

Course Objectives

Students will:
- Demonstrate improved communication skills: listening,
speaking, reading, writing
- Gain competence in basic interviewing skills
- Develop a written product based on an oral interview
- Compare common events from the past with current everyday
events
- Gain an appreciation for differences between life
today and life in the past
- Develop a deeper understanding of the changes that
have occurred in the community or family life
- Develop closer connections to family and community
members
- Create multimedia products incorporating written,
visual and auditory elements

(More specific objectives can be developed
at each local site, depending upon the skills and needs of the students.
In Hawaii, the Content and Performance Standards
specify skills and knowledge base to be developed)

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