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Bells Continued to Ring

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Title (Dublin Core)

Bells Continued to Ring

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Description (Dublin Core)

When the pandemic began, I was finishing up my last few months of student teaching. My mornings included talking to students about their day and weekend plans they had; however, once the pandemic started that changed drastically. The students were gone and the silence began. Highschools are customarily, a loud and busy environment; yet, overnight the students were gone and there was nothing at school but silence. The halls were empty, my classroom was empty, the whole school was empty apart from a small group of staff. For the rest of the year, I would go to school and sit in my classroom alone in almost complete silence. No face to face interaction with students or even other staff. As a teacher, this was taxing on my mental health. From one day to the next my entire occupation had been flipped upside down. I never saw my students again. I still wonder what became of them. The one thing that sticks in my mind from that period is the sound of dismissal bells at school. For some reason the bells continued to ring even though there were no students. Everyday when that first hour bell would ring I would remember that no students were coming. This was a reminder everyday that the world had changed.
I recorded the sound of dismissal bells at my highschool. Two years after the pandemic started, this sound still reminds me of teaching during the pandemic.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Alex French

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text
audio

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Education--K12
English Health & Wellness

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

sensory
hearing
silence
students
teacher
high school

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Arizona State University
HST 643
Sensory History

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/21/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/31/2022
10/06/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/21/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on August 21, 2022 by Alex French using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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