Year Ten Time Capsule/Oral History Assignment
18 06 2007The first purpose of this assignment is to capture how you live now so that you can bore your children with this information in years to come. The second purpose is to compare your life with that of a previous generation.
Step One
Write six open ended questions about life at 15 or 16 years of age. These are questions that provoke longer answers rather than just yes or no.
Step Two
Answer these questions yourself. Your answers should be at least ten lines long. Be as descriptive and interesting as you can manage.
Step Three
Find and interview someone at least twenty years older than you and ask them THESE SAME QUESTIONS. Their answer should be at least six lines long. You might need to prompt them for more information as you conduct the interview.
Step Four
Write it all up and hand it in.
This is due on Monday 25th June.





