The purpose of this project was to learn about different Spanish commands. We learned that present commands given to another person are just the word in the "tu" conjugation, then remove the s. An example is "tomar." Tomar means to take, and if you say "tu tomas" or you take, it is in the tu conjugation. You would then remove the tu and the s at the end to say Toma. This means, "Take!" We also used this unit to learn about different Latin cooking around the world. For my project I chose Gatêau Basque, or Basque Cake, which comes from the Basque region of Spain and France. I believe this project I created demonstrates the aspects we learned. I used multiple commands in Spanish to express the recipe I used and edited. The video below is a production on how to make Gatêau Basque.
El Proyecto de Mi Inmigrante
The purpose of this project was to learn about past tense in Spanish. We learned how to talk about our past using the imperfecto and pretérito conjugations. The pretérito was used for more specific events, like a set time or a date in your past, whereas the imperfecto conjugation was used for less defined events. We also used this unit to learn more about our past and family history. We learned where we came from and studied how our family members came to America, hence the name, “the Project of my Immigrant.” For our project I wrote about my great grandmother, Gisella Bogar. She was born in Slovenia and came over to America in the early 1900s. She was born in 1912 and lived until 2012, so she was 100 years old when she died. She married my great grandfather Alexander Csahuk and they had my grandmother Sandra Csuhuk. My great grandparents didn’t have a lot of money, but they still managed to have a prosperous life, full of happiness and love. They were kind and caring people who supported my dad and grandma. I was able to meet my great grandmother when I was one, but she died a few years later.
El proyecto de Dia de los Muertos
La Dia de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrating the dead. It is a day to honor the dead and bring them offerings. The holiday originated with the Aztecs, an ancient Mexican empire, where they would use Marigolds to guide the dead back home. In the 1500s the Spanish invaded Mexico and toppled the Aztec empire. They brought over many commodities from Europe and introduced their culture. Later, after the introduction of Christianity there was a bit of cultural syncretism and the Catholic religion was incorporated into la Dia de los Muertos. Crosses and grave yards became a big part of the day because of this introduction. It is now celebrated in Mexico and Southwest North America. We "celebrated" the holiday at Animas to better our knowledge of Spanish and as a way to immerse ourselves in Spanish speaking culture.
La Calavera Literaria
During this unit we learned about Calavera poetry. This poetry is aimed towards making fun of people through talking about death and how the person died. My Calavera poem is about Stalin, former primer of the USSR. The translation of my poem is... "With a big Mustache" "You take a bottle of Whiskey" "And send many people to prison" "You live in an onion"
"While you drink the whiskey" "You trip on the bones of the people" "And go into a freezing river" "Your mustache is on fire"
Obituario
During this unit we also completed an obituary for someone or something that died. I chose to create an obituary for my grandpa, who died a few years ago. We had to write this obituary in Spanish and our main goal was to use past tense verbs and adjectives, died and lived.