Ask: Have you ever written a letter/sent an e-mail? Who did you send it to? What
did you write? Where and when did you write it? What did it look like?
Post on the board: a letter/correspondence, a memo, a copy of an e-mail, a list of
names with addresses and phone numbers
Then write on the board: Doctor's Office, School, Mayor's office, Business/Store
Then elicit answers about: 1) whether these kinds of records would be produced in
these places (; 2) What kind of letters, or what information, would be in letters,
memos, e-mails name lists created in these places ; 3) (to discuss important elements
in correspondence) How do we know who it's from, where was it sent from, when
was it sent? etc.
Alternatively, you can target 'their school' and get students to determine what kinds of
important records might be generated, and the different people generating them, the
different forms they take, who receives the records created, where they are kept, etc.
Catherine Yasui, M.A.
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
University of British Columbia
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