Family Oral Traditions

What is an oral history/tradition?

Share a fun oral history from your family with the class!

It's important to pass along family stories and traditions.  You are going to listen to a story about your family and transcribe (write it down) for posterity.  Here's the assignment:

In many families, stories are handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth.  Ask someone in your family to tell you a story about a relative or ancestor.  This story should be of importance to your family and be related to you being here today.  Examples:  how your grandparents met, why your family settled in your hometown, or why someone came to the United States in the first place. 

Rewrite the story in your own words.  Try to remember as much as you can about what you heard.   You are recording your family's oral history.  You may publish your story using the computer or your neatest handwriting (in black ink).  This project will be due Thursday, February 28.