Keeping Up With
Quarantine By Lucy Robinson, Student Life Editor
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n the sixth day of Calendar,” Clark said. “That’s been school, senior Eleanor really helpful. I try to make sure my Frank woke up with a calendar directions are set up so that headache, a cough, and an absent student can follow along a runny nose. As her symptoms from home and understand the activworsened, she got a Covid-19 test ities. I’ve also been available to Zoom and it came back positive. Frank after school with students to provide watched as the assignments piled up instruction that’s new to them.” while quarantining and home sick Some assignments however aren’t over the next 10 days. easily translated online, and can “I’m in a Ceramics class and a mean missing important in-class acPainting class,” Frank said. “ tivities, which was the case for Ruffer Those were hard to catch up on during his quarantine.. because I didn’t have the materials “I really don’t want to get behind for the longest time. I had to cram because it’s a lot of work to catch hours worth of work into one hour. up and I’d rather get the work over And then Calculus, it was hard to with,” Ruffer said. “In a lot of my One of teacher Brenda Jalaie’s Canvas calendar pages. submitted by Jalaie just relearn the basics that everyone classes we were doing in class discusSeptember. already knew.” sions and stuff that I couldn’t participate in “Every day I was fighting the urge to get Gone are the days of Zooming into class anyways, so I just did what I could.” on my laptop and start playing video games while quarantined. Students are expected to For Jalaie’s art classes, where staying up instead of working,” Ruffer said. keep up with school work through Canvas to date on assignments is harder with all the Clark said it’s important to stay connector otherwise working with teachers to get materials needed, she created a “Quaraned and focused, even though it’s easy to slip tined Student” section at the bottom of her class materials. Art teacher Brenda Jalaie has noticed two into this mindset. Canvas calendar. “Don’t allow yourself to use quarantine types of quarantined students, those “who “Most students did not check into the as an excuse to take a day (or more) off are proactive and want to stay connected Calendar,” Jalaie said. “Some students were from work, unless you’re quarantined and and then students who aren’t.” out for whole projects.” legit-sick,” Clark said. “If the latter is the “I’ve had a few return and tell me they Jalaie gives quarantined students instruccase, you should rest up, communicate with tions and materials lists to “MacGyver” were too busy to look at the Calendar and teachers, and try to come to an arrangement projects at home. even see what we were doing in Drawing with them about your pile of missed work class,” Jalaie said. “They returned to look at me like I was For those students who are symptom-less once you’re feeling better.” an alien when I asked if they even started For those out sick it can be quite stress- working on something at home,” Jalaie said. but still at home, the best way to stay motiful knowing how much content is being vated and up to date, according to Christie Anyone can get contact-traced from missed. Clark, English teacher, is treating the day at lunch, a band class, or any other unmasked “I fell really behind really fast, because home like a school day. environment along with the possibility I was home so early on in the year,” Frank “When you’re supposed to be in a class, of actually getting sick. Staying ahead on said. “Especially since I was actually sick, I check the Canvas calendar and do the work school work is a way, according to Frank, to wasn’t just contact-traced. Trying to catch the class is doing,” Clark said. “If you feel combat the stress. back up and get all that work done took a genuinely lost about an assignment or new “That’s what I was planning on doing,” lot longer because there was no Zoom or concept being taught, then reach out to Frank said. “But I didn’t plan on getting anything.” your teacher via email immediately!” sick that early. I think just try to stay ahead Clark has set up her Canvas calendar to While at home it’s easy to slip into a while you are well, and then sort of have an accommodate quarantined students. vacation mindset and be distracted by the understanding with your teacher that when “My students have been very mindat-home environment. you’re not well, you’re going to fall behind Sam Ruffer, senior, was quarantined after ful about letting me know they’ve been a little bit.” quarantined and checking on classwork and his sister was showing symptoms in early homework, which are always posted on the
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