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Help your students tell their story.
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Learn about the project and hear from students and teachers who have participated.
“By sharing their stories, students got to know each other much better, and patterns of global migration took on a much more personal meaning.”
FAQs
Curious about whether to bring Your Story, Our Story to your community? Start here for the basics, and reach out to yourstory@tenement.org at any time if you don’t see your question answered.
The Curriculum
Middle School
Packet includes lesson plans for exploring the exhibit, interviewing a family member, and brainstorming, researching, and writing a story
High School
Packet includes lesson plans for exploring the exhibit, interviewing a family member, and brainstorming, researching, and writing a story.
College
Professors and instructors incorporate Your Story, Our Story into a range of undergraduate courses, including Asian-American History, American Studies, English Literature, Modern Jewish Literature, and Political Science, among others. Use our feature collections as a resource or assign students to contribute their own stories to the exhibit.
College Resource Packet contains suggestions for assignments and applications of Your Story, Our Story in a college course.