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A one or two-sentence summary of the unit, “Our Stories Make History,” and the project you created.
Explain how you organized your project and why.
Our stories make history is when we take our experiences in the pandemic so far and put them into a collective “story”. My project is how I handled it and to be honest, I don’t think I handled it well. it was hard with the new environment and my bad time management but I think its better now. I organized my project in a way where it starts with some information and a tutorial, makes you think it’s just a random thing, then throws you, your belongings, and your grades under the bus and makes you realize how much harder this online learning thing is than you expected.
How might this primary source be useful to a historian, or even future 6th graders, in the future? What might they learn about/from your experience?
it might be helpful because we are kids, and even though we are in 6th grade, kids are usually brutally honest when it comes to things we don’t really like. and sometimes historians need to find a source that is honest about how they feel about the situation and how it went for the person who had that experience. They might learn that its important to stay safe and be careful while also be social because being stuck in the house for too long is quite boring and if a pandemic happens again, they can find ways to entertain themselves by reading what we did to keep ourselves from dying of boredom.
What do you think went well for you in this unit? (What are you most proud of?)
I think what went well was the 6-word memoir because it was the most obvious one for me. there is an internet meme of a dog sitting at a table with a cup and the house they are in is burning and the dog says “This is fine.” and that is basically how I feel about this situation. Everything is going to H*** and all you can really do is sit there and watch because you’ve gone so far into it its just best to watch it all burndown.
What did you find challenging within this unit?
Staying positive. it was hard because I don’t get to talk to my friends very much anymore. This unit was especially hard because it’s not something I’m very interested in or experienced in. I’m good with history because I read a lot of history books but I don’t read books about how to survive not talking to your friends very much because I did not think I would have to use it. But here we are.