Context for a History Classroom: Your unique daily observations will serve as primary sources to the people in the future. Be authentic. Be honest. Be reflective. Pay attention to the details.

Note: This assignment was created for a high school history class, but it could be used across content areas and adapted across grade levels. We hope you are inspired to make a copy and revise it for your context.

Student Directions: Your job is to chronicle the changes you observe as your community, the country, and the world respond to Covid19. Each day, take note of what you are seeing and hearing on the news, among your friends, within your family, and in your community. Feel free to use video, written language, poetry, sketches, or other means of expression as you document your experience during this global pandemic. 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 your own. When we return to school, you will be asked to turn in your journal of daily observations.

Guiding Questions:

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

• Does it make sense?
• Does it impact your life? Why or why not?
• 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 yesterday for you, your family, our nation, the world?
5. Do you see any examples of 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 access to acquire?

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