Bringing the Past to Life: Incorporating Genealogy into the High School Curriculum w/Michael Andrews

This presentation will describe my Humanities course—how it started, how it has evolved, and how we use family history as a vehicle to develop rigorous academic skills such as research, composition, project creation, and oral presentation. The course culminates with a documentary project that allows the students to tell the stories they have uncovered throughout the semester.

Michael Andrews has been an English teacher and soccer coach at Prospect High School since 2003. He has also been an avid genealogist for nearly two decades. At Prospect, he teaches a Humanities course for high school seniors that incorporates a semester-long family history project. The project’s goal is to allow students to explore their own personal histories and teach them to think, research, and create like actual historians.

FVGS meetings are free and open to the public.

You may also like the following events from Fox Valley Genealogical Society:

• This October, 9th October, 07:00 pm, Tracing the Jacob B. Haas Family: Writing a Three-Generation Narrative by Heather Robb in Naperville
• This November, 13th November, 07:00 pm, Heirloom Show & Tell by FVGS Members and Guests in Naperville

Also check out other Workshops in Naperville, Meetups in Naperville.