What is a “Time Capsule”?

What is a “Time Capsule”? The goal of this assignment is to blend narrative writing,
research, and literary analysis to create a document that uses both secondary
sources and your own experience to tell the story of the “pandemic era.” You
will want to focus on issues that were most important to you and that you think
will also be important to readers in the future. In order to effectively capture
the era for your future reader, your time capsule will contain your own
first-hand experiences, secondary research sources that share important,
accurate information about the issues you choose to write about, and examples
of literature and popular culture that help make sense of the pandemic era.
Parts of the Assignment:
Audience: Your
reader is someone who opens our time capsule in 2121. They aren’t going to be
worried about things like you are right now. Therefore, you need to think
about: what might a reader in 2121 need to know about this era? What will they
already know? How will the distance of time change the audience’s perspective
on my topic?
Purpose: Your
purpose is to inform your reader about what made the pandemic era so
significant and what you want to make sure people in the future remember about
your life, and the world, of today.

Organization: You will organize your project once again around main ideas and
evidence that supports and explains those main ideas. Think about how much
guidance your reader might need to move through your topic. For instance, if
today you came across an essay written in 1921, how

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