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Program and Instructional Objectives
Program Objectives
- To assist the teacher in implementing learning experiences based on oral history.
- To encourage students to be active historians and to collect, preserve, and interpret historical data.
- To expand the relationship between the school and the community.
- To invite community study and participation.
- To integrate the arts into the curriculum, both as a vehicle for student self-expression and communication and as primary source materials to be studied.
- To develop self-esteem and respect for the African-American experience.
The student should be able to:
- Recognize the various means for recording history.
- Sharpen observation and listening skills.
- Realize the importance of non-print evidence in studying history.
- Develop the ability to analyze and interpret historical data.
- Participate in historical inquiry, including the gathering, organizing, and analysis of facts and data.
- Utilize the imagination to understand the past through observation and participation in theatrical performances.
- Explore the way design can express attitudes and beliefs.
- Participate in oral history.
- Distinguish between fact and opinion.