### Language Through the Arts
#### Social Studies

### Do you know your family's history?

## My Family Tree

### Step 1:
Before you start building your family tree, it is essential to interview your grandparents or older relatives and ask them about your family ancestors. Here are some topics you can ask them about:

a. Places where your family has lived and your family's religious history
b. Schools they went to
c. Their father, mother, brothers, and sisters
d. Your paternal grandfather and grandmother
e. Your maternal grandfather and grandmother
f. Great-grandparents and extended family
g. Any immigration in the family

If you don't want to use your own family, you can research information on a famous or fictional family and do a tree for them.

### Step 2:
After gathering information about your family, review the following abbreviations and forms to explain connections on a family tree:

- b. = Born
- bap. = Baptized
- m. = Married
- d. = Dead
- ad. = Adopted
- c. = Circa
- bd. = Buried
- dv. = Divorced

### Step 3:
Try to find some family photos you can use to help illustrate your tree. If you don't have access to photos, clip pictures from a newspaper or magazine that resemble your family members. Illustrate your tree on poster board or any other material you like. Be sure to decorate it like a tree.

### Step 4:
Share your family tree with the class.