Oral History: Everyone is a primary source and all historical experience is important. Read the details in the prompt attached below regarding the assignment and how to conduct an oral history interview. Then, do an interview with an older family member, someone of your parents’ or grandparents’ generation (or, if an older family member is not available, another older member of your community or a family friend). Then write a typed, double-spaced, two-page essay that explores a family, community member or older family friend’s experience from their life. Note: You may write this essay in the first person, as in “On March 31, 2016, I interviewed my great-uncle J.D., who is 68.” “My family history reveals....” “I discovered that our community....” You will share these interviews and experiences in your facilitator groups on Wednesday, September 13. Bring your essay to class that day and be prepared to share both the information shared with you about your family member and the experience you had doing the interview. Oral History: Everyone is a primary source and all historical experience is important. Oral history provides a fuller, more accurate picture of the past by augmenting the information provided by other primary sources. Eyewitnesses to events contribute various viewpoints and perspectives that fill in the gaps in documented history, sometimes correcting or even contradicting the written record. Remember history is an interpretation of past events and of past experiences. Interviewers are able to ask questions left out of other records and to interview people whose stories have been untold or forgotten. At times, an interview may serve as the only source of information available about a certain place, event or person. In this unit, you will interview an older family member, community member or friend about a memorable experience in their life tied to a historic event of your interest or about their experience immigrating/migrating to California or some other place in the US if applicable. Format: Write a typed, double-spaced, two pages, 1” margins essay that explores a family, community member or older family friend’s experience from their life. Note: You may write this essay in the first person, as in “On March 31, 2016, I interviewed my great-uncle J.D., who is 68.” “My family history reveals....” “I discovered that our community....” Prompt: Read the details below regarding how to conduct an oral history interview. Then, do an interview with an older family member, someone of your parents’ or grandparents’ generation (or, if an older family member is not available, another older member of your community). During the interview, be sure to take copious notes or if the subject is willing record the interview (all smart phones have digital recorders). Based on what you learn in that interview tell the subject's story and ADDRESS all in the last few paragraphs of your essay: 1. What does your family’s (or community’s) history of immigra.