MAST@FIU Biscayne Bay Campus

September 21-25, 2020

1 The Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all.

Please stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance

2 Thought and Word For the Week

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”― Haruki Murakami plaudit PLAW-dit Noun Definition an act or round of applause Examples For all of the accolades, and two Grammys she's won, this might be the song and album that finally earns McKenna the plaudits her vocals also richly deserve.

3 Weekly Calendar

September 21 (Periods 1,3,5) Start with Hello Week 22 (Periods 2,4,6) 23 (Periods 1,3,5) 24 (Periods 2,4,6) PTSA Meeting 6:00 PM See slide 8 ZOOM link 25 (Periods 2,4,6) Club Fair (Wear GREEN all day)

4 Bell and Lunch Schedule

5 SEPTEMBER 2020 21 Virtual College Fair for Seniors 24 PTSA Meeting 6:00 PM via Zoom 28 Teacher Planning Day

6 Why Start With Hello?

Loneliness is the overwhelming feeling of being left out and social isolation is not having frequent interactions with friends. Young people who feel this way may pull away from society, struggle with learning and social development, or choose to hurt themselves or others. Due to COVID- 19, all students can empathize with the feelings of isolation due to physical and social distancing. Start With Hello is an important social and emotional learning Wear GREEN on Friday, September 25 program to reintroduce students to the to help us Fight Loneliness! power of connecting and helping one Teachers please take screenshots of your another. class and submit the photo with the greatest number of supporters to Ms. Rowan by the end of the day.

7 Join us! Thursday, September 24, 2020 6:00 PM via ZOOM https://dadeschools.zoom.us/j/99312794505?pwd=cmVXcWIrSTBTa mMzNTFoS2dGdzVxdz09#success

8 The Fall 2020 Student Voter Education and Registration Campaign is being conducted completely online.

Senior High School students who meet the qualifications to register to vote can click on the “Register to Vote” banner that appears on the Student Portal. Click on the banner and you will be directed to the FLYER above which contains the list of qualifications one must have to register to vote.

https://registertovoteflorida.gov/home

9 To register: Email: gzohbcu4life@g mail.com for the Zoom link

10 https://www.fox-mar.com/virtualids

11 On the next slide, you will find 9 famous Hispanic and Latino Americans. Check them out!

12 Rigoberta Menchú

The Guatemalan indigenous woman Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Peace Prize for her work for the rights of indigenous peoples and reconciliation between ethnic groups. Indigenous organizations lobbied for her nomination, they wanted to draw attention to the fact that the European discovery of America had entailed the extermination and suppression of indigenous populations. Rigoberta grew up in a country marked by extreme violence. Several members of her own family were killed by the army, which was hunting down opponents of the regime. She herself fled to Mexico in the early 1980s, where she came into contact with European groups that were working for human rights in Latin America. With time, Rigoberta began to favor a policy of reconciliation with the authorities, and Norway served as the intermediary in negotiations between the government and the guerrilla organizations. A peace agreement was signed in 1996. Rigoberta Menchú herself became a UN Ambassador for the world's indigenous peoples.

Ms. Rowan saw her speak on 11/11/2017 at the Miami Perez Art Museum in Miami for a special PeaceJam event! Listen to her message: https://www.facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami/videos/public-talk- rigoberta-mench%C3%BA/1473703952710704 13 Frida Kahlo

Celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City to a German immigrant father and a Mexican mother. She contracted polio when she was young which caused her to walk with a limp. In 1925, Kahlo was traveling on a bus when the vehicle collided with a streetcar. As a result of the collision, Kahlo was impaled by a steel handrail, which went into her hip and came out the other side. She suffered several serious injuries, including fractures in her spine and pelvis. During her recovery, she began to paint, finishing her first self-portrait the following year. Kahlo was regarded as a feminist icon for her creativity and political activism. She was the first Mexican artist to be featured in the Louvre and Mexico has declared her works national cultural heritage, prohibiting their export from the country. https://www.fridakahlo.org

