Diary writing
1. Make a diary and jot down the important happenings throughout the holidays in that diary. You may paste pictures and paint or draw to create an interesting entry. You are to have at least five entries of significance.
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Before the end of life as we knew it, Ady, an 8-year-old who lives in the Bay Area of San Francisco, read a biography of Anne Frank.
When she realized that she, too, was living through what would soon become history, Ady started keeping her own diary.
In one early entry, she recorded that the judging for her county’s science fair would be conducted over the phone, rather than in person. “Not ‘fair’!!” she wrote. “Har, har, very funny.”
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When Santa Cruz County enacted a shelter-in-place order on March 16, she again picked up her pen.
“I’m REALY scared!” she wrote. “Did you know this is getting so bad that I have to go my clarinet lessons on the cumputer!!”
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Ady calls her diary Ela, as in the first syllable of the word “elephant” (one of her favorite animals).
Ady calls her diary Ela, as in the first syllable of the word “elephant” (one of her favorite animals).Credit...Ady
As the coronavirus continues to spread and confine people largely to their homes, many are filling pages with their experiences of living through a pandemic. Their diaries are told in words and pictures: pantry inventories, window views, questions about the future, concerns about the present.
Taken together, the pages tell the story of an anxious, claustrophobic world on pause.
“You can say anything you want, no matter what, and nobody can judge you,” Ady said in a phone interview earlier this month, speaking about her diary. “No one says, ‘scaredy-cat.’”
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Before Spain went on lockdown, Ruth Manning sketched Miraflores de la Sierra, a town north of Madrid where her daughter has lived for the past 15 years.
Before Spain went on lockdown, Ruth Manning sketched Miraflores de la Sierra, a town north of Madrid where her daughter has lived for the past 15 years