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title: "#C4C15: Walk the Walk: Writing Family History & Culture with Students"
date: 2015-01-29
url: https://learningischange.com/2015/01/29/c4c15-walk-the-walk-writing-family-history-culture-with-students/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["#C4C15", "Blog"]
tags: []
---

# #C4C15: Walk the Walk: Writing Family History & Culture with Students

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It is so wonderful to see how an every day assignment can affect a student’s life and their understanding of themselves:

> Thank you so much for writing about this assignment and your approach to it. I think you are absolutely right about how much writing and talking there is to do in a project that is about discovering who you are and where you come from. There are so many ways of figuring out “your own context”, but a family tree is one of the easiest ways to contextualize yourself and try to plant roots in a specific time period. The past is so abstract for so many kids, but when they think about their great-grandparent’s generation, they can more easily learn about the history of that time period. While not every child is going to have a well researched family history, like the one from this email, every child does have a rich personal history. Each one is worth exploring, writing about, and talking through with others.

via [Walk the Walk: Writing Family History & Culture with Students](http://walkthewalkblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/writing-family-history-culture-with.html?showComment=1422540589088#c1240330810246649430).