3Generations.

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STERRE ADAMS, DANIQUE KLOMP, TOMAS VAN DER LAAN AND ARNO VAN
DER MEER.
Table of contents.

Action plan
page 2

Research plan
Interviews grandparents.
Page 3
Interviews teenagers.
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Interviews parents.
Page 19

Conclusion
page 27

What did go well and what was difficult.

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The worksheet 3 generations

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The action plan

Our group leader was Sterre Adams she made sure that everything was
done in time and made the decisions what everybody had to do. Tomas
van der Laan was the main e-journal editor he made the journal and tried
to upload it to the Weebly website. Arno van der Meer is the main
photographer he made the photos of the interviews. Danique Klomp
analyzed the 3 generations and draw a conclusion.
Working plan
We first decided to read everything carefully . Then we made a schedule.
We made datelines when everything should be finished . We decided to
start making the questions for the interviews. The second week everyone
had to do the interviews at home. We typed the interviews out on paper.
By the answers that were given to the questions we draw our conclusion
and made our journal.

1 week

Making the interview questions.

2 week

Do the interviews.

3 week

Do the interviews.

4 week

Finish all the interviews.

5 week

Type the interviews and make a

report.

6 week

Make the report.

7 week

Compare the interviews of india

and us.

8 week

Finish everything.

Research of the 3 generations.

Interviews with the grandparents
Name: Nelly Verleijsdonk
Age: 65
Grandmother of Danique.
How many people were there in your parents family?
We were with six people.
What was the profession of you father? And you mother?
My dad worked as a road worker. My mom was always at home. She took
care of the children. They had seven children and I was the youngest.
Where did you live with your parents family?
We lived in a small town.
Do you remember any historical facts or events?
No, I dont know. We lived at the countryside. At first we didnt had any tv.
Was you family different than other families in that time?
No, we were just a normal family. I had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. I was the
youngest of the family.
Did you had to work at a young age?
I could go to work when I was 16, but I wanted to learn.

Name: Ad van Hamond

Grandfather of Arno.
How many people were there in your parents family?
12 my mother,father,3 brothers,6 sisters and myself.
What is the profession of you father and mother?
My father worked in a weaving mill and my mother stayed at home.
Where do you live with your parents?
We lived in a villages close by Tilburg were my father worked in the center
of Noord-Brabant.
Do you remember any historical facts or events from when you
were young?
No.
How are the roles divided in your family?
My father work and we all helped in household.
Is your family different than other families in that time?
No.
What is important in your family?
That we all were healthy and we all helped.
Are there some special rules in your family?
No.
Did you need to work at a young ages?
No.
Are there subjects in your family were you dont talk about?
No
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Name: Alda Schonkeren

Grandmother of Tomas.
How many people are there in your parents family?
We were with 9 people in our family.i had 4 sisters, 2 brothers and my
daddy and mommy.
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
My mom didnt had a job because e with a family of 9 people she didnt
had time to do anything else than cooking, washing and cleaning. And in
that time it wasnt used for woman to have a job else than housewife. And
my father was someone who controlled the railway. Every time the train
needed to go in a other direction my father had to change the direction rail
to send them the good way.
Where do you live with your parents?
We lived in a pretty small house next to the railway because of the
profession of my father. I have lived there for my complete childhood till I
was 19 and went living on my own.
Do you remember any historical facts or events?
No, I dont.
How are the roles divided in your family?
My father worked and my mother looked after us. My brothers were
studying so they always were busy with that and I played with friends and
sometimes helped my mother in the kitchen or I helped cleaning.
Is your family different than other families?
I dont think my family was that different than others. The only thing was
that my father did his job at home so that wasnt usual in that time.
What is important in your family?

My parents gave a lot about studying. Not only it was important for my
brothers but also for me when I was at primary school.
Do you work at a young age?
No, I didnt. I think I was at the age of 27, it was a job were I had to do the
dishes at the hospital restaurant.
Are there subjects where you didnt talk about or talk about
much?
My parents didnt talk about money and the finance, it was not done. Not
that we had bad finance or something but they just didnt liked it. I dont
know exactly why.

