As you read about characters who lived in critical moments in history, you are also right now living through a historical moment that you will remember for the rest of your lives. Someday, you will be telling your grandchildren about the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020.
In history, we’ve talked about the differences between primary and secondary sources.
Primary sources are documentation via written text, photos, video, or art that were made by someone who witnessed the event first-hand. Often these primary source documents take the form of letters, diaries, and journals, blogs.
This is a place where you can record diary entries about your life during covid-19 quarantine and create primary sources for use in the future. We are the next generation of change, and if nobody dictates what's actually happening inside homes right now, people if hundreds of years will never know.
