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Biographies: Family Life
Activity Overview
Template and Class Instructions
Activity Overview
A person’s family says a lot about who they are and why they have accomplished what they have. Their family life is often dependent on where they live or when they grew up. For this activity, students will create a storyboard about their person’s family, both past and present. The finished product can be used as the base for a larger biography project, and makes a great tool to organize information as they're researching!
Activity Overview
A person’s family says a lot about who they are and why they have accomplished what they have. Their family life is often dependent on where they live or when they grew up. For this activity, students will create a storyboard about their person’s family, both past and present. The finished product can be used as the base for a larger biography project, and makes a great tool to organize information as they're researching!
How to Place Information into Chronological Order
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Discuss Chronological Order with Students
Lead a discussion with students about time and how things happen in a certain order. When discussing family life in a biography, putting information in chronological order makes the most sense.
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Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change
References
Philip Abrams, Historical Sociology (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1982).
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Daniel Bertaux, Biography and Society (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981).
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Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame, ‘Families and Social Mobility’, paper delivered to XIth World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, 1986.
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Daniel Bertaux and Isabelle Bertaux-Wiame, ‘Le Patrimoine et sa lignée: transmissions et mobilité sociale sur cinq générations’, Life Stories/Récits de vie 4, 1988, pp. 8–26.
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C. Calhoun, ‘History and Sociology in Britain’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 29 (3), 1987, pp. 615–25.
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Norman Denzin, The Research Act: a theoretical introduction to sociological methods (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978).
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Glen H. Elder, Jr., Children of the Great Depression (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974).
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Glen H. Elder, Jr. (ed.), Life Course Dynamics. Trajectories and Transitions, 1968–80 (Ithaca, New York: Cornel
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