Name: Jan Roosen

Grandfather of Sterre.
How many people were there in your parents family?
I have 2 brother and 5 sisters so we lived with 10 people in total.
How many people lived in the same house?
We lived all together.
What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My parents first had life-supplies store. Later they had snackbar.
Where did your live with your parents?
We lived in the village Soerendonk.
Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a
teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or
worldwide. Why has that event impressed you?
I cant really remember any.
How are the roles divided in your family ?
Me and my brother helped a lot in the snack bar. My mother worked in the
snack bar.
Is your family different than other families in that time?
I dont think so.

What was important in your family?

Being together was very important.
Are there some special rules in your family?
I cant remember any.
Did you had to work at a young age?
Yes in the snack bar of my mother.
Are there subjects in your family were you didnt talk about or
didnt talk about much?
We didnt talked about sexual topics and the death.

Interviews teenagers.
Name: Tomas van der Laan
Age: 14
How many people are there in your parents family?
There are five people in my family.
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
My father is programmer. And my mother works in a hospital.
Where do you live with your
parents?
We live in the town Weert.
Do you remember any historical
facts or events?
I cant remember but I know I was born
before 9\11.
How are the roles divided in your
family?
I am doing school and my parents are
serving me food and do my wash.
Is your family different than other
families?

I dont think we are different than other families

What is important in your family?
My parents think my school is important.
Are there some special rules in your family?
No not really we dont have strong rules.
Do you work at a young age?
No, I am still not working.
Are there subject were you didnt talk about?
No we are talking about everything.

Name: Sterre Adams

Age: 14
How many people are there in your parents family?
4 people
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
My father is a calculator. And my mother is ortition.
Where do you live with your parents?
We live in a small village
Do you remember any historical facts or events?
No, I dont.
How are the roles divided in your family?
My parents both work and me and my brother go to school.
Is your family different than other families?
No, I dont think so.
What is important in your family?
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Spent time with your family.

Are there some special rules in your family?
Not that I know.
Do you work at a young age?
I work with my grandparents. To earn some extra money.
Are there subject were you didnt talk about?
No, I can talk about everything.

Name: Arno van der Meer

Age: 13
How many people are there in your parents family?
We are with 5 people.
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
My father is a production leader. And my mother makes photographs.
Where do you live with your parents?
In the south of the Netherlands on the border of Belgium.
Do you remember any historical facts or
events?
I remember the outbreak of the Ebola virus.
How are the roles divided in your
family?
My father works. And my mother works
sometimes and looks after the children.
Is your family different than other
families?
I dont really think so.
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What is important in your family?

Its important in my family to help eachother.
Are there some special rules in your family?
No.
Do you work at a young age?
No.
Are there subject were you didnt talk about?
No.

Name: Danique Klomp

Age: 13
How many people are there in your parents family?
We are with 4 people.
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
My father is a construction builder and my mother is a swimming teacher.
Where do you live with your parents?
We live Weert, a town in the Netherlands.
Do you remember any historical facts or events?
No, I dont.
How are the roles divided in your family?
My parents work and me and my sister go to school.
Is your family different than other families?
No I dont think so. We are like a normal family.
What is important in your family?
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The feeling that you are a group and not alone. We stand up for eachother.
Are there some special rules in your family?
You need to clean everything up if you spill or make a mess.
Do you work at a young age?
No.
Are there subjects where you didnt talk about or talk about
much?
The illness of my grandfather and the cancer of my mom.

Me and my little nephew

Interviews with the parents.
Name: Miranda van den Berg.
Age: 42.
Mother of Danique
How many people are there in your parents family?
We were with 3 people in our family.
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
My father was a construction contractor. And my mother worked by a
cleaning service and as a volunteer.
Where do you live with your parents?
We lived at the country side.
Do you remember any historical facts or events?
The crowning of the queen and the carless Sunday.
How are the roles divided in your family?
At first my mother worked at a factory but later on she stayed at home
taking care of me. My father worked for a living.
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Is your family different than other families?

