Maya Child Interaction

The special education teacher did not have to be her sole teacher, but the general education teachers were not really communicating with the special education teacher unless they were complaining or disregarding her advice. The general education teachers could have been using the special education teacher as a resource to brainstorm ideas with about Juanita’s education, but instead they tended to ignore her advice. There were also may issues regarding the roles each teacher played. The general education teacher was doing the very minimum for Juanita when it came to addressing her behavior and school work and leaving it all up to the special education teacher to instill discipline during

When Maya returns to Stamps after spending time with her mother, she endures the shame of having been sexually abused by Mr. Freeman, her mother’s boyfriend. Maya stops speaking to everyone except her brother, Bailey. Her real mother accepts her silence at first as trauma, but she later gets angry at Maya’s “disrespectful behavior”. Much to Maya’s relief, she is sent back to live with Momma in Stamps along with her

Adriana studied at Kean University where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in teaching, while also minoring in Spanish. Her experience at Kean was so positive that she decided to remain there and earn her Master’s degree. She was an active student, taking part in many activities with her honor society and also writing for the school newspaper Kean Current. While as a student, Adriana worked for Lusitania Bank, a medium size Portuguese bank in the Newark area. She believes that dealing with all sorts of different characters that approached her at the bank, both nice and mean, has helped her to deal with people today.

Part I: Melinda Gutierrez and I, decided to meet on a Sunday after church. We decided to have lunch at her house with her family since she is the one who is married and has children. Since we are both Mexican, we both decided to have tamales for lunch since it is one of our favorite foods. Since I am from Oaxaca and she is from Nuevo Leon, our tamales were different, so we can say that we try out different tamales. While having lunch, we talked about our lives, families, and culture. From this conversation, we both learned that we are very close to our families. She explained to me that her family lives in the same neighborhood as her so they always get together for celebrations or

Julia, a Hispanic EX-prisoner, works as a Janitor in a marketing company for about 4 months. When she is about to leave work and go home to celebrate her son's birthday. Her colleague and boss secretary asks her to talk to the new Director of Personnel in the company, Terry. Julia feels a bit worry about meeting the new boss plus she can’t be late to her son’s birthday. Then, Julia breaks the worry and goes to the boss office.

She worked as a receptionist, but also helped out in the back with the nurses. I think her daughters supported what she did, but her husband not really. Mrs. Perez loved him so much that when Mr. Perez told her to stop working at the clinic she had to. I feel like Mr. Perez would judge everything that Mrs. Perez would so she had to be considerate on what she did. Pretty much she would do everything that her husband didn’t mind her doing and couldn’t do anything that her husband didn’t like.

On 04/13/2017 at 2:00 pm CL and CM reached out to UC’s mother Dilcia to discuss about minor’s journey and minor’s living arrangements in COO. As per Ms. Dilcia, minor was a normal child who started school at the age of 7y/o. Ms. Dilcia reported that minor ever had a problem with anyone at school either at her community. They were a family that supports each other. Approximately, 8 months ago Kenia was introduced to Luis who is a MS 13 member, through one of her friends at school. As per Ms. Dilcia, UC got a cell phone from her friend and hide in her underwear for the past 8 months and no one in the home noticed. Minor resided with her mother and father. Ms. Dilcia reported that UC met with minor in a soccer field in their community overnight.

Ms. Palmenta discussed with the evaluator the incident that occurred in October of 2013, at Drea’s school. She reported that she informed Mr. DaSilva that she would be picking the child up from school. She stated that he told her “no

When engaging in the dialogue with “Mrs. A”, I was constantly trying to remind myself that (1) it was not an interview, (2) I was trying to learn as much about myself as the other cultures, and (3) what I put into the project is what I would go out of it.

Children are very impressionable and tend to take on others’ opinions as their own, but as they grow older, they develop a greater understanding and perspective of the way things are and the way they should be. As adults, both Tan and Barrientos learned to accept and embrace the languages that previously embarrassed them. Barrientos immersed herself in her Mexican heritage and enrolled in many Spanish classes. With each enrollment, she faced yet another stereotype that came with being of Mexican ethnicity; her instructors thought she should already know Spanish since she was Latina. Barrientos is now determined to learn her native language. Tan has learned to love the way in

In the short story, “My Favorite Chaperone”, Maya’s family is a perfect example of a family having difficulty adjusting to American life. This life is a life of hope. Hope is what drives the story as you see with Maya. The American culture can be a hard culture to adjust to, Maya’s experience shows that.

Maya feels caught in a trap when the attorney asks her whether there were any sexual incidents with Mr. Freeman prior to the rape. She fears rejection from her family if she admits to the previous incidents, but

After moving to their new home, Cat and Maya go out to explore the town and eventually meet a guy named Carlos. The next day, Cat’s family is invited for dinner by the neighbors who apparently turns out to be Carlos’ family. The sisters find out about the Day of the Dead festival during the dinner, and Cat isn’t really pleased with it. For the next few days, the three children hang out with each other a lot and Carlos even gives the girls a ghost tour. Cat gets frightened and follows him as close as possible. To her surprise, she really does see the ghosts and realize that they do exist. With a little help from an orange soda, Maya and the ghosts become inseparable.

Although Latin American countries like Ecuador are defined as ?Third World? due to their economical level the lifestyle in Quito, for instance, follows more or less the pattern we know in this part of the world. People, drive to work, eat out and children go to school. However, this system functions with different values, customs or schedule. I spent four weeks in Quito at the Spanish Academy to take transfer credits in this language. During this time period I lived with an Ecuadorian family that is the parents and their two daughters, which allowed me to interact with them on a daily basis. The father, Ramon works in the United States and Marcella, 18, the eldest daughter attends college in Quito where she studies medicine. I found it easy to interact with Marcella because our age difference is not big and we are both college students. In addition she is a girl and we could discuss topics that are relevant to our gender, such as fashion or dates. The fact that this family educational level does not greatly differ from mine helped our communication, and shaped the messages we were exchanging. We were able to discuss many topics from politics to sociological and although they are from a different culture, our views were not radically opposites. However, the pace at which the Ecuadorian society develops made it difficult for me to explain them clearly

Mrs. Tijerina has a sturdy relationship built with her students. She has desire to see them succeed and flourish in the Spanish culture while mining high expectations. Mrs. Tijerina wants every single student to be involved or to give feedback. There was not a single student in the classroom that did not participate in discussion or did not have a chance to voice their opinion. Mrs. Tijerina treated every student with respect, and expected that she would be respected as well. If a student was talking out of hand, Mrs. Tijerina was capable to getting them to stop immediately. Since she has a strong desire for the students to excel, she predominantly speaks in