Developed by Isabel Ortiz, Baruch College
This teaching material was developed as a result of the CUNY 1969 Teach-in & Retreat that took place in Summer 2024. The assignment asks students to research their family or community history and contextualize their personal lore within a collective inheritance of 1960s and ’70s-era protest in the United States.
The Teaching Material
Assignment type:
Lesson plan, Research assignment
Keywords:
Archive, Interview, Annotations, Reflection
Faculty Information
Isabel Ortiz (PhD) is a former adjunct lecturer in English at CUNY Baruch and City College. She is a fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, where she works at the intersection of American Studies, English, and Film and Media Studies.
Licensing Information
“What’s Your Personal Lore?” is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA. This license allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.
“What’s Your Personal Lore?” created by Isabel Ortiz is an open educational resource (OER).
