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Write Rhode Island’s COVID-19 flash non-fiction program Our Lives Now, a co-creation of School One and local authors Hester Kaplan and Taylor Polites, invites young people in grades 7 through 12 in the state of Rhode Island to submit a 400-word…

This student work was the final assignment for a 6th Grade Social Studies Class at De La Salle Middle School. Students were required to create a minimum 3-5 slide presentation concerning a variety of topics about life in quarantine and online…

This student work is the result of an assignment in the 6th grade classrooms of the Barrington Middle School's Lime Cluster Students who were asked to complete a weekly journal documenting how COVID 19 was impacting their lives from March-June during…

A 7th grader's response to write a letter to your future self to be read a year from now

A detailed photo documentary by a 7th grade student with very interesting takes on common 2020 quarentine items and the meaning behind them

This slideshow was created for a social studies assignment given to help the De La Salle 8th grade students reflect on the unusual and historic situation brought about by the COVID 19 pandemic. One goal of the project was to give the students a way…

"Gilded Imagination" is about one of my favorite architects, Stanford White (a terribly flawed human being but a genius nevertheless). Few artists have had as great an impact on RI as White who designed countless gorgeous buildings throughout the…

I tried to make the June issue, one that summed up my four-years of confrontation with difficult times for humanity—still proceeding with the Ukraine war which I explore in a one-act play.

A creative writing and journal project. Although my tales are rather fanciful, I have still tried to express what my mind has gone through during the years of Covid-19. I was particularly interested in what estrangement does to us—and in particular…

I am interested in creating imaginative diversions and comments on society as it is evolving during this strange period of the Ukraine war as well as a culture war at home. This is indirectly referred to in this March issue.