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Historical Thinking
Final Project

Suggested Level:  Grades 11, 12, and undergraduate

Suggested Time: 1 to 3 hours

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Description of Final Project:

This task can be done in the classroom, or assigned as a take-home activity. In small groups, the students are encouraged to include their new learnings, creative endeavours and research.

Final Project

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-Split your class into four (or eight) groups and assign one interviewee to each group.

-Ask each group to create a timeline of life events using the audio and transcripts, as well as biographies to piece together the chronologies of their lives.

-This activity can be assigned as a project to do outside of class hours and to be presented to the class at a future date. Creative endeavours are encouraged.

-For extra points, students are welcome to trace the itinerary of their subject on a map of the world from just after WWII (when these women started their migration to Canada). 

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If you would like us to feature a project from your class on this page, please email us pictures and a short description of your presentation to gcs@uwinnipeg.ca

©2023 by German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg

Created by Sofia Bach and Claudia Dueck, German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg

Interviews conducted by Dr. Alexander Freund in 1993 and archived at the Oral History Centre 

Generously funded by the Waterloo Centre of German Studies and German-Canadian Studies (UWinnipeg)

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