Project Overview:
Every year 10th grade students at Nathan Hale do a project that incorporates their learning and understanding of Latin America. During the Third Quarter, we studied the history of three countries in Latin America. The countries we studied are: Nicaragua, Mexico, and Cuba. In addition, we learned about magical realism in Language Arts, which will also be incorporated into the project.

Project Components:
The project it self then breaks down into 4 smaller projects that include: A Mural, Performance, Movie, and Website. Our class is also split up and we get into groups to do each of these.

Theme:
Each of these all relate and come together with a unifying theme that each class develops in the beginning of the project. Our theme for Ms. Calogero's class is: The Struggle for Freedom. In our theme we also have many elements that connect to it and are used in our projects. The elements in our theme are: Cycles (time: past-present-future), Globalization, The Media, Industrialization, Commercialization, Poverty, Social Justice, and Revolution. With our theme we use are current knowledge of history in Latin America and Magical Realism to create the Mural, Movie, Performances, and Webpage.