May 11, 2020
Dear LREI Community,
As always, I hope this note finds you and your family well. Please do not hesitate to be in touch if there is any way that LREI can offer support.
There are many events scheduled for the next few weeks. Links to these events will be posted on the LREI@home Community Events calendar. Visit LREI Connect and click on Resources.
Mark your calendars for the 2020 College Panel, a time for lower and middle school families to hear about LREI’s college guidance process from members of the senior class and from Carey Socol, Co-Director of College Guidance. This conversation will not focus on the more specific questions that tend to be on the minds of high school families. Thursday, May 21, 10 a.m.
The invitation below comes from LREI with the support of LREI’s volunteer archivist, trustee, and sixth grade mom Yukie Ohta. Please read it and we strongly encourage your whole family to participate.
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LREI@home Quarantine Time Capsule
We are living through a historic moment. People will be studying and learning about this moment in time for years to come.
You have the power to shape history by contributing to the LREI@home Quarantine Time Capsule, a digital record of how we, as a community and as individuals, lived through the coronavirus pandemic.
The contents of this time capsule will answer these questions:
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How can we help the students of the future get as close as possible to the experiences we are having now?
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What is your everyday life like under quarantine?
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What extraordinary things happened to you or to others around you that would not have during ordinary times?
We are asking for submissions from all members of our community – students, faculty, parents, alumni, and friends.
You may, but are not required to, create something new for this time capsule. You can simply take a photo of what is on your desk or what you see outside your window, copy a recent poem you wrote, or share your go-to dinner recipe as your submission. Or you can make something that reflects your current experience in any way.
Your submissions can be, but are not limited to:
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Photographs
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Video
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Artwork (drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, etc.)
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Writing (journal, poem, story, etc.)
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Letter to your future self or to future LREI students
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Audio (song, Moth-type stories, etc.)
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Oral history interview (on your phone or via StoryCorps connect)
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Map (of your house, of your new, smaller world)
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Recipe (what is your quarantine comfort food?)
Important: Please make sure to include your name, the date, your grade or relationship to LREI, and a caption that explains your submission in as much detail as possible.
Your submissions will be kept in the LREI archives so that future students and other historians can learn about what happened during LREI@home.
If your submission will be an interview, you might want to consider using StoryCorps Connect, a remote recording App through which you can include your interview in the StoryCorps archive.
We also see this as an opportunity to connect as a community in the current moment. If you are comfortable with your submission(s) being shared in an online gallery visible to the LREI community, please indicate so when submitting.
Email submissions and questions to: timecapsule@lrei.org