Curatorial writing

This activity teaches curatorial writing and oral history at once. The student gathers stories from whānau, then writes them in the formal voice of a museum label. That tonal shift is the curriculum content. Family stories told over a kitchen table become small public texts. Students often write too much. Hold them to two or three sentences. The constraint forces them to choose what matters. The display step turns a writing exercise into an exhibition. Three labelled objects is a museum. Students see their family history as something worth showing.