Espectáculo de la Cocina
El Proyecto de la Biografía
For this project, each person in the class had to choose a famous Latina/Hispanic person and learn about their life. The famous person I chose was Shakira. Following up to this project we had to learn the past tense. We learned about pretérito y el imperfecto conjugations and when to use them. You use the pretérito when something is definite and there was a specific event that happened at a specific time. For example, if you said "I owned a dog for a year," that would be pretérito but if you just said "I owned a dog," that would be imperfecto. You use the imperfecto for things that are more vague and not specific. After we had learned this we made a summary of our famous person's life in the past tense. We practiced speaking these summaries out loud while reading them. Then, we practiced speaking without reading. I liked learning about hispanic culture. Something that surprised me the most about Shakira is that she taught herself how to write songs in english.
Artist Statement:
This is an art project that I did in photoshop. It is an image of Shakira who was the person I was studying. In the background are words from her song Waka Waka.
This is an art project that I did in photoshop. It is an image of Shakira who was the person I was studying. In the background are words from her song Waka Waka.
el día de los muertos
The goal of this project was to write two "Calaveras" for day of the dead. A Calavera is a story that is supposed to make fun of the dead in order to make death a celebration instead of something to fear. After we wrote our stories we made a Calavera Artística which was an image of a skeleton from one of our Calaveras doing the thing mentioned in the story. For example, one of my Calaveras was about Nirvana and as they were head banging (or skull banging since they were dead in the story as with most Calaveras) their skulls flew off into the crowd but the rest of they skeleton continued to play music. So in my Artística, I made a skeleton holding a guitar with its head flying off into a crowd. The refinement process of the Calaveras was long. There were many drafts of each of the two. First, we wrote the stories and then we checked them for spelling errors and grammatical errors. It took many tries to get them to be perfect. My understanding of Mexican culture has changed throughout this project. The biggest thing that I learned is that they respect death, but do not fear it. That is what sets them apart from many cultures. I enjoyed learning about how Día De Los Muertos is a fun celebration that everyone enjoys.
Calavera #1: La Barista
Calavera #2: Nirvana
Calavera #2: Nirvana
El Raro que soy
El 23 de septiembre
Querido amigo,
Hola! Me llamo Cheyenne. Tengo quince anos. Soy de Atlanta, Georgia. Vivo en Durango, Colorado. Asisto la escuela de Animas High School. La cultura popular en mi pueblo es Miley Cyrus, difamación, y “Dubstep”. Soy rubia. Tengo ojos azule. Soy tanto extrovertida y introvertida. Me gusta tocar piano, nadar, y kickboxing. Escucho la música de Led Zeppelin, Glass Animals, y Arctic Monkeys. Yo tengo 20 animals. Hay 5 gatos, 3 perros, 6 caballos, 6 pollos. Mi familia es mi mamá, abuela, y tía. Mi tia y abuela vives en Atlanta, Georgia. Mi mejor amiga es Sabina. Quiero ser biologa marina cuando sea mayor. Mi email es [email protected]. Estoy contenta que os escribimos y que vamos a aprender cómo es tu vida en méxico.
Saludos, amigo por correspondencia.
Querido amigo,
Hola! Me llamo Cheyenne. Tengo quince anos. Soy de Atlanta, Georgia. Vivo en Durango, Colorado. Asisto la escuela de Animas High School. La cultura popular en mi pueblo es Miley Cyrus, difamación, y “Dubstep”. Soy rubia. Tengo ojos azule. Soy tanto extrovertida y introvertida. Me gusta tocar piano, nadar, y kickboxing. Escucho la música de Led Zeppelin, Glass Animals, y Arctic Monkeys. Yo tengo 20 animals. Hay 5 gatos, 3 perros, 6 caballos, 6 pollos. Mi familia es mi mamá, abuela, y tía. Mi tia y abuela vives en Atlanta, Georgia. Mi mejor amiga es Sabina. Quiero ser biologa marina cuando sea mayor. Mi email es [email protected]. Estoy contenta que os escribimos y que vamos a aprender cómo es tu vida en méxico.
Saludos, amigo por correspondencia.