| This project required us to tap into our inner chef, as we took a recipe from a Spanish speaking country, and created the steps and the dish to go along with it. The planning process took several days, yet my partner and I finally decided to settle on Huevos Revueltos con Chiles! This is a scrambled egg dish from Cuba, and although we did not make it as traditional as Cubans might, we felt confident with our scrambling skills! To the left you'll see our cooking video, and below, our reflection! |
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In this project, we were instructed to research a celebrity or influential figure from south america, mexico, or any other Spanish speaking country! We would then write a short biography outline, entailing their life and habits and what they did, finally ending with us creating an art piece about them and presenting a speech. What you see below is the speech that I conducted as Fidel Castro (or from his perspective).
For the Dia de los Muertos project, we were assigned to complete two different mini projects, one being the writing of calaveras (which are Mexican satirical poems) and the other being to write about a lost loved one, and providing a picture of them. We wrote two different calaveras, one being about a certain occupation, and the other being about a specific person. Both of my calaveras targeted politicians, as they are a very easy target for satire. I focused the majority of my attention on the first written calavera, which was about politics in general (without one main focus). I went through four major revision processes, the most important of which was my second as it involved the feedback from both of my teachers and enabled me to work through the major grammatical and structural flaws. The third and fourth draft were my own, and it was seeing if there were words that could be easily changed to allow the poem to flow more, or if there were ways to write the calavera out more professionally and to look more visually pleasing. As for the cultural aspect of this project, my learning process was extremely great, as I had had little to no knowledge of Dia de los Muertos before this year (surprising, I know), and so I was astonished at the fact the in that culture, death is as much a part of their lives as food is! My biggest takeaway was definitely the idea that the dead should not be mourned, rather celebrated (which in a way is their form of mourning). The images you see above are the work that I composed. From left to right: Lost Loved One art with Description, Calavera Art with calavera write-up, Both calaveras in written form!
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