In this project, YOU will become the historian of your local area by collecting stories that thread the past to the present. Emphasis that students will complete the project on the www.scoilnet.ie/threads website

Why is this project important? Who does the project benefit? How? Link to Video as Stimulus

Old folklore tales and stories Task 1: In groups, brainstorm the history categories associated with your locality. Historical: Events/ monuments/ achievements/ inventions Changes in: Farming Transport Trade/ Business Environment Life during the Famine World War The Emergency Monument Farming Divide class into groups of four. Hand out the worksheet template to each group. Each member in the group is assigned one square to fill in. After completing their independent brainstorm. Members of group share their ideas with other members within the group. As a group, they decide on the best four topics. They write the best four topic names into the centre of the worksheet beside the plan icon. Famine Folklore Old folklore tales and stories

PDST (2015) Graphic Organisers and other Literacy, Numeracy and AfL Strategies in Teaching and Learning. Available at: http://www.pdst.ie/sites/default/files/PDST%20GRAPHIC%20ORGANISER%20ENG%20FINAL.pdf (Accessed: 16 December 2016).

Available Categories: Available Categories: Identify which Category your project idea fits into. Communication and Trade Folk Medicine Historical Tradition Historical Life Livelihood and Household Support Mythological Tradition Nature Oral Literature Popular Beliefs and Practice Religious Tradition Settlement and Dwellings Sports and Pastimes The Community Time Collection of Prayers Funny Story A Song An Old Story Bird Lore Bread Buying and Selling Churning Clothes Made Locally Em

Available Categories: Available Categories: Choose your five most favourite categories from the list below. Choose five of your least favourite categories from the list below. Collection of Prayers Funny Story A Song An Old Story Bird Lore Bread Buying and Selling Churning Clothes Made Locally Em Communication and Trade Folk Medicine Historical Tradition Historical Life Livelihood and Household Support Mythological Tradition Nature Oral Literature Popular Beliefs and Practice Religious Tradition Settlement and Dwellings Sports and Pastimes The Community Time

Task 2: Research local history projects already created in Ireland. Afterwards, complete the question & answer worksheet. Bibliography: 1 Muintir na Tire (2011) Digital Recollections 2013. Available at: http://www.digitalrecollections2013.com/ (Accessed: 16 December 2016). 2. Project, C.F. (no date) CFP memory map. Available at: http://www.ucc.ie/research/memorymap/ (Accessed: 16 December 2016 3. Fortune, M. (no date) My People - My Place. Available at: http://www.mypeoplemyplace.com/Home.html (Accessed: 16 December 2016). 4. Flaherty, E.O. (2016) Disused school houses - home page. Available at: https://endaoflaherty.wordpress.com/ (Accessed: 16 December 2016).

More Projects: Fortune, M. (no date) School Map Project. Available at: http://www.schoolmapproject.com/Home.html (Accessed: 16 December 2016). The men on the memorial - Google arts & culture (no date) Available at: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/fgIiWlT_fBCDJA (Accessed: 16 December 2016). ‘Beo’ Irish digital heritage archives’s albums (2016) Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishbeo/albums/ (Accessed: 16 December 2016).

From the QR Code research, which project inspires you and why? Will you complete the project independently or in groups? Why? What secondary source material can you base your project around? How will you ensure the material is accurate and reliable? A. What primary source material can you base your project around? If completing an interview, what steps will you need to carry out before the interview? How can you ensure you are the best historian that you can be? What steps will you need to take in completing the project? Advice students to read the PLAN section of the Threads website at www.scoilnet.ie/threads to help them answer some of these questions.

From the QR Code research, which project inspires you and why? Will you complete the project independently or in groups? Why? What secondary source material can you base your project around? How will you ensure the material is accurate and reliable? A. Books/ articles/ Irish times digital archive on Scoilnet/ JSTOR journals on Scoilnet/ Dictionary of Irish Biography on Scoilnet/ libraries. What primary source material can you base your project around? If completing an interview, what steps will you need to carry out before the interview? How can you ensure you are the best historian that you can be? What steps will you need to take in completing the project? Photos, letters, interviews with family members/ religious leaders/ school records/ local experts/ community group/ emblems in the home or community. Visit interviewee for undocumented visit on stories. Explain the project and ask for help. Plan out questions to ask from visit. Practice recordings in mock interview. Record and ask interviewee to sign release form. Record interviewer/interviewee name and date recorded. Record ages at time of videoing. Plan the project. Do the project. Submit the project on Threads website. www.scoilnet.ie/threads Sample Answers

Homework: Connect with the Dúchas School Collection of 1930’s? In 1937, the Folklore Commission encouraged schoolchildren to collect and document folklore and local history. Approximately 749,000 pages were collected by over 50,000 schoolchildren. 1. Using the www.dúchas.ie website, check if your school contributed to the Dúchas collection from 1937. 2. Ask family members will they contribute to your story for your schools Threads collection.