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En esta unidad, los estudiantes han aprendindo cómo introducirse con los verbos ser o llamarse, usar el verbo tener para expresar su edad y cuántos hermanos y mascotas ellos tienen, las nacionalidades y el verbo hablar para expresar los idiomas que ellos hablan en la casa.

Aquí están las presentaciónes de los estudiantes en español 1: https://flipgrid.com/aa5fc082

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tR0NkCU_RSdOaJmyR5NvmVQ27gDfZhHEwmmuxqVZgtI/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eXE8Gah6_y3zCFXqATGOdpF22LqyNWOx6G8mVHYs7Q4/edit?usp=sharing

Poster link - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XaU-h1CzmcX8Rt0gG43pTHErRAfnDlCU2bovnyh7j2g/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WFdVQGXFcJd95AsqrydIXJ541FTwDB0ajuL8airvPso/edit?usp=sharing

My Digital Poster: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vMqarcKG7FmWKOtGlDPVl-dwzhYq5ZdC7d5fKbqjfxw/edit#slide=id.ga66feb6c95_1_0

This year was the worst yea I’ve ever been alive. On my website, I talk about how music influenced my life this year and how it helped me escape. The transition from Middle school to high school all while doing it virtually is what I also talk about and how the year 2020 has affected my mental health. The artist I chose the mention: BTS, SZA, and Ariana grande have helped me tremendously through these times and I’m happy I get to share this project with you.

https://raegan.carrd.co/

Do you have a clue on how I feel? 2020 is one of the worst things that could have happened to me or any teenager. 2020 was supposed to be the year that I was supposed to find my true self, others too. Some of us were 8th graders going to 9th grade, some of us were 12th graders going to college or just trying to make a lot of money. STOP, can you hear me!! Can you hear us!!

2020 has me broken, I don’t even feel as though I’m myself. Im am currently a 9th grader, yes I was one of those students starting a new school virtually. It’s hard. People say everything is going to be ok but it’s not, the world is different now. Our “President” has put the United States in shock. The police that are supposed to be protecting us, as people but no they are killing people like me. Yes, Im black and after all the deaths (George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Walter Wallace Jr. etc.) George Floyd died because I white officer had his knee in his neck!! Breonna Taylor was shot in her own house because the police didn’t want to announce themselves. Walter Wallace Jr. was shot and killed in Philly by a white police man because they were scared, why did they have to use the gun? If they have tasers. I’m scared to be in my black skin. All the protests that turn into looting. The COIVID-19, QUARANTINE!! Are you sure you want to know how I really feel? I’m tired, stressed, I just don’t feel like me. It’s been a lot, a little too much for some people like me to handle. I mean we have a new President. At Least we got Trump out of office but this is going to cause more problems. Trump supporters have been laying low but they are coming up with something and I know it’s not going to be good. I just hope the world can become a better place. It’s hard to live in a world where everyone isn’t treated equally.

2020, I haven’t been able to see any of my family which sucks because family means everything to me. The friends that I did have I don’t talk to them as much because they all live far from me. I have to work on weekends so even if I wanted to hang with friends I couldn’t, but at least I get to travel to Houston, Texas to visit my mom and my brothers.

This is how I really feel. I’m scared. How do you really feel? Are you scared?

Artist’s Statement I completed this essay in my room, late at night on 11/12/20. I wrote it on my computer using google documents. I created an essay because I had a good idea in mind and didn’t know any other way to convey that idea other than an essay. The essay I wrote connects to the idea of the contest by showing how I and my life have changed due to covid-19 this year.

I started this project once it was given to me. at first, I was not sure what I wanted to do then it came to me a comic of my life in 2020. I would sit outside in mother nature to get ideas and in many other parts of my home. I chose to do a comic because I thought that it would be way better for everyone to see my point of view instead of reading my point of view.

I created this piece on my laptop at my house in Philadelphia PA. For this piece, I wanted to make a descriptive piece of writing that show what the past months have been like. I didn’t want to make some regular piece of writing though. the more I thought about the it the more I realized that several main words came to mind when I thought about the year of 2020. Pandemic, Tension, Laughter, Focus, and relief.

This writing relates to the theme of being a teenager during 2020 because it reflects some of the day to day experiences that I had. To write this I would write a paragraph about something that I remembered, or that had happened sometime that day. Each paragraph was written on a different day for I wanted my mindset on different days show in my writing. For example you may see that some paragraphs are sad/dark and others are happy.

The second piece that I created for the contest is a sonnet poem that I made about my nephew and our relationship. A sonnet poem has 14 lines divided into 4 quatrains and a couplet, which I followed to express my feelings towards my nephew. The poem has many emotions portrayed in it that represent my feelings very generously and I feel a range of emotions throughout the poem. The first emotion that I portrayed in this essay was love. This is love for my nephew and how much we care for each other. This is represented by a light purple color. The next emotion portrayed is family. This is the feeling of being there for one another and knowing we will stay together through whatever troubles we face. This is represented by a light blue The final emotion that I showed is anger or hate. Sometimes me and my nephew don’t get along, so we fight and argue all the time. This emotion is represented by a light red. When I first heard about the New York Times project, I wanted to do two things. First, I wanted to make something informative and personal, like an essay, and secondly I wanted to create an interesting writing piece, like a poem. I wanted both of the pieces to be about the same thing, so both writing pieces are about my relationship with my nephew. I created this piece by thinking of what I wanted to create. Once I had that figured out, I formed my piece and tried to find the right words to use that made sense for my emotions and followed the rhyme scheme I wanted to use. I went back many times and read through the poem to make sure it was good and portrayed what I wanted it to. It was kind of difficult to find something creative that I would be able to do, but I made something that I am proud of that is special to me.