“Living” Timeline

Create an intergenerational timeline using events from three different generations (grandparent/senior, parent/adult, and events from your own life). Include three important or significant events that happened during each person’s lifetime and plot on a timeline. (Be sure to emphasize that if the student does not have access to information about other generations in their families, they can interview neighbors, friends, or consider community resources like nursing homes.) Find and add at least one event on the timeline that connects or adds value to your intergenerational time. Then have students construct a personal narrative that explains how the intergenerational timeline explains who they are today.