First Trimester Schedule
| Date | Tasks | Plan |
| August 25 | Introducing Project to Teachers | Review Data from Fall 2021 – Spring 2023
Re-Develop Project with the ELA Instructor. |
| September 1 | Introduce Project to Students | Read “The Project”
Go over “The Schedule” with students |
| September 8 | Review Data on Communities of Care. | Slides “Experiencing a Community of Care” and “Losing Trusted Adults”
Potential In-Class Writing Assignment: How do you feel S2 could be better at cultivating a community of care? |
| September 22 | Review Data on Patterns of Anxiety (Academic & COVID-19) | Slides “Patterns of Anxiety,” “Academic Anxieties,” “Becoming Mature Learners,” “Standardized Test Anxieties,” “Seeking Help from Staff,” “COVID-Related Anxieties.”
Potential In-Class Writing Assignment: Can you relate to any of your peers’ academic or health-related anxieties? Was it surprising to hear how widespread these anxieties were? |
| September 29 | Review Data on Patterns of Anxiety (Social) | Slides “Initial Difficulty Making Friends,” “Fear of Losing Friends,” “Loving Self,” “Desires to be Fierce”
Potential In-Class Writing Assignment: Which anxiety was most surprising to you and why? Which was least surprising? |
| October 6 | Review Data on Why This Project Matters | Slides “Why This Project Matters,” “I’m Not Alone,” “Student Want to Be Heard,” “Youth Leadership Makes Project Possible,” and “The Praxis of Oral History”
Potential In-Class Writing Assignment: What’s something last year’s project got right? Something last year’s project got wrong? |
| October 13 | Develop Oral History Project | Go Over How to Conduct Oral History Project: “The Assignment“
Review the importance of ethics and confidentiality. |
| October 20 | Rework Oral History Script as Class | Go over the list of questions with the students currently titled “Bad Draft.” Identify those questions you like; those you want to change and questions you want to add that you feel are missing. Collectively alter the script as a class. |
| October 27 | Rework Oral History Project in Class | Have students submit names of at least three people they would be willing to interview/be interviewed by.
Offer alternative assignments (3–5-page essays based on other ELA work) for those students not wanting to conduct interviews, or be interviewed. |
| November 10 | Announce Partners from 8th Grade | Assign partnerships for oral history projects.
Re-review ethics and confidentiality. Practice recording on phones. |
| November 17 | Interviews Due | Submit interviews during class time to samuel.finesurrey@guttman.cuny.edu dropbox account. Make sure to label the interviews with the interviewee’s first and last name.
Potential Writing Assignment: How could we improve this work for Trimester III? |
| December 1 | Reflections | Create space for class reflections on what went well and what did not go well. |
Second & Third Trimesters
| December-March | Processing Data | Dr. Finesurrey and the team of alumni will organize the data from the Fall interviews.
Dr. Finesurrey and alumni will work with a group of 8th-grade researchers on a presentation for Oral History of the Mid-Atlantic Region Conference |
| March | Going Over Data with Teachers | Review Processed Data From Fall 2023
Re-Develop Project with ELA Instructor |
| April | Review Data with Students | Have students choose groups to analyze quotes and create presentations on key questions.
Youth research team present at the Oral History of the Mid-Atlantic Region Conference. |
| May | Presenting and Writing | SEL group presentations. |
| June | Redesigning and Executing Oral History | Redesign oral history scrip for Spring 2024.
Conduct Oral Histories. |
| July | Writing Camp/Processing Spring Interviews | Dr. Finesurrey and the team of alumni will organize the data from the Spring interviews.
A smaller group of 8th grade researchers will help write an article/create an academic presentation based on their experience.
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