Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything (From the NYT Learning Network)

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Join this inspiring and touching conversation with New York Times Learning Network editor, Katherine Schulten. Former high school English teacher and literacy consultant, she shares the process and creators of the NYT recently released book, Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything.

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Get the book! Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything

Documenting Your Life in Extraordinary Times New York Times Learning Network Curriculum Unit with links to all the things: a step-by-step guide, mentor texts, writing prompts, the original call-out, and the 2020 winners.

Additional Articles:

• A NYT piece about a school system that adapted the project and how it became a cool community endeavor: "The Found Project': How We Built Community With the Coming of Age Unit
• A NYT piece from Katherine about teaching with the book: How to Teach With Art and Artifacts in our New Book, 'Coming of Age in 2020'

STUDENT CREDITS:

Intro Music: Here's to 2021 -- Thomas Kaufman, Lance Algabre, & Andrew Garcia, page 70

Violin Underscoring: original composition Until Tomorrow -- Tienne Yu, pages 20-21

"Borscht Recipe" -- Daniel Rykunov, page 66

"Trending in 2020" -- Piper Chase, page 71

"okay" -- Suhaylah Sirajul-Islam, page 62

"Letter to My Teacher" -- Andrew Badhwa, page 110

"Long Gone" - Brandon Yeo, pages 110-111

"Ashes to Ashes" -- Kaltun Mohamed, page 146

"A Farmer's Quarantine" -- Jadon Flinton, page 128

"Working During a Pandemic" -- Penelope Cardenas, page 126

"The Five Stages of Grief: Quarantine Bangs Edition" -- Anushka Chakravarthi, page 72

Self Expression - Abram Loya, pages 168-169

"Wait, Did I Just Join My Sister's Friend Group?" -- Schuyler Schmitt, page 93

"2020" -- Lauren Sanchez, Page 10

Outro Music: Pandemic Boyfriend -- Amelia Ross, pages104-105

The New York Times ran the contest again in 2021, and here were that year's winners.

This year's contest call-out: Coming of Age in 2022: Show Us What It's Like to Be a Teenager Now

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