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Writing Prompt

Pandemic Choices: How Will School Reopen?

Theme History
Grades 6-8

In the Classroom Writing Prompts

Introduction

It is not everyday that you get to live through a piece of history that makes it into the books. The COVID-19 pandemic will be studied for many years to come in history classes. You must put yourself in the governor’s shoes and make the very tough decision on how learning will start the next school year. You must weigh all the options, the positives and the negatives of each scenario, and create an essay that illustrates your decision on how to reopen schools in the fall.

Learning Objectives

WALT use the writing process to create an essay about the reopening of schools after a pandemic.

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