Sets forth the goals and format of a 12-week women's growth group that explored the issues and features common to the mother-daughter connection during the various stages of the lifecycle. Focuses on the ways in which poetry reading and writing activities were incorporated into group experiences. Describes several vignettes. (RS)

Describes a family history project for kindergarten students involving families where the children and/or family members write stories and share memories based on research questions asked by the children. Explains that children can share family artifacts. States that family was defined in a broad sense. (CMK)

Describes a four-part writing project that requires students to write about family memories and recent history, literature and folklore of their family heritage, migration patterns that brought their people to the United States, and their reflections on all of these areas. Shows how the project involves research, computer skills, and cooperation…