Part one of the unit centers students' experiences during the pandemic as the catalyst for taking on the oral history project. Students are given the space to express their feelings around school closings at different points during the pandemic along with their teacher and classmates before jumping into the purpose of the project they will be taking on during the rest of the unit.

This mini-lesson will focus on debriefing how students have felt at different points during the pandemic. Students will transform their responses to prompts and turn them into six-word memoirs. These memoirs can reflect feelings or events that led to those feelings.

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This mini-lesson will encourage students to consider how we cope with negative feelings or challenging times. Students will be introduced to the concept of the “toolbox of resilience” as a way of collecting strategies to cope and that during different points in history, people have had to find ways to cope with challenging situations.

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