The Voices of the Street essay was interesting to the students: they really took off on the project. This was a pleasant surprise. In this assignment, students had to detail the daily life of a person or type of person for a historical period before 1946.
The student author whose paper is included interviewed her grandmother, who had been a nightclub singer in Chicago. I liked this work because it shows an oral history in a specific way, it used the readings for the course, and it presented a unique creative response from someone who is not used to doing history.
Student Essay: Voices of the Street (PDF) (HTML)