Parent - Child Biography ("Mom and Me")

Because ABE classes contain a variety of family configurations, with learners ranging from single young adults to grandparents, this topic should be introduced with an open-ended discussion of how learners can get children or others in their families to write something which can be a memento. For young single adults, this topic can be extended to include their parents, siblings, or friends. In this latter group, the process and activities of interviewing another person of their choice is the same as it was for the parent or grandparent-child relationship.

Goals

• create a parent-child made book
• encourage parent-child discussion about writing

Implementation

• Prepare an individual question sheet for parent and child (caregiver, friend) interview, based on group discussion of topics, questions of interest.
• Interview a child (or person) of choice.
• After the interview, the adult writes the story (child may illustrate).
• Parent and child do artwork together for the cover.

Evaluation

• parent journal to describe impressions of working with child (or person of choice)
• booklets on display for dayeare