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This project included 2 components, you got to research your dream college and practice how a real interview would be. It was difficult to memorize all your lines and make it look like a real interview

The Conversational powerpoint was a colorful fun project. This project helped me with seeing the differences between terms as well as similarities. The powerpoint includes time, date, opinion, location, identification, my favorite prepositions and much more. This powerpoint is very helpful when you have “brain fart” and need a refresher on a topic real quick. This contributes to why I enjoyed this project, it was short, sweet and very helpful.

This project is based on a traditional Spanish holiday. My project is about the passing of my uncle which happened about a year ago. This project contains a slideshow, a picture of my skull that I designed, a reflection in English, and a Spanish eulogy.

The person that passed away is my uncle. His name was Khalid Al-Tahir and he was 45 years old when he passed away. He was with my other uncle and grandmother and they were all in one car. They were on their way home from the masjid. They prayed the sunrise prayer, so it was still somewhat dark. They were at a red light and when it finally turned green, they went and all of a sudden a huge truck came speeding into them. They were rushed into the hospital; my uncle had a head injury, my grandmother had a broken arm as well as a head injury and finally my uncle was in a coma. Soon enough, we found out that my uncle and grandmother were released from the hospital however,my other uncle was still in a coma. Everyday we would get the same news, the news of him not waking up. It stressed my mother out because she was in America and it is very difficult to go to Saudi Arabia. About a month later, we found out he was pronounced dead. It hurts at the thought that the person I talk to is actually dead. A part of me didn’t want to believe it.A part of me thought that he was still alive so he’s still asleep. But reality hit me, and I thought that it was a time where I needed to accept it.

This person meant a lot to me because he was very nice and always showed empathy for others. With him living halfway across the world, we managed to keep in touch and always talk about things that were going on in our lives. I’ve decided to create this sugar skull in remembrance of my uncle. I thought that creating the sugar skull could help me bring back memories of the both of us. I didn’t actually see him face-to-face since it wouldn’t really work out. I am living in the United States while he was living with his family in Saudi Arabia. There was a time where my mom told me that we were finally going to Saudi Arabia and in my head I say, “Wow, I actually get to see my uncle and my aunt for the first time.” When I finally go there, I find out that he went to Sudan to see his family. I was very disappointed. Later on, when we went to Sudan, he came to visit us, however, I don’t remember seeing him. My mother would tell me that he visited and she introduced me to him, but I don’t remember. Now, all that I see from him is a picture of him on social media or from my aunt. Also, my aunt and mother would tell me stories about him. The stories are actually beneficial to me in general. It made me think about how he sees life and how he went on with his life when he was alive. Also, I thought about how his family reacted when the doctors told them he was gone. It must’ve felt heartbreaking. In my head, I said thank god I’m not there because I wouldn’t know how to deal with it. He was the first person that had died and that I knew personally.

So, for my sugar skull, I decided to put the two flags of the countries that he lived in, Sudan (his birth country) and Saudi Arabia (where he lived with his family). His favorite color was brown so I colored the sugar skull brown. I also wanted to draw a ring to show that he was married and put 45 small dots around the skull to show the age he was. Since, I previously mentioned that he was peaceful so I will be drawing a peace sign. Since his birthday is on March 16, 1968, he is a pisces, so I would be painting a pisces sign next to the islamic symbol on the skull’s forehead.

Dia de los Muertos opened my mind up to celebrating the passing of loved ones. It helped me realize how it affected me when they passed away and how special they are to me. It helped me recognize who I am because of these people. It showed me how worthy a human being can be when you start to think about memories that I had with those people. It showed me that I should thank God that I’m still living and breathing healthy. I have to appreciate the people and things that I have in my life because anything could happen at anytime and anywhere.

Spanish Eulogy:

Hola, me llamo Saraa Fadl. Yo estoy en el grado décimo. Voy a hablar de la muerte de Khalid Al-Tahir. Él nació en Sudán y vivió toda su vida ahí. Luego, él vivía en Arabia Saudita con su familia. Él era una persona de paz y amaba a todos él conocía. El trabaja como ingeniero civil. Él es muy competente con su carrera.

Yo soy en America. Yo vivo en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Todos los días, yo creo que él. Mi mamá nos dice cuentos de él. Yo creo que como mi prima esta sin su padre. Yo buscado veo ella cuando nosotros ir a Sudán. De la manera que, es malo tiempo, asi que yo no podía vio ella.

