Assignment #3: Due May 1, 2020 Student Journal

During the Covid-19 Pandemic

CONTEXT FOR ENGLISH/READING CLASSROOM: Your unique daily observations recorded in a journal will serve as primary sources to yourself (to remember this time) and the people in the future. Be authentic. Be honest. Be reflective. Pay attention to the details. Cross Discipline: History, Science, Math

DUE DATE: Your written journal of ten daily observations is due by May 1, 2020.

GRADING: Students will be graded on neatness, thorough and thoughtful reflections, creative expression, and length. Journals will count as both homework (10 days), one best entry quiz grade, and one overall journal test grade.

STUDENT DIRECTIONS:

The Basics

Write a 10-day journal (1/2 page/day minimum—handwritten, less if typed). Your journals may be typed or written neatly. The entries should be numbered and clearly labeled by date and/or topic.

What

Your job is to chronicle (report) the changes you observe as your family, friends, community, the country, and the world respond to Covid19.

How

Each day, take notes of what you are seeing, reading, and hearing on the news, among your friends, within your family, and in your community. As a part of your written journal, feel free to add video, poetry, sketches, or other means of expression as you document your experience during this crisis.

Extra Help

The questions below are to guide your thinking. You do not need to respond to all of them. In fact, you are encouraged to ask and answer your own.

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

1. What did the government announce/declare/implement today?

o Does it make sense?

o Does it impact your life? Why or why not?

o How did your family respond?

2. What is open in your neighborhood? What is closed?

3. What does your neighborhood look like? Are people walking around?

4. How is today different from before the Pandemic for you, your family, your community, your church, your school, our nation, the world?

5. Do you see any examples of greed, philanthropy (giving), racism, privilege, and income inequality in any of the events that happened today? (Locally, at the state level, nationally, or the world?)

6. Did you see anything today that gave you hope? Anxiety? Fear? (In person, in the news,

or on social media?)

7. What does your family need today that you might not have, have enough of, or have no

ability to obtain?

8. What do you and your family have that others may need?

9. What new experiences or skills have you developed during this time at home?

10. What is a typical day like for you at home?

11. What heroic actions have you noticed during this time?

12. What have you been reading or writing on your own during this time?

13. How has your relationship with Christ grown during this crisis?

14. What message/advice would you give to others going through a crisis?

15. How have you handled all the changes? Your family? Your church? How has school been different?

16. What suggestions do you have? Ways to make life better, more fun, more meaningful, safer, more connections?