My father and mother divorced when I was at an age of 6. This wasnt
normal at that time.
What is important in your family?
Be there in all situations for each other.
Are there some special rules in your family?
No, were had the normal rules in the family.
Do you work at a young age?
No, I needed to go to school.
Are there subjects where you didnt talk about or talk about
much?
We didnt talk about the things outside the family and other family
members.

Danique Klomp and her family

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Name: Miranda Gabrils

Mother of Tomas
How many people are there in your parents family?
We were with 9 people in our family, I had 4 sisters, 2 brothers and my
daddy and mom. Our family was pretty crowded for such a small house we
were living in.
What is the profession of your father and your mother?
?
Where do you live with your parents?
I have lived in Weert whole my life. First I lived with both of my parents.
But my father was very mean and has hit me a lot. Because of this when I
was 10 my parents divorced. I was forced to live with my father till I was
12 because my mother had a depression. But when I was 12 I could
happily live with my mother again.
Do you remember any historical facts or events?
Yes, I think 9/11 was a pretty historical event in a bad way.
How are the roles divided in your family?
Both of my parents worked and my brothers studied.
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Is your family different than other families?

I dont know how other families were but I lived only with my mother.
What is important in your family?
My mother wasnt strict and wanted to give us a good childhood.
Do you work at a young age?
I dont know what is mend by young but I worked at an age of 17.
Are there subjects where you didnt talk about or talk about
much?
No, we could talk about everything I wanted.

Name: Nicole
Mother of Arno.
How many people were there in your parents family?
4 my father, mother sister and me .
What is the profession of you father
and mother?
My father was a tutor and my mother was a
chiropodist.
Where do you live with your parents?
We lived in Rijen a little villages close to
Tilburg.
Do you remember any historical facts
or events from when you were young.
No
How are the roles divided in your
family?
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My father worked my mother looked after the children.

Is your family different than other families in that time?
Yes we had a lot more freedom but because of that we also needed to help
in household.
What is important in your family?
That we all help in the household.
Are there some special rules in your family?
No
Do you have to work at a young ages?
No
Are there subjects in your family were you dont talk about?
No, there werent any.

Name: Peter Adams

Father of Sterre.
How many people were there in your parents family?
We were with 6 people. My parents and my 3 brothers.
How many people lived in the same house?
We lived with 6 people in the same house.
What was the profession of your father/ mother?
My mother worked at home and my father was forester.
Where did your live with your parents?
We lived in a little village near Eindhoven, Soerendonk.
Do you remember any historical fact/event when you were a
teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) or in India or in EU or
wordwide. Why has that event impressed you?
I dont really remember any historical facts.
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How are the roles divided in your family ?

Me and my brothers all helped a lot at home. My mom was a housewife
and my father worked.
Is your family different than other families in that time?
I dont think so.
What was important in your
family?
Religion was an important thing
in my family.
Are there some special rules
in your family?
I cant remember any.
Did you had to work at a
young age?
I worked at a young age but it was for some extra money.
Are there subjects in your family were you didnt talk about or
didnt talk about much?
No, we could talk about everything.

