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Everybody wants to be tall, they want the feeling of being the bigger person in the room, but it's not what you think it's like

When you are tall the greater is your fall

When you are tall they ask you “do you play ball?” and you tell them no just so they can call you a waste of height

when people talk about my height they repeat what i heard so many times, im cautious not to bring up my height so as to not restart the tape recorder that i've heard on repeat.

When you are tall you can’t fit in to places that are small

I can’t go to the mall without catching a few wandering eyes just because im tall

when you are tall your head peeks over the stall

When you are tall, to play limbo sometimes you have to crawl.

Although I speak of being tall as a curse, its not

when you are tall you can ride any ride at the carnival

when you are tall you can handle a big haul

when you are tall you can take something off the wall

But being a giant in disguise isn't an easy task, I  just wish it would be as easy as putting on a mask just joking, or maybe not, just not till I get caught but maybe i'm just a modern giant, there are plenty of them out there

So when you see one of us, look, don't stare, unless you want to get in our hair.

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Final Copy Jean-Michel Basquiat Inspired Poem and Imagery (May 20, 2021 at 11_14 AM)

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Injustice isn't just a discussion,

It's the introduction of unfairness.

The awareness needs to be spread,

before I lay to bed.

help these lives survive

before they die .

Your supposed to be trusted

but now I'm disgusted.

I can't believe ,

how can this be?

“BANG”your now standing above me,

Now I can't breath.

I can't help but fear,

i'm like a piece of garbage,

no one can hear .

I have now disappeared.

My parents now grieve,

because you brought me 6 feet deep.

I am now put to sleep,

but have not done what I need to be at peace.

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She was 11

Wanting to go to heaven

She wanted to be done

He brought her to a hotel

As he yelled

Telling her to go to hell

While shes feeling unwell

She was feeling hate

While he was touching her waist

Now shes 20

Still feeling empty

Screaming help me

Not feeling healthy

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Why is it that I must be followed in stores?

Why are they staring at me?

Why don’t white people like me?

Did I do something wrong?

Why are they pulling my dad over?

Can’t they see there are kids in the car?

“Don’t worry these people are monsters, I’ll get rid of them”

They pull out the taser and start the torture

Screams, cries

Why do I have to live this life?

I didn’t choose to be black

But that obviously doesn’t matter to white people, that's a fact

Why does skin color even matter?

At the end of the day we are all humans

We should not have to spend our limited time in earth fighting for the justice we deserve

But will that ever happen, I guess we’ll never know

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Students were introduced to Jean Michel Basquiat and his style of art. Students then read " Life Doesn't Frighten Me" by Maya Angelo, illustrated by Jean Michel Basquiat. They then wrote their own poems and created an illustration using Jean Michels' style.

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I decided to draw a mushroom. The  realism was the most challenging one because I wanted to make it look real but using different colors/shades. My favorite part was Non-objective because it was really fun to use paint and tape to create shapes and lines.

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I drew a lion. I liked drawing the non-objective side because I was able to use a lot more lines and shapes. The most difficult was the abstract side because I had to think about how it could look more abstract.

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My object is a cake. I think that I did create unity with my piece as a whole. The elements and principles I used compliment each other. I think the realistic and the abstract sides complement each other because the colors I used on the realism side are the darker versions of the abstract side and I used green as the background color so it doesn’t all look the same. I decided to use a cake because I like to bake and also because a cake doesn’t really have one specific look. So I could have made it look anyway that I wanted. The most challenging part was creating the abstract side. It was most challenging because it for me required the most thinking. My favorite style of art to create was the non-objective part. It was my favorite because it was the side where I could put almost anything I wanted from scribbles to batterstains.

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I drew a flower. I used shapes to the right side to make sure it did not look realistic and I used lines to make the petals and stuff. The most challenging part most likely the realistic part so i didn't try my best since i’m not good with the middle part. I really enjoyed the left side, I love making random patterns and going freely instead of the right side since I made shapes and not random lines. The realism /the middle part was also not a liking of mines since I don't enjoy realism in art

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I drew a lego, the most challenging part was the non-objective part. I had to add a lot of lines, colors, and designs for it to look less like a lego. My favorite part was the realism because it looks exactly like a lego.

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Students learned about three forms of art. Realism: The artist is using real colors, proportion, textures, etc. Abstract: where the artist is drawing something from real life, but using creative liberties with the colors, textures, proportion, line, etc Non-Objective Art: the artist is using ONLY lines, colors, shapes, and there is no subject matter other than having elements of art. Students then selected an object and divided their paper into three sections and implemented each style of art in a section.

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I created a joker card. The most challenging part was the non-objective part. I had to add a lot to try and get it to look less like a card.

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My artist is Vashti Harrison, she was born in virginia 1988, 33 years old. She isa a writer, illustrator and filmmaker. She was nominated for  Goodreads Choice Awards Best Picture Books, Awards:  NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's and movies : Field Notes, Forged From the Love of Liberty.

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Jackie Ormes was the first African American cartoon artist. She brings the comic cartoon style into the light for the African American artist community . She made the art style popular and She was inducted in the black journalist hall of fame for her talents.

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Alma Thomas suffered from pain of arthritis during her final years it prevented her from being able to paint as much as she wanted. She impacted /changed the world by being the first African American women to have her own exhibition in the museum called “New York's Whitney Museum of American Art” and has also had her artwork 3 times in the white house. She opened the doors for more African American women so they can also be able to share their art-work .

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My influential person is Lupita Nyong’o. She is a Kenyan Mexican Artist. In my art piece I drew a picture of Lupita surrounded by her favorite colors pink and purple.I included the purple flower to represent one of the characters in her book that struggles to think she is beautiful just because she is dark skinned. I also put on of her famous quotes in the upper left hand side “ Clay can be dirty in the wrong hands but clay can be art in the right”. She is an outstanding role model shows people that with time and hard work you can do anything. Fun fact Lupita is also author one of her famous book Sulwe. It is a new york times best seller and also has a netflix animated film version. A photo of her book is on the upper right hand corner.

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Students researched an artist. It could have been a visual artists, musical artist, photographer etc. The students were to research a person to celebrate Black History Month, Women's Month and Hispanic Heritage Month. Students gathered information about what made the artist famous, what impact they had on the world and identify the specific style. Once the research was complete, students created their own work highlighting their specific artist. Students then recorded themselves reading about their artist.

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My artist is Faith Ringgold. She couldn’t go to school because she suffered from asthma. She used art/painting to show her feelings. She inspires other people to create art. I created this because it shows my identity (where I’m from) and it shows powerful quotes from great black activists in the past. Faith makes collages to express her feelings and that inspired the piece that I created

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My artist is Antonio Berni, who was born on May 14, 1905 and died on October 13, 1981 of old age, was a famous Argentine artist who was mainly focused surrealism. This is one of his works of art, he called it “La Espera” and I chose it because it's one of his lesser known works and I believe it’s a very good painting because why this painting is one of his few pop culture paintings.

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I combined warm and cool colors because they work well together.

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The color scheme that I chose is cool colors. I chose cool colors because when I was drawing it, the music I was listening to was slow and to we cool colors are a way to represent that.

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The color scheme I chose was warm colors. It gives the feeling of warmth like rays from the sun.

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Color Scheme Project (Feb 11, 2021 at 7_01 PM)

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I chose warm and cool colors for my color scheme. The background gives off the cool water feelings and I added warm colors to the body because our bodies are naturally warm.

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I chose green and red because they are complementary colors. It looks the nicest in my opinion and i didn't really think warm and cool colors went with a clock.

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Students created projects using Color Scheme. Color Scheme is the colors are put together in an intelligent way.