What does resilience look like during the pandemic? How can art be a vehicle to aid our emotional and psychological resilience? For this theme, students were asked to engage in how people, institutions, communities, and societies come together and recover from this global challenge. Students engaged in the changing narrative of the “hero” as put forth by the media as well as considered what kind of monument or memorial should be created for the victims of Covid-19.
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Pandemic Diaries
Sally Ashton
Through a series of teacher-led, generative, timed, in-class writing prompts, students will be guided toward the creation of a short narrative that reflects on losses and insights they’ve experienced during the pandemic by (1) considering the time before “now,” (2) the time when disruption was experienced most intensely, and (3) what is experienced differently in the indefinite and ever-morphing “new now.”
