The rEvolutionaries project was a project made up of three components and topics that all added up to create it all. It started with studying nonviolent and violent revolutions in humanities and learned about revolutions all over and how they affected people.Then we started to study identity and what it meant and what it meant to us we were trying to figure out more about how it affected us and others . In math class we transitioned into working on probability and privilege and this is where it got really personal to most of us and where it changed a lot for the project.
Andrew Maya
AM Class 12/2/15 American Privileges Have you ever felt like you didn't have something but someone did or you had abilities others couldn't for some weird reason? This is what privilege is; the right or ability to have or do something. My name is Andrew Maya and I am a Mexican-American born and raised in California. I remember as a kid that I never really noticed things like race. For me I just thought people looked different from each other. When I was in Kindergarten, the only difference in kids was their hair colors and everyone's skin tone was close to pale. I never really thought anyone was different in a way. It started change as the next two years went on. I was realizing people’s skin were not the same anymore, and I would hear where other people's parents or family were from and it was not where mine where from. I would realize that it was different from mine. My ethnicity is Mexican and most of my class was white. That's when I started to actually realize I am the “different” one. I am the minority, when I would look at my friends skin and see how much lighter they were, I would do everything I could to be like them. My family both speaks English and Spanish but I really didn't know what to think, I was about five or four when I would hear weird words come out of people, words I had heard before. I wouldn’t think anything of it, I thought that maybe they’re just saying new words that I haven't learned. I think it was when I was around six or seven, I could understand the words that were coming from my Grandma. It was hard for me to know what she was saying, so I placed it together and realized that there was more than just English in the world. To veiw all of my portfolio click this link Full Portfolio |
The rEvolutionaries Racism Project: Essential Question: How does racism affect society?
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