Reflection Paper

The love one that I decided to do for Día de los Muertos was my aunt. Her name was Jacquleine Brocco I called her aunt Jackie so did all her other nieces and nephews. She meant so much to me. She was much fun to be with we would always laugh and dance. She was so easy to talk to. My aunt jackie was a great mother, sister, cousin, wife and aunt. She was so lovable. Losing her took a toll on everyone's lives. Especially her children and sister. My aunt was like my Best friend I could tell anything. She gave the best advice when it came to school and she never sugar coated anything for us. Also,even if came to something we was going through she would give us some type of advice to help us or to ease our minds. I decided to create my sugar skull in remembrance of her because I miss her so much. I've could've did my cousin instead we were close but I felt closer to my aunt. Even though it’s been a couple years it still hurts and I miss her so much. So making a sugar skull wasn't a morning thing it help me to remember who she was and to show what type of person she was. For those who didn't know her. Also, remembering someone who has passed doesn't have to be a mourning thing. So making this sugar skull in remberce of her helped me to see that.

My sugar skull reflected the things she liked and what she wanted to do. The orange and brown feathers represent Thanksgiving. My aunt Jackie loved Thanksgiving she would always have my mom cook. We would have all my cousin over. She loved her family and this time of year. When she past it just wasn't the same. During Thanksgiving we would have our family drama but she would always try to find a way to ignore or make it funny. Sometimes she would play music and blast it through the house and start dancing. Sometimes do this loud obnoxious laugh and me and my cousins would always join in laughing and seeing who had the weirdest laugh or who could laugh louder. The reason I gave my skull purple hair is because she had a lot of hair. When she would wet is it would get super curly, when it would start to dry it’ll still be curly but get really big and puff. We would all laugh and call her Diana Ross, She would always give us this look like really guys. Another reason why I chose purple hair instead of Black is because she always talked about dying her hair purple. My older cousin would always debate with her the color she should get. We all thought Purple would be too much. On my sugar skull I place one silver sequin on the left cheek because my aunt only had one dimple on her left cheek. My aunt's children, sister and brother all had dimples but they had both on both cheeks. She the only one in the bunch that had only one dimple. I always thought that made her pretty unique. The reason I painted my skull yellow was because she was light skin.

Día de los Muertos really Opened up my mind. After doing various ways of researching what Día de los Muertos is and doing a Día de los Muertos of my own by creating a mask and a skull really helped. It helped me to see that when your loved one dies you can have a way remembering who they are without it having to be sad. So doing this sugar skull and masked helped me to see that. When doing it I thought it was going to be very emotional but surprisingly it wasn’t. It felt pretty good to talk about her and not it being emotional. Now I know a different cultural way of remembering my aunt. In my family we always block of our street on the day she passed and eat dance in remembrance of her. All the friends and family come around then towards the end we go and light candles and let balloons go. Día de los Muertos is a very good cultural alternative way to remember your loved ones and knowing how other cultures deal with the death of their loved ones without it being emotional. Día de los Muertos really opened up my mind to remember my aunt Jackie. In addition, to Día de los Muertos helping me understand this I would highly recommend others to try this to remember loved ones who have passed.

Eulogy

Intro

Me llamo Ashton. La persona yo elegir está por Día de los Muertos, está mí tía Jackie.

Origen

Mí tía Jackie es de Filadelfia. Ella somos afroamericano y puertorriqueña.

Identificación

Mi tía es una quedarse en casa madre. Ella querido su hijos. Sus llamo es Jamod, Jalyke y Jasper.

Características

Ella son joven y bello. Mí tía es baja. Ella es también loca, creativa, inteligente and aplicada. Ella es muy amorosa y cálida. Ella siempre querido útil gente si podía. Mí tía es a fuerte mentalmente.

Localización

Ella es veintisiete cuando ella morir. Yo ella tan mucho. Cuando yo escuchó ese ella morir yo están devastado. Su muerte made hecho saber eso es vida también corta. Yo desear ella está aúa vivo. Ella está como mí mejor amigo.

Condiciones

Este proyecto está mucho diversión. Eso no hacer mí triste eso mí feliz. Yo sentido buena de acordarse la buena tiempo ese nosotros pasar.

