Haven't signed into your Scholastic account before?
Teachers, not yet a subscriber?
Subscribers receive access to the website and print magazine.
You are being redirecting to Scholastic's authentication page...
Announcements & Tutorials
Explore Primary Sources
How Students and Families Can Log In
1 min.
Setting Up Student View
Sharing Articles with Your Students
2 min.
Interactive Activities
4 min.
Sharing Videos with Students
Using Upfront with Educational Apps
5 min.
Join Our Facebook Group!
Exploring the Archives
Powerful Differentiation Tools
3 min.
World and U.S. Almanac & Atlas
Subscriber Only Resources
Access this article and hundreds more like it with a subscription to The New York TImes Upfront magazine.
Article Options
Presentation View
Staying Connected in a Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live as the world tries to battle the deadly disease. For many of us, that has meant finding creative ways to work, learn, and connect with each other while we’re stuck at home. Museums and zoos around the globe are offering free virtual tours to help students learn. Businesses are taking phone orders and offering curbside pickup to attract customers. Young people are throwing surprise Zoom parties for friends and classmates on their birthdays. And at the Saints Quirico and Giulitta church in Robbiano, Italy (above), parishioners are sending in selfies to ensure that the building still feels full during Masses delivered from an otherwise empty church. The photos are taped to the pews and Sunday services are livestreamed for all to watch. “People also want to be present as a community . . . even if they are each at home,” Father Giuseppe Corbari, who came up with the idea, told religious news site Crux. To learn more about how some teenagers in the U.S. are coping with the coronavirus, read their personal essays in the article Coronavirus Diaries.
Jim McMahon