Bringing the Past to Life: Incorporating Genealogy into the High School Curriculum w/Michael Andrews

Name: Bringing the Past to Life: Incorporating Genealogy into the High School Curriculum w/Michael Andrews
Start: 2025-09-11T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-11T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Grace United Methodist Church of Naperville

Schedule

Thu Sep 11 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Grace United Methodist Church of Naperville | Naperville, IL

This presentation will describe my Humanities course—how it started, how it has evolved, and how we use family history as a vehicle to develop rigorous academic skills such as research, composition, project creation, and oral presentation. The course culminates with a documentary project that allows the students to tell the stories they have uncovered throughout the semester.
Michael Andrews has been an English teacher and soccer coach at Prospect High School since 2003. He has also been an avid genealogist for nearly two decades. At Prospect, he teaches a Humanities course for high school seniors that incorporates a semester-long family history project. The project’s goal is to allow students to explore their own personal histories and teach them to think, research, and create like actual historians.
FVGS meetings are free and open to the public.