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Collected Item: “Quarantine Journal Assignment at Andover Summer”

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Quarantine Journal Assignment at Andover Summer

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

course assignment

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

While students in the 2021 on-campus summer program at Phillips Academy Andover quarantined on campus for one week, I asked those enrolled in my "Medicine and Society" course to keep a journal in which they reflected on how their daily experiences were shaped by the program's COVID protocols. Those protocols included universal masking (indoors and outdoors), social distancing, grab-and-go food service, regular PCR testing, and more. For their JOTPY stories, some students chose to upload their entire journals, while others summarized their reflections over the week. On the day we uploaded our stories, the quarantine period came to end, and the students could enjoy a bit more social freedoms on and off campus.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#PhillipsAcademyAndover, #andoversummer, #quarantine

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Tanya Sheehan

Give this story a date.

2021-07-10
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