1. In the Jose Olivarez Article “Maybe I could save myself by writing” (2018), the author. The author grew up in struggling with his cultural Identity when growing up in the United States where he was rejected from a preschool that didn’t have anyone that spoke enough Spanish for him to help him attend classes, When lived in the USA he was considered “Too Spanish” but when he stated with his family in Mexico he wasn’t considered “Too Spanish” and corrected him.The kids on my grandparents’ block pronounced my name as my parents did, but when they asked me where I was from and I tried to tell them I was Mexican, they were quick to correct me. No, no, no. You’re from the United States. He felt out of place anywhere in and out of the country possible with his own family”
2. I once had an educational experience of asking for help, in middle school and high school it started getting harder to ask my parents for help as my dad left school at 12 and my mom went to school in a different country and the system was different. When applying to colleges I wasn’t even really able to ask around for help with my parents or other family members me and my cousin are the 1st generation to go to college and I wasn’t really able to ask her as her major was different than mine but helped with little things like financial aid and the start of the application but when dealing with things like now with large assignment or long hour classes they wouldn’t understand because they think I have time all day to start help and run errands just because of my classes online.
3. I would want to start in the pandemic when I first started doing my classes online and had a great passion for fashion. When i talked to my parents about what “real” jobs were. And had to restart my passions. 

Read:  NYT article: Kyle Spencer, “The Memory-Keeper of SoHo” (2015)

Watch: Documentary (14 min):  Or Szyflingier and Jonathan Baez, “The SoHo Memory Project” (2020)

• Comment:
  • 1. Below, write a 1-paragraph response to the article and the film. You may focus on anything that interests you– ideas from either work that you found interesting, connections you can make to your own neighborhood or experience of New York or another place,  something you noticed about the writing or filmmaking, images from the film that you found important, how different genres (newspaper profile of Yuki Ohta vs. documentary) affect our understanding of a story, or any other topic.
  • 2. After considering genre with this new material, think about your Unit 3 project.  Re-read the assignment (under MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS). What is your topic, and what genre have you chosen?  Has your thinking changed about what genre you’d like to work in for your project, after our discussion of genre with the SoHo Memory Project?  How will your choice of genre help tell your story and get the word out?
  • 3. EXTRA CREDIT OFFERED for writing a 1-paragraph response to the event, below. If you were unable to attend you can watch the event here