2.12 Oral Tradition in Your Family

Family Stories Assignment

Your job is to find elders in your family and ask them about the stories that were shared with them by their elders. Ask them to tell you about important life lessons they learned when they were your age. Talk to different relatives and see if you can find the oldest stories within your family circle.

Your assignment is to collect two family stories:

• The oldest story remembered
• Your favourite or second favourite of the stories you heard

You must record yourself saying at least one of them. It can be a video or audio recording. For the other stories, it is your choice. You can choose to record your relative telling you the story, you can record yourself retelling the other story or you can write it down. For each story, you will need to write a paragraph explaining your opinion of them. What important things did you learn about your family from these stories? How is this important to you personally? Why was your favourite story your favourite?

Submit your work to the Family Stories Assignment drop box.