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Written by Bella Mitchell
On Wed. Jan. 6 and Fr. Jan. 8, Ms. Rendon’s Spanish III class participated in a project. The class explained in Spanish, how to make a dish while getting videotaped.
“I have been preparing for this project since Ms. Rendon assigned it,” junior Brian Ngwa said. “This project for me is like a final in importance.”
Ms. Rendon asked for volunteers to go first saying she knew no one would want to go first. Pretty soon the students gave in and started setting up their work area for the double test grade.
“My teacher made a point that you can’t do bad at this project unless you want to fail,” junior Maliz Manop said. “She normally isn’t strict but she seemed serious.”
Ms. Rendon’s project rubric informed the students, in the second of two pages, the ingredients that students may and may not use, the grading process, due date, how to prepare, a strategy, how to present the project and ideas for dishes including flour tortillas with a mini buffet of fillings.
“I spent hours online looking for a Mexican recipe that was simple and wouldn’t take too much time. It was pretty much narrowed down to five recipes with ingredients that I haven’t heard of in my whole life. But I finally found a simple enchilada recipe,” junior Jasmine Skeeters said.
Ingredients for Mexican and Spanish dishes including salsas, tacos, quesadillas, fajitas, guacamole, yellow rice, enchiladas and empanadas covered the table at the back of the Spanish classroom. The instruction sheet for this project called for beginner or basic recipes but these students stopped at nothing.
“I knew everyone wouldn’t pay attention to the instructions for easy Mexican recipes, they would go all out. I had no choice but to take the lead,” sophomore Carlos Euceda said.
Students placed themselves at two separate filming areas to explain and cook the dishes in full, fluent Spanish. Stuttering occurred but not one student quit in the middle.
“I’m not good in front of the camera, never have been and never will,” junior Dianna Nguyen said. “It was even worse thinking about the whole class looking back and watching me forget my lines and look like a complete idiot on the video.”
After two whole class periods and outside of school hours, the filming and presentations concluded and Ms. Rendon praised students for their hard work. Cleaning the work station and conversation over how the project went crammed the last few minutes of the class time.
“I want to take back all the complaining and unreasonable arguments I had about this project,” Euceda said. “Now that it all is said and done I am very glad I put my time and effort into this story and I look forward to seeing my grade, which is a first.”
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