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What We Can Learn From Oral History

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Students read oral history accounts of the 1930s and 1940s from "The Greatest Generation" books. They discuss how the common good and civil society was strengthed by these men and what they did for America. They research another time period and analyze how the common good and society was strengthed just as it was in the 30s and 40s.

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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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