My students need to participate in the Memory Project to draw portraits of orphans in Paraguay now, with mirrors to see their own features and mat boards for framing.
$563 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
A typical day in our city-our state-United States, is what these students know and is familiar to them. But give them a map, photos of orphans from another country, a story about their country and their personal struggle and their minds open to learning, participating and not being isolated.
My students, about 150 6th, 7th, 8th graders, walk through the classroom door each day talking to their friends and then settle down for 50 minutes of creating, using this room to think like an artist, be self disciplined, creative, imagine, using their minds, thinking deeply and being an artist.
An artist makes art so they are artists for maybe only this one time in their lives.
They are small sixth graders that are barely out of elementary school experiencing a room that is just for art for the first time. They are unsure of themselves. Some of the students are tall 7th and 8th graders, 8th graders, experienced middle school student that is looking ahead to high school and that new experience.
The area is a high poverty area and most students don't travel even to the neighboring big city. Their world is the city they live in, the school they go to, their family and friends. The school is the center of the city and the center of their lives for learning and new experiences.
My Project
With mirrors, mats and participation in The Memory Project, the students will draw portraits, color them, mat them and send them to the orphans in Ghana or Paraguay this year with the Memory Project. With this project, students will learn about the countries, learn about the orphans and their lives in their countries.
A door will be opened and a gift of a portrait drawn will be given to someone their own age in another country. We will see the pictures delivered to the orphans in May when a video is taken and the link sent to us.
All 140 students will make portraits. With the eight mirrors they will be able to look at their own features and make better, more realistic, accurate portraits for the orphans in the two countries. All together during the school year 300 students will participate in this project and learn about the two countries. It is using art as a service learning project to enrich another person live in another country. Their world gets bigger with this humane human experience.
Students will draw a portrait of another student/orphan in another country.
They will learn about the orphans in that country. They will create something to give to that orphan and watch a video of it being delivered. They will find the country that most students have never heard of on a map and see pictures of that country. They will be reaching out and caring for someone in another country. Does this affect them and make them better people for taking part in this project? Yes!
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