The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History

This guide, which begins with the aspiration to allow “those who are ignored, marginalized, and stripped of their humanity to finally tell their stories,” is a valuable collection of teaching strategies to help students work with the extraordinary oral testimonies included in the Voice of Witness books.

These include Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice, Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, and Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated.

Teachers will find the lessons in this teacher’s guide to be a rich source of provocations to engage with human rights dramas throughout the world. [Description by Rethinking Schools.]

Published by Voice of Witness.