1. Is there an event from history that fascinates you? Find as much research as you can on this event and try to bring a fresh point of view to this story to allow your audience to learn from the past in a way that may have been neglected in textbooks.
• There is an event that has always fascinated me: “The Diary of Anne Frank.” I didn’t know that she started writing from before that the whole family hide in the friend’s attic. She had the diary as a gift on her thirteen birthday when she was still in school.
2. Is there an infamous person from the past that has always interested you? Look up information and stories about this person and decide if a biographical story is the type you’d like to tell. Find the elements about this person’s life
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Did someone in your family achieve something against great odds? Remember this can be something known only to the family, such as keeping the family together during a crisis, or enduring the challenges of immigration to and surviving in a new country. Perhaps someone has survived a great illness, tragedy, or injustice and lived to tell about it?
• All of my grandparents passed away. But my grandma used to tell me how hard she had to work during war. My grandpa went to war and he was gone for seven years, because he got captured in Africa. My grandma had one little girl to care in a renting house. She was making bread and sell it. When my grandpa came back, she had brought the house where they lived all their life, until they died. They had 5 more children.
8. Ask someone in your family about important life lessons they have learned in their lifetime: usually these lessons have a good story behind them.
• My dad always says “stand your feet until the sheets cover you, or you’ll get cold.” He meant that we don’t need to spend more than we have. My dad is the youngest and only alive of his 5 siblings. His dad died when he was little. From a very young age he had to go with his brothers in the mountains to work and bring food in the house. He also survived to a terrible disease, “a malaria.” Now he is 77 years old, healthy and strong, and still goes in the mountains by himself for fun to pick vegetables and fruits. As young kids we couldn’t catch him for how fast he was to climb