Result of reflections raised in my master’s thesis, this text intends to contribute to the understanding that it is a fundamental action in the process of preparing classes that aim to humanize the stages of teaching and learning historical knowledge, to make it jump to the eyes of the students what a personal story makes possible to know, and how much it can enable apprehensions of historical time (relations between past, present and future) that dialogue with the perspective of protagonism about their own life. By proposing to create a personal timeline, I understand that the history class provides an opportunity to assimilate historical time using, as a starting point, a personal story and enables the necessary opening to think about the historicity of each and the societies to which these students access through classes.