Carla Cooke and Tracey Salamondra are the recipients of the 2022 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.
They designed a cross-curricular, community-based project for their grade eleven students to investigate the histories of their rural community. In the first semester, their eight students worked closely with the nearby Elgin & District Historical Museum to learn about the process of creating history, including research skills, oral history, working with evidence and artifacts, and using the historical thinking concepts. In the second semester, students learned about the craft of storytelling. Selecting their story topics, each student wrote three historical narratives that included original research and oral history interviews.
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