June is here and we’re rounding third. One last sprint for home… or are you too tired to sprint?
If we are exhausted, so too are our students. The ins and outs of in-person and online learning, the uncertainty and anxiety accompanying the year, the continuous learning curve as we invent new ways to do what we’ve always done: all have taken their toll.
Now that we’ve reached the home stretch, find ways for your students to document this pandemic school year. They are living history, after all.
Introduce the idea to your students and then give them choice in how to represent their year: in words (a poem, essay, or journal entries), in pictures, through numbers and statistics, through a video or slide deck, or a combination of these. What artifacts or music might accompany their creation? How might they document this unusual year? The possibilities are endless.
As Lin-Manuel Miranda has said, “History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.” Let your students tell theirs…