Wesley White

November 5, 2015

Spanish 2 Benchmark

Día de los Muertos

T.A.G English Reflection

The person who passed away was my great-grandmother.  To be more specific, her name was Margaret, but we, her great grandchildren, usually called her “Peg mom.” The way we got this name was one day some of my cousins came up with it to give her a distinct name that she could be known for.  From that point on, we called her peg mom and that name stuck.  Along with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren calling her “Peg mom,” many of her best or closest friends and really almost anyone called her “Peg” and that was her nickname. The real reason for this is because Peg is another way of saying Margaret, but she was never really known as Margaret, even though it was her real name.  Apart from her being my great-grandmother, she was my mother’s grandmother.  I am saying this not to state the obvious, but to say that my mother was very close to my great-grandmother while she was still living.  And, of course, my grandmother was close to her as well, and she was definitely shaken when she passed.  So, she wasn’t just a great-grandmother, although that is what she was to me.  She was a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, a great aunt, and a friend of many.

Peg mom meant a great deal to me.  I believe that I really did get to know her and learn about most of the things she liked to do while she was alive, and I am blessed because of that.  She died earlier this year in February, and the last time I saw her and got to spend time with her was Christmas Eve of last year.  It was a special time celebrating a holiday with her, but not even knowing that it would be the last memory I have of her.  However, I cherish the moments I spent conversing with her and telling her about my life in the last 15 years of her life.  I always viewed peg mom as a servant and a teacher, always talking with kindness and teaching with patience.  In addition to her meaning a lot to me, she also meant a lot to my mother and my grandmother as I said before.  My mother in particular was very close to her because she was like a mentor to her.  She lived very close to my great-grandmother, so my mom was over at her house almost every day, and she was taught many things by her.  This connects to me personally because those lessons that my mom learned were taught to me and my brothers.  So, when my great-grandmother passed, it my mother and I alike were both sad, because we were close to her in our own ways.

I created the sugar skull and mask in remembrance of her because she was important to me and my whole family.  She lived to be 96 years old and each year we will remember her.  She was a huge impact on my family and me in particular as well.  Therefore, the first person who came to my mind when I was introduced to this project was her, so peg mom is who I chose.  I also chose her because I knew that their were many aspects of her life that I was sure I could cover when I created my mask and skull.  I knew some of these areas not only by a couple of my experiences with her, but also learning about the experiences that my mom had with her, and the memories they made together.

My sugar skull reflects this person because it shows who she was and things she liked.  For example, I put stamps on it because she was post mistress, the person who runs the post office.  Also, I included some of her favorite colors which were lavender and green.  Also, on the eyes of the sugar skull, I put on buttons because she loved to collect things, and her biggest collection was of buttons.  On the mask, I included the buttons again, but I also made a piano to reflect the fact that playing the piano was one of her most favorite hobbies and it was something she had a talent for.  She was an organist and choir director for 20 years at Kirkpatrick Memorial Presbyterian.  She also enjoyed sharing her talent with others by playing when family or friends were over.  Peg mom also taught some family members a lot of skills she knew about the piano, and those skills were passed down from generations.  In addition, along with other colors, I did put her favorite colors on the mask as well.  The last thing I put on my mask was a hole for golf.  The reason for this, as you would assume, is because golf was another one of her hobbies that she liked to do.

Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) has opened up my mind to celebrate the passing of my loved ones because it is a good way to spend time remembering all the good things that person has done.  Because it is a three day festival that people of Spanish culture celebrate every year it is a perfect time to not only think about the people who have died when you were living, but also to reflect on your life.  Death is inevitable for everyone.  There is no way out of dying, because everyone will die eventually.  So, instead of just mourning and being sad about a person who you loved passing, even though sometimes that is necessary, we should celebrate that person’s life and reflect upon all the accomplishments and achievements that they have made in their lifetime. In regards to my great-grandmother, Día de los Muertos has reopened my mind to how death is not just a sad time of her body leaving this earth, but it is the thought of her being in a better place that makes me want to celebrate.  After all she has accomplished and all she has persevered through though troubles came her way, her life on this earth finally came to an end, but we will never forget her.  I love you Peg mom!

Spanish Eulogy

Soy el bisnieto de este persona.  Vivo en filadelfia y tengo quince años. Tengo dos hermanos y siete primos. Ellos son los otros bisnietos de mi bisabuela.

Ella nació en Ringoes, Nueva Jersey.  Su padres fueron Charles y Marion Berger Higgins. Ella vivió en Newark pero su madre murió y ella vivió con su tía y abuela. Pero, cuando ella se casó, su esposo Harley, se mudaron a Flemington.  Ellos regresaron a Ringoes cuando ellos tuvieron hijos.  Cuando visité, ella vivío en una casa en Ringoes. Ella fue mi bisabuela.  Se graduó de preparatoria y estudió en el colegio Bloomfield para convertirse en una enfermera. Ella trabajó y fue una enfermera en el hospital presbyterian de Newark.  Después de que ella tuvo una familia, ella trabajó de casa y a la estafeta por veinte años. Mi bisabuela amó trabajar y ella fue una persona muy ocupada. Ella fue cómica y simpática.  Ella fue una bonita y muy inteligente mujer.

