Catch Up Post
I found I liked teaching during the pandemic because it forced me to cultivate connections with students via a technology medium. I chose poetry lessons that were quirky, fun, moving, and emotional. We all needed to process our emotions and what better way than poetry?! The students were amazing troopers and said they were glad to have something to focus on (since I'm hard core according to a few). Even when they returned to school in the fall, all masked up, on alternating day schedules with no movement from room to room (teachers moved that fall), we still had connection and forged new ones. It was hard but do-able. Those 7th and 8th grade students of March-May 2020 included my youngest son. We returned from the 8th grade pilgrimage to DC and NYC the week before the school and world shut down on March 13, 2020. We were told two weeks would be all that we needed off--we all know how that went. He did have an 8th grade promotion to high school event. I cannot call it a graduation.