Biography Book

This project has students reaching out to the elderly of our community. 6th Grade students teamed with a local care facility to write life stories and diagram family trees, for some of the "tribal elders" as we affectionately called them. First students befriended them during a shared craft activity. On subsequent visits, students built a rapport with individuals and began collecting and writing down personal biographies. This was later put through the writing process and a small book was made. The book has a picture of the elder on the cover and a short feature about the student inside. Several copies of the book were made, to be given to the elder for their own family and friends and one for the student to keep.