What the Kids Said!
What is Oral History?

By the Fourth Grade Class at Morgan Elementary, 2002

Oral History is when a person like in there 60's tell you what life was like when they were children.

Oral History is speaking to people about their past.

Oral History is about when people was litter and what happen when they was litter.

Oral History is a person that tells their history.

Oral History is when people tell about their lives.

Oral History is history you speak out loud.

Oral History is a type of history that you here from someone, kind of like memories from the past.

Oral History is someone's memories of when they were younger.

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