Conclusion 3 generations
There is a difference between the composition of the households when you
compare these with the families of past and present . The average family
now a days consists of an average of 4 or 5 people. The families were
bigger in the time of the grandparents and parents than now. Their
families had an average of 6-8 people and sometimes even 10 people.
The parents families were more or less 5-7 people.
Now a days we can talk about all topics in our home like school grates,
problems, sexuality and death. In the time of the grandparents the topics
of homosexuality were not for children they were bad to talk about and
death was a topic they didnt talk about. This was also because people
then were much more religious. In the parents family death was a topic
were you didnt talk about because it was a horrible thing those days.
Also we found out that our grandparents and parents helped a lot in the
house like cooking, washing, helping in the garden and on the farm. Now
this doesnt happen very often. We sometimes do the dishes and cleaning
our room. We have more technology to stay inside and do nothing but
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gaming and playing on our phones. My parents were already happy when
they had a phone in their home or a computer to use. Our grandparents
did things like working in a factory and in a shop. Some grandparents
could work on the farm of their parents. Also grandparents often worked to
make some extra money like harvesting and working in factories.
Most grandparents liked to go to school but just couldnt go. It wasnt
allowed for girls to join college. Girls were supposed to stay at home and
take care of the household. They needed to go to the household school. In
almost all grandparents and parents families the mother stayed at home
and looked after the children and cleaned the house. The father worked
and made sure there was enough money to live from. The children went to
school and the boys went to study in college and universities.

The thing that did go well and the things we had difficulty with.
Go well
-

We talked a lot about the work and made a timeschedule.

We had a well-planned plan.
We tried as much as possible to get the deathlines.

Difficulty
-

We had difficulty with having everything finished in time.

We live in various different places so we dont always have photos of
the interviews.
Not every lesson everybody worked hard and serious.
We didnt know what to ask to the Indian people and now we have
difficulties with filling the questions in.
We didnt understand the working of weebly.
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Project 3generations.
Worksheets
Why worksheets?
It helps the group leader and all group members to keep track on
what each team member has to do and has done. It will help the
editor to find necessary information.
You dont have to publish the worksheets
Worksheets Phase 1 Introduce your team and action plan.
Deadine October 15th
Worksheet Action plan
Roles of group members
Some tasks should be carried out by more group members and should
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be distributed equally
1. Group leaders (chairing meetings group memebers , monitoring own
group activities and deadlines, reading all articles on the eJournal and
informing group members about articles other students ..)
2. Editor e Journals: uploading pictures, lay-out articles
3. Interviewing. Investigating which persons can be interviewed, asking
permission, recording answers, analyzing )
4. Photographer. Scanning pictures, making pictures
5. Video-editor. Videos of group introduction, of interviews
6. Analyze outcomes of the interviews
7. Comparing the own outcomes with Indian/European counterparts
8. Writing text articles, checking English
Role

Who

Remarks/ task description

Group leader

Sterre Adams

Make sure that everything is done

on time.

Editor e-Journals

Tomas van der

Laan

Making the journals.

Main
photographer

Arno van der

Meer

Makes the fotos.

Main videoeditor

Sterre Adams

Makes the video and upload them

on
You Tube.

Interviewing

Danique Klomp,
Tomas van der
Laan, Sterre
Adams, Arno
van der Meer

all

Analyze
outcomes of the
interviews

Danique Klomp
and Arno van
der Meer

At least two group members

Comparing 3
generations

Sterre Adams
and Danique
Klomp

At least two group members

Writing text
articles

Tomas van der

Laan and Arno
van der Meer

At least two group members

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Comparing
articles of Indian
/ Eu students
Reflection

Danique Klomp,
Tomas van der
Laan, Sterre
Adams, Arno
van der Meer

all

Worksheet Phase 1. People to be interviewed

If the group consists of five group members, than 5 grandparents (or
people of the same age of your grandparents) and five parents (or people
of the same age of your parents) will be interviewed.
Important note: dont include in your research two members of the same
family (e.g. not your grandmother AND your father)
List of people to be interviewed

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Name /age//MF

Interviewer
(s)

Pictures,
video,
making
notes

Grandparen
t1

Alda Schonkeren

Tomas van
der Laan

Grandparen
t2

Ad van Hamond

Arno van der

Meer

yes

Grandparen
t3

Tjeu van den Berg

Danique
Klomp

yes

Grandparen
t4

Jan Roosen

Sterre Adams

Yes

Grandparen
t

Nelly Verleijsdonk

Danique
Klomp

yes

Parent 1

Miranda Gabrils

Tomas van
der Laan

Parent 2

Nicole van der Meer

Arno van der

Meer

yes

Parent 3

Miranda Klomp

Danique
Klomp

yes

Parent 4

Peter Adams

Sterre Adams

yes

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When
(deadlines
)

