Personal Interview with Catherine Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 6
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Title
Personal Interview with Catherine Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 6
Description
In this audio clip, the interviewer asks the interviewee to comment on the specific textbook she used, and on the textbook format through which she and her classmates learned the novel in school. The interviewee answers that the textbook they used was extremely comprehensive, and that as a high school student, the textbook format helped in compartmentalizing lessons and coming to specific conclusions about the themes in the book.
Creator
Catherine Hartigan-Go
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Source
Personal conversation between Catherine Hartigan-Go and Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Publisher
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Date
November 20, 2020
Rights
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Catherine Hartigan-Go
Format
Audio file (mp3)
Language
English
Coverage
Manila, Philippines
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Audio file (mp3)
Duration
2 minutes 5 seconds
Transcription
Kaylee:
Since you learned it as a textbook, did you find that the adaptation of the novel into a textbook form was complete and thorough in telling the story, at the time? And explain why you thought so. And additionally, how do you think the textbook format contributed to your knowledge and understanding of the book at the time you were studying it in the high school?
Catherine:
[0:24] It's amazing I still have the textbook that I used <laughs>. It did help me to understand — it does help to know the details first, I guess. And so, in a textbook version, because they have these guide questions, you're already sort of led to start thinking in those terms — you know, in the lessons that the school will want you to know. So it helped me learn the purpose for the story. It didn't help me enjoy it as much — I mean, because it's a textbook. It's very thorough. Basically, they chopped up the book into chapters — I mean they’re in chapters anyway — but they chopped it up and put in study guides in between. And then aside from that, the teacher would say, ‘Okay, read five chapters for next week’ or something. And so you'd read five chapters, so it's all chopped up also that way. So, because we had the luxury of spending an entire school year studying this. We were able to go at a pace that we were able to discuss it in more detail I guess. So yeah, I think it was very good, as a learner, as a high school student, to learn it from a textbook like this.
Since you learned it as a textbook, did you find that the adaptation of the novel into a textbook form was complete and thorough in telling the story, at the time? And explain why you thought so. And additionally, how do you think the textbook format contributed to your knowledge and understanding of the book at the time you were studying it in the high school?
Catherine:
[0:24] It's amazing I still have the textbook that I used <laughs>. It did help me to understand — it does help to know the details first, I guess. And so, in a textbook version, because they have these guide questions, you're already sort of led to start thinking in those terms — you know, in the lessons that the school will want you to know. So it helped me learn the purpose for the story. It didn't help me enjoy it as much — I mean, because it's a textbook. It's very thorough. Basically, they chopped up the book into chapters — I mean they’re in chapters anyway — but they chopped it up and put in study guides in between. And then aside from that, the teacher would say, ‘Okay, read five chapters for next week’ or something. And so you'd read five chapters, so it's all chopped up also that way. So, because we had the luxury of spending an entire school year studying this. We were able to go at a pace that we were able to discuss it in more detail I guess. So yeah, I think it was very good, as a learner, as a high school student, to learn it from a textbook like this.
Interviewer
Kaylee Hartigan-Go
Interviewee
Catherine Hartigan-Go
Location
Manila, Philippines
Files
Citation
Catherine Hartigan-Go and Kaylee Hartigan-Go, “Personal Interview with Catherine Hartigan-Go, Audio Clip 6,” Spatial Humanities, accessed September 20, 2024, https://spatial-humanities.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/34363.