, a part of the community heritage that could be used in the local history portion of the Elementary School curriculum

Target: Elders aged 65 and older

Description: The learning activities are taken from a general list of themes to explore. The themes chosen depend on the profile of the individual and are not limited to this list.

• Family tree (i.e. Grandparents, brothers and sisters)
• Parents and early family life (general activities indoors/outdoors, cleaning, special cooking days and Sundays)
• Chores/responsibilities as a child
• Homes (location, general description, heating, lighting, furniture, etc.)
• Clothes
• Food
• Hunting and fishing
• School
• Church and religion
• Fun and games
• Teenage life
• Transportation modes
• Communications (i.e. telegraph, telephone, radio, television, etc.)
• Christmas and other special times
• Old stories, old sayings and old health remedies
• Work (i.e. jobs and salary, etc.)
• Marriage and family life and how things have changed
• Photos (i.e. as prompts for memories, selection for document, etc.)