https://news.virginia.edu/content/write-it-down-historian-suggests-keeping-record-life-during-pandemic

This article is written by Anne Bromely from the University of Virginia who reported on the great idea that the University of Virginia's Professor Herbert Tico Braun of the Corcoran History Department assigned to his students. Braun believes students should be journaling about the changes that have occurred in their daily lives as a result of the pandemic. He believes that this assignment will connect students to the world. He places great value in writing it down! Students should be recording their life experiences because the pandemic has caused us to adjust our lives. Our day to day changes has become our new normal. We are living history book waiting to happen. He believes that the personal accounts will become primary resources that we will one day looked back on as people, in years to come, begin reading about this pandemic just as we have read about Yellow Fever, Cholera, Smallpox, etc. Students can focus their experiences around being quarantine, learning how to wash our hands, grocery shopping, social distancing, remote learning, day to day news, learning new ways to communicate, innovations that have emerged, global impact, etc. He encourages teachers to have students write diaries, record themselves, use pictures or art, etc. These creative student-author resources will become primary resources that others will examine and can enjoy!

Mrs. Payton-Roby thought that this would be a great idea for students. Teaching an array of resources, in her location and access lessons, she believes that primary resources are the most underutilized source from the resources she teaches. She believes that this is a wonderful way to get students to understand what a primary resource is and the value they have in understanding our past. Learning while doing will allow students to create, innovate and master using this resource. One day students will be able to look back into history and find our students' first-hand accounts of what happened during this globally challenging time.

According to American Library Association, "...primary sources are the evidence of history, original records or objects created by participants or observers at the time historical events occurred or even well after events, as in memoirs and oral histories. Primary sources may include but are not limited to: letters, manuscripts, diaries, journals, newspapers, maps, speeches, interviews, documents produced by government agencies, photographs, audio or video recordings, born-digital items (e.g. emails), research data, and objects or artifacts (such as works of art or ancient roads, buildings, tools, and weapons). These sources serve as the raw materials historians use to interpret and analyze the past."

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Link to Fever 1793 narration:

Chapter 1: https://youtu.be/I0H2ocvX73c

Chapter 2: https://youtu.be/3VqFruSo0KU

Add her to your playlist to listen to the entire as they become available!

Students may not be familiar with epidemics, pandemics, and endemics and probably think this the first time in our country's history that we have been confronted by such devastation. The reality is that there have been many life-threatening epidemics throughout history. The book Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Andersen, recounts the life of a child living through an epidemic in 1793, which consumed more than 100-150 thousand lives. The epidemic was called Yellow Fever. In the efforts of the author to practice social distancing, she decided to read her book online via Youtube. Join her in this reading adventure!

According to the CDC:

Pandemic is when a disease affect us and spreads all across many countries infecting and consuming the lives of a large population of people, like the Corona Virus, Spanish Flu, Influenza, etc

Epidemic is when a disease is concentrated in one area and the number of individuals affected rises abnormally like the Zika Virus, H1N1, Ebola, etc

Endemic is when a disease remains present in a location due to the environment like Malaria caused by mosquitoes

"Those who were lucky enough to avoid infection had to deal with the public health ordinances to restrain the spread of the disease. The public health departments distributed gauze masks to be worn in public. Stores could not hold sales, funerals were limited to 15 minutes. Some towns required a signed certificate to enter and railroads would not accept passengers without them. Those who ignored the flu ordinances had to pay steep fines enforced by extra officers (Deseret News). Bodies piled up as the massive deaths of the epidemic ensued. Besides the lack of health care workers and medical supplies, there was a shortage of coffins, morticians and gravediggers (Knox)."

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

" The 1918 Influenza Pandemic ". Virus.Stanford.Edu, 2020, https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/.

Accessed 1 Apr 2020.

Hilda Churchill born in 1911, in the UK, is the oldest survivor of the Spanish Flu. She had witnessed her one-year-old baby sister being taking away in a small casket. She recalls her father falling out in the street. Five hundred million people were affected worldwide. She expressed how fast and pervasive the virus was and how they didn't have planes as we do today, but the virus managed to get around! Read more below!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/29/spanish-flu-survivor-dies-from-coronavirus-aged-108

Go to Britannica, Gale Pages, Library of Congress, etc to find newspapers

"Newspaper Ads From The 1918 Flu Pandemic Show That Some Things Never Change". Time,

2020, https://time.com/5810695/spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus-ads/. Accessed 1

Apr 2020.

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XabLWhAAACEAnUH2

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/

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Diversity of Resources: Databases, Primary Resources, Periodicals, Journal Articles, Magazines, Web Resources, Fiction, etc

Resource Evaluation: CRAPP or RADCAB

Location & Access of Information: Search strategies, Credible Search Engines, Use of Directories, Diversity of Resources, Online Resources, etc

Technology Integration: Web 2.0 (Prezi, Powtoons, Glogster, Animoto, Sway, EdPuzzle, Screencasify, Movie Maker, etc; Google Platform (Docs, Hangout, Sheets, Drive, Apps, Extensions, Ad-ons, etc), Microsoft Suite-(Publisher, Powerpoint, Word); Word Clouds, Timelines, Social Media, etc

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