Guide Entry to 25.05.03
COVID-19 and Influenza and How They Affect Our Society and Future is an educational unit that teaches the science of COVID-19 and Influenza and provides information backed by research. It is a unit that will have two parts addressing different needs in the classroom. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, students encountered a lot of misinformation on social media regarding what COVID-19 was and how to properly prevent transmission. There was also a lot of fear and misinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccines. Many people and students mistrusted the vaccine because of how fast it became available. The first part of this unit is meant to bring factual evidence to students and allow them to become critical thinkers. The second part of this unit to for students to process their thoughts and emotions regarding what happened to each of us personally during the pandemic. The students will be writing COVID memoirs about their positive and negative experiences during that time period. They will listen to example stories as told through podcasts like The Moth, Snap Judgment, as well as storytelling from StoryCorps. Students will then share each other’s stories with their peers as human books like in a Human Library Project.
Keywords: Respiratory Infectious Disease, COVID-19, Influenza, Memoir writing, Pandemic, Life Experiences, Human Library Project.
(Developed for Argumentative Literacy, grades 11-12, and English IV, grade 12; recommended for English III, grade 11; English IV, grade 12; Biology and Social Science, grades 11-12)
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