Living History Project - Parent Letter

Living History:
An
Intergenerational
Philanthropy
Project

Dear Family,

Our class will soon be involved in a philanthropy project. We will be working in pairs to interview and write the “living history” of our “senior friends” at a retirement home. This project will involve:

• Sensitivity training by staff from a senior center or retirement home.
  
  
• Reading The Remembering Box by Eth Clifford and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox.
  
  
• Using our time and talents for the common good.
  
  
• Making a “remembering box” with partners to give to each senior friend on our first visit.
  
  
• Several visits to the senior center or retirement home.
  
  
• A visit to the local history museum with our senior friends to relive and relate to our shared local history.
  
  
• Writing the biography of our senior friend and our own autobiographies (for the author page). These books will be published in the computer lab.
  
  
• Illustrating and assembling our books.
  
  
• A “Celebration of Living History” event where we will present our books to our senior friends.