Project+Maya+Cluster+Curriculum

P roject  M aya  C luster  C urriculum 

To start off our week, we began organizing events that would help us fundraise. Two events that we began working on are Cinco de Maya, a Mexican culture night, and a Children's Carnival , for the elementary school. Our practicum in Mexico was extremely costly, so fundraising will allow us to pay the school the money that we owe them. <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(217,149,148); line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(217,149,148); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'High Tower Text','serif';">For Tuesday, we decided to observe and learn a Mexica Cultural Dance and a Central American Song. We also worked on our portfolios. In addition to working on our portfolios, we made a Project Maya logo to silk screen tomorrow and we updated our wiki to show the progress we've made throughout the week, so far. We did a photoshoot to sell our raffle products. <span style="font-size: 36pt; color: rgb(155,187,89); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Action Jackson';"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(217,149,148); font-family: 'High Tower Text','serif';">

Throughout Wednesday, various small-group projects were completed. One group continued in the recording studio to produce a song with Mexican influences. Another group <span style="color: rgb(221,123,115);">taught the third grade. The last group worked on a screen print. For the first time in TRCS history, we successfully completed the whole screen printing progress. We then printed them onto bags and shirts. We also worked on the Project Maya's Cinco de Maya's raffle brochure utilizing [|photoshop]. We learned how to conquer and tame photoshop.

<span style="font-size: 36pt; color: rgb(128,100,162); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Action Jackson';"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(217,149,148); font-family: 'High Tower Text','serif';">First, we had a group share-out about the work that we accomplished so far. People shared songs, art, fliers, screenprints, brochures, and other projects. Throughout the day we were teaching the second grade and teaching the first grade. We also began working on a new screen to print onto some more shirts and bags. Lastly, we continued working on the wiki to update our progress.

<span style="font-size: 36pt; color: rgb(75,172,198); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Action Jackson';"> <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(217,149,148); font-family: 'High Tower Text','serif';">There was more work done on the screens, as well as restoring the screens to make them available for new designs. We also taught the fourth grade about Mayan numbers.

<span style="font-size: 36pt; color: rgb(247,150,70); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Action Jackson';"> For our presentation, we put together a slideshow with pictures from our practicum in Mexico, fliers for our events and pictures of our merchandise.

<span style="font-size: 24pt; color: rgb(54,95,145); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'High Tower Text','serif';">Student Summaries of Our Week