Estoy en filadelfia, en mi casa.  Espiritualmente, estoy contento.  Puedo vivo en tranquilidad, porque ella está y será siempre en nuestros corazónes.  Mi bisabuela vivió una larga y abundante vida, y estoy feliz para ella.  Estoy triste, pero alegre también porque tengo memorias de ella conmigo.

Yo amo mi bisabuela.  Ella fue magnífica.  Pero, toda la gente tener que morir un día.  Ella murió y ahora nosotros recordamos su vida.  Ella fue una persona increíble, y mi familia amaron ella. Día de los Muertos ayudame reflexionar en la vida de mi bisabuela. ¡Te amo Peg mamá!

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Skull and Mask Pictures

Title: Ivy’s Días De Descanso

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El Narrador- Dos  días antes Navidad, todo atravesar la casa el es frio, despertarse en el  medio de él noches a obtener caliente chocolate pero… Una noche cuando ella fue a buscar el chocolate caliente, ella no sentía tan buena.

Página Dos

Ivy- “Mamá, mamá, mamá” escrito Ivy.

Madre- ¿Qué pasa?

Ivy- No me siento bien

Madre- ¿Tienes frío?
Ivy- Sí mamá. ¿Tenemos chocolate caliente en la cocina? |
Madre- Sí, yo voy a ir hace algunos.
Ivy- Gracias, mamá

Página Tres

El Narrador- Cinco minutos más tarde en tres y cinco en la mañana, Ivy la mamá aún está en la cocina haciendo la hiedra de chocolate caliente. Como hiedra sigue esperando a ella chocolate caliente, ella salir de su cama y mira por la ventana. Para averiguar ese está nevando y ella vuelve a la cama.

Página Cuatro
La madre de Ivy finalmente está hecho y sube las escaleras . Entrando en la habitación de la hiedra ", aquí tienes Ivy , añadí malvaviscos en el interior de la manera que les guste ", dijo la madre de Ivy. Sin decir una palabra , un minuto más tarde la madre de Ivy da cuenta de que Ivy está durmiendo y pone el chocolate caliente de Ivy en la mesa.

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Sensación frío y sueño, madre ivy's vuelve a ella habitación y se queda dormida. 2 horas más tarde a 5:30 de la mañana, el día antes de Navidad, Ivy es despierto vomitando con mala dolor de cabeza. "Mamá, mamá no me siento bien, mis dolores de estómago", dijo Ivy.

Página Seis
" Ivy es realmente malo que tienes que ir al hospital? ", dijo Ivy's madre. Pensando en el hospital hace Ivy más enfermos, miedo y ella dice "Estoy asustado mamá , ya sabes que" . "Creo que voy a descansar en mi cama y llamo a uno de mis amigos ", dijo Ivy. " Esta bien Ivy , si necesitas algo estaré abajo poniendo la estrella en la parte superior del árbol de Navidad ", dijo la madre de Ivy's.




Página Siete
Mientras Ivy se encuentra todavía en ella habitación y sensación de frío y enfermo , ella llama todos sus amigos , Lisa , Deja y Kayla pero nadie contesta el teléfono . Al mismo tiempo , madre Ivy's está abajo en el teléfono con todos de Ivy's amigos , planeando una sorpresa para Ivy.


Página Ocho

"Hola Kayla , Lisa y Deja , yo sé que es el día antes de Navidad , pero Ivy no se siente bien ", dijo madre Ivy's. ¿Qué hay de malo con Ivy , Ms.Taylor " dijo Lisa . " Ella está enferma con un fuerte dolor de cabeza . Así que yo quería saber si va a ser posible para todos ustedes por venir a verla ", dijo Ivy mamá.

Página Nueve
" Por supuesto, estaremos allí" todos dijeron . " Muy bien niñas eso es genial, ver ustedes pronto. Madre Ivy's cuelga el teléfono y empezar a hornear unas galletas para las niñas y los acabados con envolver los regalos .

Página Diez
El timbre suena tres veces , Ms.Taylor abre la puerta diciendo a las niñas a no hacer un sonido para Ivy para escuchar . "Mamá , quién está aquí ", dijo Ivy. Sin respuesta , Ivy se levanta de la cama para ir a cepillarse ella dientes y se pone ella suéter de Navidad y los pantalones con ella cálidos calcetines.