Teachers and students are using the Six-Word Memoir project to help students cope with all the changes.
One student in Texas wrote: "Headline News: COVID hacked sixth grade."
Teachers and parents have taken the assignment to heart, too, offering messages of despair, hope and humor.
Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher, Six-Word Memoir founder and author Larry Smith and local contributors discuss the new book, "A Terrible, Horrible, No Good Year: Hundreds of Stories of the Pandemic."
Guests:
Larry Smith, author, creator of the Six-Word Memoirs project
Kelly Croasmun, memoir contributor
Ann Miller-Tobin, memoir contributor
Sara Abou Rached, memoir contributor