75 Cents Per Hour - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #2

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Reviewed JAG competency and OSEU connections

R133 — Demonstrate understanding of earning, spending, and saving

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy Colombe recalls summer café work, hourly pay, and paying weekly rent while attending school. This supports R133 by inviting students to identify earning and spending in a concrete account.

Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.

In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of earning and independence? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you identify earning and spending in a concrete account? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0050; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBiENDezEiY; opening passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.

Q131 — Apply concepts related to living on your own in the “real world”

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy Colombe recalls summer café work, hourly pay, and paying weekly rent while attending school. This supports Q131 by inviting students to discuss work and housing responsibilities when living independently.

Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.

In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of earning and independence? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you discuss work and housing responsibilities when living independently? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

G59 — Prepare a short and long-term budget

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Reviewed teaching connection (Exploratory): Pearl Kennedy Colombe recalls summer café work, hourly pay, and paying weekly rent while attending school. This supports G59 by inviting students to use the account as a starting scenario for a separately taught budget. This is a classroom transfer opportunity; the interview does not provide a complete procedure for demonstrating this competency.

Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.

In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of earning and independence? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you use the account as a starting scenario for a separately taught budget? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

R134 — Develop a budget

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Reviewed teaching connection (Exploratory): Pearl Kennedy Colombe recalls summer café work, hourly pay, and paying weekly rent while attending school. This supports R134 by inviting students to practice a budget using additional teacher-supplied numbers. This is a classroom transfer opportunity; the interview does not provide a complete procedure for demonstrating this competency.

Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.

In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of earning and independence? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you practice a budget using additional teacher-supplied numbers? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

A3 — Identify desired lifestyle and relate to selected occupations

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy Colombe recalls summer café work, hourly pay, and paying weekly rent while attending school. This supports A3 by inviting students to consider how income and housing affect occupational choices.

Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.

In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of earning and independence? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you consider how income and housing affect occupational choices? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

Interview transcript

In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know. She wasreally good to us. She treated uslike we were her grandchildren. She would alwaystalk to us. And I went there until I graduated from high school. And then a year after high school, I stayed at her place. After my folks died and I graduated from high school, my aunt had my brothers and my younger sister. I worked until I was twenty-five. I got me a little house and moved in my brothers and sisters. So we were a family again. I took care of them, but it wasn’t a job, ya know. It wasn’t a job. They were my family. That’s how we got along. I finished raising them…sent them to school and everything. Howard graduated from high school…and I just continued all my life looking out for them…welcome them in the home. When I got married, my husband…one of my girls got jealous of my brothers…”How come they come here?” And they said, “She’s the only mother they know.” So, they didn’t ask any questions. They were always welcome…and my sister Tina.