This I Believe

Project Description

The This I Believe project is about our beliefs. We had to write a 400-500 word essay about a personal belief that we have. 

Process 

At first i had to write my essay on my belief which was love. for me writing my essay was kind of difficult because i really didn't know how to explain why was that my belief. After many drafts i finally got my essay of my belief. After we were done making our essay we had to take pictures of our profiles so we could put them on  our frame creatively. Then we would customize our frames with our essay and our profile so we could display on exhibition night.

Reflection

I really liked this project because i really got to express how i truly felt and this really got to me because i  based it on my parents and when exhibition night came and my mom read it she started crying so i really felt proud of this project. my moms tears was the meaning of m success.

This i Believe essay :

Understanding love

I believe in love because my parents had given it to me my entire life. The love of a parent is precise because they look out for their children to make sure that they are safe. I sometimes may think, “Oh my god why do they do this to me? I am not a little child anymore!” Well the truth is I am like that as well I don’t really like it when my parents treat me like a little girl but parents are always going to be parents.

            Whenever I go out with some friends or just family I always get the same lecture over and over again from my mom and dad. “Don’t get drinks from strangers, don’t talk to strangers, always stay with your friends, don’t go wandering off all by yourself etc.” That is really the last thing that I want to hear from my parents but I can’t do anything about it. My parents just do that to me, my brother or sister because they don’t want to risk losing us.

            Getting grounded is the worst thing of being a teen. I get grounded because I get home late, talk back to my parents, or don’t clean my room etc. There was a time when I had come home from my friend’s quinceañera practice and had gotten home at 9:30pm. I got home exhausted. I looked droopy like if I were to just drop dead in that instant. I had not done any of my homework, chores, nothing. My mom was furious, she told me that since I got home late I was going to clean the kitchen, clean my room completely and then do my homework. When she told me that I got this face of “what did you say”. Then my fury just came out and I started yelling at my mom saying “I AM TIRED AND I AM GOING TO GO TO MY ROOM DO MY HOMEWORK THEN GO TO SLEEP OKAY!” My mom just looked at me for a little then says “ Joss you’re grounded for two weeks” I go to my room all mad because I knew if I said another word she was going to ground me for a even longer time. After a while that I was in my room she comes in and tell me “mi amor te regaño por que te amo” even though it is hard to admit, it is the truth.

         The love of every parent is the love of everyone in the universe. They don’t know when to stop loving their child because they believe in them and they also believe that there children are going to be successful in life. I love my parents very much even though they make me mad, frustrated, happy, and excited. I know that my parents love me as well but now I think that it is my turn to express my love to them even more because they have already done so much for me.

REM

Description

In this project we had to read My Ishmael.We were reading this book for about a month or so and then Charlotte had given us a sheet of paper that three categories and in each category had a list of ideas of what you could do to represent the book . The point was tomake a project so that we could express our ideas in a fun creative way.

Process

First I had to read the book My Ishmael. Then I was going through the list that Charlotte had given us to read and choose one or more of the items on the lists. I had chosen the Illustrator. For the illustrator we had to do a piece of artwork that represented a chapter in the book or the main idea of the book overall. I had drew Julie sitting down in a chair , a thinking bubble was coming out of head like if Ishmael had already told her about something and she had to think about so she could understand it herself instead of someone else explaining it to her. inside the thinking bubble i had also painted men on steps and on each steps the mean change . i put that because it mean t the evolving philosophy of our race.

Reflection

This was a project that I had liked a lot because i got to choose the piece that i wanted to do and it gave me freedom to express what I wanted to do for a change because usually I have to write an essay about why did i like the book what questions do i still have etc. I hope that i get to do this again.