INFORMATION AND RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS
It is our hope that teachers around the world will find these diary entries and related prompts to be useful for their students. We deliberately decided not to frame the prompts as formal lessons so that they are accessible and easy to adapt to whatever you might be doing right now.
If you wish to assign these prompts to your students, we hope you will encourage them to upload their work as contributions to our archive. There is a permission form that they must sign each time they contribute.
Below, we’ve provided some links to resources that we hope will be helpful.
VIDEOS
Dispatches from Quarantine: An Interview with Alexandra Zapruder
BOOKS
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq by Zlata Filipovic (Author, Editor) and Melanie Challenger (Editor)
We Were Young and at War: The first-hand story of young lives lived and lost in World War Two by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis
Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, Second Edition, by Alexandra Zapruder
ARTICLES ABOUT DIARIES
"The Searing, Continued Relevance of Diaries From a Genocide" by Alexandra Zapruder (Smithsonian Magazine, November 2018)
“The Lost Diaries of War,” by Nina Siegal and Josephine Sedgewick (The New York Times, April 15, 2020)
“What We Can Learn from 1918 Influenza Diaries,” by Mielan Solly (SmithsonianMag.com, April 13, 2020)
ARTICLES ABOUT DOCUMENTING CORONAVIRUS
“Why You Should Start a Coronavirus Diary,” by Jen A. Miller (The New York Times, April 13, 2020)
“12 Ideas for Writing Through the Pandemic With The New York Times” by Natalie Proulx Storycorps
The Coronavirus Museum: How Historians are Documenting the Pandemic
“In Spain, Photographers Come Together To Tell The Full Story Of The Pandemic” by Laura Beltrán Villamizar on NPR.org
