Cultural Heritage

Talk to your parents, grandparents, and/or other older relatives or
family friends to find out what they can tell you about your family’s
heritage or genealogy (a history of the ancestry or descent of a person
or family). Using whatever resources you can find, tell your family’s
cultural history in a PowerPoint presentation consisting of 7-10 slides.
Feel free to include pictures to illustrate your story, though take
into consideration file size when you add pictures. The format and
content for your presentation is outlined below:

Introduction (1 slide)
Give your presentation a title and include your name. This is a good
opportunity to include a family photo or other picture that
demonstrates your cultural heritage.

Family Structure (1 slide)
Describe your family make-up: number of people/ages, family heredity, relatives in other countries, etc.

Ethnicity (2-3 slides)
Discuss your family’s ethnic background. Some questions to consider:
What are the different ethnicities in your family that you and your
family members know of? How important are the issues of ethnicity and
ethnic heritage in your family? Do you observe particular customs
because of your ethnic heritage? Are there family stories involving
immigration to the U.S. or movement from one part of the U.S. to
another? Did your family and/or ethnic group encounter prejudice or
discrimination? If so, describe those encounters. If not, why not?

Gender Issues (1 slide)
Discuss how gender roles have been distributed in your family. Has
this changed over time or through generations? Is there an ethnic
component to the way gender roles have been defined in your family?

Economic and Social Class (1-3 slides)
Describe what social class you consider your family to belong to and
why. Has your family been upwardly or downwardly mobile during your
lifetime or across generations? What kinds of occupations have your
family members held? Address the way class status has affected your
family and whether this status is also affected by ethnicity. You can
also explore how your family’s educational achievements have changed
over time.

Conclusion (1 slide)
Discuss what you have learned from researching your family’s
heritage. In what way are the different elements you’ve explored (social
class, gender, and ethnicity) connected?

In each slide, list a few bullet points and use the Notes feature
(located below each slide) to type commentary on the points in your
bullets. Avoid trying to cram lots of text onto the slide itself.***Save your assignment as a Microsoft Powerpoint document.