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coercion. We watched video interviews of former hobos, read letters
and journal entries, listened to Woody Guthrie and other musicians
of the era, and even sat around campfires and practiced hopping
train cars (using tables, chairs, etc.). After they had immersed
themselves quite extensively in the content at hand, the students-
as-curators began the work of collaboratively designing their exhibit.
By the time they were done, they had filled our museum space (the
school's multipurpose room) with impactful, multimodal narrative
moments that came to life as the rest of the students in the school
visited. Bobby engineered a 3-D
audio environment, in which
listeners joined a young hobo as he jumped his first train with a
seasoned elder. Katie authored a series of diary entries and
photographs as if she were a young woman who had left home to
seek better fortunes out west. Andrea showcased fictional letters
she had written between a young boy and the family he left behind.
Randy wrote, directed, and starred in a film in which a transient
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