Noblesville High School,
Indiana (USA)
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In April, we got into contact with the High School
of Noblesville. Noblesville is a town in in the US-state Indiana.
A teacher and her class asked us to make and mail an interview
about important events of the 20th century, e.g. Vietnam, the moonlanding
and the gulf war.
This is an excerpt of one of the first mails from Noblesville
High School.
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 Date sent: 11 Apr 2000 08:41:30
-0500
Moin, Klaus
.....
Noblesville High School
German Department
"Durch meine Augen/Through
My Eyes"
This year students of German
at Noblesville High School and students of English
at several schools in Germany are interviewing their
parents,grandparents, and community members about
their perceptions of various events of
the 20th Century that the students designate as historically,
culturally, or socially significant. NHS and the
German students exchange interviews via websites and
analyze
differences in perceptions and the historical and
cultural context of these experiences which may account
for
these differences.
German students will record
their interviews in German and American students in
English, so the language component will be primarily
comprehension. Students may also record their interviews
in audio or video format . These perceptions are unique
in the world and are a fleeting resource which our
students can capture before they are lost forever.
BASICALLY YOUR STUDENTS
INTERVIEW OLDER PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON
THESE EVENTS AND THEN SEND WHAT THEY LEARNED TO US
(IN GERMAN). AND INTERVIEW COULD DEAL WITH ONE TOPIC
OR SEVERAL TOPICS. IT DOESN'T MATTER. WE WILL ADD IT
TO OUR WEBPAGES AND DO ANY TRANSLATIONS NECESSARY.
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So we asked our parents or grandparents to tell us about some
of the topics and mailed the interviews back to Noblesville. After
that some of us exchanged some more (private) mails with the Indiana
students.
One year later (in April 2001) we, again, had a short e-mail exchange
with the same school, but different students.
Sir John Leman
High School, Beccles (UK)
This is a school in Beccles -
a small but beautiful old town in Suffolk, East Anglia (UK).
We had an e-mail exchange with
some students (aged about 14) who are/were in their first year
of learning German. They wrote us in German and we answered in
German, too. The exchange was rather short and there was - at
least - one misunderstanding. However, some colleagues at our
school and also their school hope that the contact will be revived
some day soon.
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