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Connect With Someone You Love At #Thanksgiving, Sign Up For StoryCorps' #TheGreatListen

StoryCorps Thanksgiving

89.1 WEMU is pleased to partner with StoryCorps and to announce The Great Thanksgiving ListenOn Thanksgiving weekend, teachers and high school students across the country will use the StoryCorps App to preserve the voices and stories of an entire generation of Americans over a single holiday weekend, and you can become a part of this project!

The app will allow you to submit your story from anywhere in the country and also to record conversations with another person for archiving at the Library of Congress and on the new StoryCorps.me website.

For Educators:

Sign up to receive a special Teachers Toolkit and learn how to get started here.

Background information for Teachers

  • Lesson Planning Guide
  • Follow­Up Activities for your Students
  • Permission Slips
  • Worksheets
  • StoryCorps Great Questions

School districts in major U.S. cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Philadelphia have joined S toryCorps , the pioneering non­profit oral history project, in launching StoryCorps’ most ambitious initiative to date: t he G reat Thanksgiving Listen, which asks high school students across the U.S. to interview a grandparent or elder over the holiday weekend using the new free StoryCorps mobile app. Participants will upload their conversations—in which a generation of Americans will talk about who they are, what they’ve learned in life, and how they want to be remembered—to the archives in the Library of Congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYS88NOVW10

More information and additional resources:

The Great Thanksgiving Listen website

StoryCorps App website

The Great Thanksgiving Listen on Facebook

Follow @StoryCorps on Twitter

StoryCorps on Facebook

StoryCorps segments on NPR

Patrik is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and functions as the New Media/Social Media manager for 89.1 WEMU.