We Are Words, We Are Valuable

In this project, you will create an Identity Handbook using a scrapbook or a brochure.The handbook will show your individual or collective identity.

En este proyecto, realizarás un Prontuario identitario, con un álbum de recortes o un folleto.El prontuario mostrará tu identidad individual o colectiva.

Identification

1. In assembly and with the help of your teacher, read the following passage:

My grandparents sell tlacoyos at the Sunday market in Huehuetoca, in the Estado de México. A few days ago, I heard them use French words with their Haitian customers. It was strange because they do not usually use these words.

"Bonjour! Parlez vous frangais?(Good morning, do you speak French?),"the Haitian customers said.

tlacoyos?"answered my grandfather.

"15tlacoyo, s'il vous plait (15 for a tlacoyo, please),"added my grandmother.

"Je veux un tlacoyo, si'I vous plait (I want one tlacoyo, please)."I was surprised they could express themselves in French, but I know there are more foreign people in our country, and we need to communicate with them. Some people speak foreign languages, and others speak Indigenous languages.

Some friends at school told us their father comes from Guatemala, and they know a few words in Maya. Intrigued by what I hear and experience every day in my community with other languages, I want to try to learn another language, like my grandparents did. When they were very young, they learned Spanish easily, and now they are learning French rapidly. I decided to start learning my grandparents'language.

I willmake a handbook for them, either a scrapbook ora brochure, including the menu they prepare at their stand, to show it to their customers and facilitate communication.I do this because I respect and admire my grandparents. I am an artistic person, and I will illustrate their products. I am including

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