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Mendez Lopez, Giovanna

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11th Grade Best Work

I was asked to research a country in my 11th grade Spanish for Spanish Speakers class and put

together a power-point, prepared to present it in front of the class. I decided to choose

Guatemala, my home country, as the topic of my project. We were asked to research many

aspects of the culture including food, music and popular traditions. We also had to research

recognized individuals that had originated from the country we covered as well as the famous

geographical regions.

I threw myself into research right away and spent a lot of time preparing for the

presentation, I had even asked my mother to look over it and asked her several questions about

certain aspects of my projects. The project meant a lot to me because I came to America at a

very young age which meant that I had little to no time to experience that world. When coming

to family gatherings, seeing people that had just arrived from there made me feel like I was an

outsider looking into another world. Which was true in a sense because lifestyle is different

there, but it made me feel more foreign to my family. This project gave me the opportunity to

learn more about my home and what life might have been like had we stayed.

The project taught me that thorough research and presentation was important, depending

on the content of one's slides. People may half-pay attention unless there's something that catches

their attention. I did my best to work on the presentation and drew most of my visuals, adding

cartoony elements to the slides to make them seem less barren as I elaborated what my slides

represented. I wanted my classmates to enjoy

looking at the content as much as I'd enjoyed making a couple of the visuals.

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