DOMINICK GADAMOWITZ JOINS THE C.C.C. An Introduction by Alan Singer, Hofstra University Oral history is a way to actively involve students in thinking about and understanding history and our world today. It allows teachers to bring the cultural and historical experiences of our students and their families directly into the classroom and the learning process. Students can conduct oral histories as individuals or in cooperative learning teams. Students can interview relatives, neighbors, family friends, members of senior citizens centers, participants in church or veterans' programs and older school staff members. A goal of an oral history project is an open-ended interview using questions to encourage people to tell stories about their past. At Franklin K. Lane and Edward R. Murrow High Schools in Brooklyn, New York, student interviews with their families and friends were collected into magazines. The magazines were used in classrooms throughout the school to teach about the Great Depression, World War 2, the Civil Rights movement the problems of workers in modern America, and the hopes and problems confronting immigrants and ethnic minorities. For middle school or high social studies students: Read this interview that a high school student conducted with his grandfather. List three questions that you think Robert Gadamowitz asked his grandfather. Suggest three additional questions you would like to ask Dominick Gadamowitz.