Worksheets Phase Research. Deadline end December

Format Interviews. Copy the format for each of the interviews

Topic: family life

Main question
General questions
Name age
M/F
1. How many people were there in your
parents family
How many people lived in the same
house
Nuclear of extented family?? Explain
2. What was the profession of your father/
mother?
3. Where did your live with your parents
(please add map/ Google map)
4. Do you remember any historical
fact/event when you were a teenager
(between 12 and 16 years old) or in India
or in EU or wordwide. Why has that event
impressed you?
Subquestions
1.

How are the roles divided in your family ?

2.
Is you family different than other families
in that time?

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3.

What was important in your family?

4.
Are there some special rules in your
family?

5.
Did you had to work at a young age?

6.

Are there subjects in your family were

you didnt talk about or didnt talk about
much?

7.

8.

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Format similarities/differences & conclusion

1. Answers of grandparents

Similarities

Differences

1 The mother stays at home.

takes care of the children. The
father is working. The children
help in the garden and with the
housework.

1 Some of the grandparents had to

work at a young age others not.

2 Some of the grandparents went

to a separated school. A different
school for boys and girls.

2 They didnt talk about sexual

topics and the death.
3 By some of the families was the
religion very important.
3 They all had a lot of siblings.

Conclusion answers grandparents

2. Answers of parents

Conclusion answers parents

3. Compare the answers of the grandparents and the parents

Similarities

Differences
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1 Religion was in some families

important.

2 if they had to work or not.

Some of the (grand)parents
worked but other not.

1 The amount of siblings.

2 There werent separated schools

any more.

3 They played a lot more outside.

3 By the parents the could talk
about everything and by the
grandparents not about everything.

Conclusion answers grandparents parents and the conclusion of the

main questions.

Our conclusion from the interview was that it was very different. One of
the difference was: how the roles were divided. By the grandparents
the mothers all stayed at home. Took care of the children and the
housework. By the parents some of the mothers worked. The size of the
families that was also a difference. Also a big difference was that the
grandparents couldnt talk about sexual topics and the death. That was
something you didnt discuss with children. In the time of the parents
were children they could talk about a lot more.

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Worksheets Phase Comparison & reflection . Deadline end January

a. Comparison
You are going to read two articles of Indian / EU counterparts
Are there generally spoken- any similarities between the situation of the
grandparents in India and in the Netherlands? Explain
Are there generally spoken- any similarities between the situation of the
parents in India and in the Netherlands? Explain
You are going to compare your outcomes with the research results of two
groups from Indian or EU and answer the question What are the main
similarities and differences on the subtopic
b. Reflection
What went well?/What would you do differently?

Article three. Name school (abbrev.). Name group. Comparison &

reflection
E.g. JNS. Gr. School life. Conclusion/Comparison

a. Comparison
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We read the articles of

1. School/group

2. School /group

Similarities between the situation of

the grandparents

Similarities between the situation of

the parents

2
2
3

b. Reflection
Research and group work. What went well/what would you do differently?
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What did you learn about the topic?

Worksheet. Video conference 1

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Preparing the videoconference

Each group will present itself shortly and reports on the research so far
Who will do what?

You might illustrate your short report with a PPT of max. 5 slides (to be
uploaded on the whiteboard)

Text of the report

They didnt finished the interviews so they couldnt answer the questions.

Questions to be asked to other students

How went the interviews?
What was your conclusion from the interviews?

Worksheet Final video conference

Topic:
Preparing the videoconference
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Each group reports on the research

Who will do what?

You might illustrate your short report with a PPT of max. 5 slides (to be
uploaded on the whiteboard)
Text of the report

You might illustrate your short report with a PPT of max. 5 slides (to be
uploaded on the whiteboard)

Questions to be asked to other students:

How went the interviews?
What was you conclusion from the interviews?

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