14 Luis Walter Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez was an inventor and experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for discovering subatomic particles through what physics calls “resonance states” and for developing a device and a method to make the discoveries possible. His work changed the way physicists viewed matter and helped America develop its nuclear technology. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1968/a lvarez/biographical

15 Laurie Hernendez Sixteen-year-old Laurie Hernandez became the third U.S.-born Latina athlete to make the U.S. women’s gymnastics Olympic team during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. The New Jersey native wowed fans with her energetic routines and powerhouse tumbling, helping the U.S. to take home the gold in the women’s gymnastics team competition.

16 Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente was one of the most beloved baseball players in the history of the sport thanks to his strong batting average and philanthropic efforts off the field. The Puerto Rican right fielder played 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates and was a Gold Glove Award winner for twelve consecutive seasons from 1961 through 1972. Clemente was delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua when his plane crashed. He became the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame after his untimely death in 1972.

17 Rita Moreno Rita Moreno was born in Puerto Rico in 1931. The actress, singer, and dancer began her career early, starring on Broadway in her teens before earning acclaim for her portrayal of Anita in West Side Story in 1961. That role earned her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first Latina to win the award. She would go on to be one of only 11 people to have received the four major entertainment honors—Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy awards. Her work has paved the way for other Hispanic actors and actresses in Hollywood.

18 Ellen Ochoa In 1993, Dr. Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on the nine-day STS-56 mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery. She would go on to venture to space four times, logging nearly 1,000 hours in orbit before returning to Earth to make history again, this time as the Johnson Space Center’s first Hispanic director and only its second female director.

19 Macario Garcia

Macario Garcia was born in Mexico in 1920 before his family immigrated to Texas in search of a better life. He grew up working as a cotton farmer before World War II broke out, prompting him to enlist. On November 27, 1944, García’s platoon was trapped by enemy fire in Grosshau, Germany. Realizing that his company could not advance because it was pinned down, Garcia went alone and destroyed two enemy emplacements and captured four prisoners. Despite being wounded himself, he continued to fight on with his unit until the battle was over. He became the first Mexican immigrant to receive the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration. Just a few years later he was granted American citizenship.

20 Jordi (George) Farragut

David Farragut (1801-70) Farragut was born in 1801 to Jordi (George) Farragut, a native of Menorca, Spain, and his wife Elizabeth (née Shine, 1765–1808), of North Carolina Scotch- Irish American descent, at Lowe's Ferry on the Holston River in Tennessee. He was an accomplished U.S. naval officer, who received great acclaim for his service to the Union during the American Civil War (1861-65). Farragut commanded the Union blockade of Southern ports, helped capture the Confederate city of New Orleans and provided support for General Ulysses S. Grant’s siege of Vicksburg. Farragut is best known for his victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, during which he commanded his fleet to ignore Confederate defenses in the harbor, famously proclaiming “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” https://www.nps.gov/articles/hispanics-and-the- civil-war.htm 21 Hispanic and Latino presence in the American Revolution Between 1779 and 1783, several Spanish troops provided aid to the Americans in their fight against the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War. One more notable case was Jorge Farragut, the Spanish lieutenant of the South Carolina Navy. He settled in Mississippi and was the son, David Farragut, who excelled in the American Civil War. Many Hispanics and Latinos emigrated to British colonies in the eighteen century. In the early nineteenth century, there was an influx of Spanish and Honduran immigrants to the United States due to civil unrest and war in their native countries.

According to the United States Census of 1790, which was the first census of the whole United States, there were 20,000 people of Hispanic and Latino origin living in the former British colonies in that year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_in_the_United_States#:~:text=and%20southern%20Montana.- ,Hispanic%20and%20Latino%20presence%20in%20the%20former%20British%20colonies%20of,end%20of%20the%20eighteenth%20century&text=Between%201779%20and%2 01783%20several,in%20the%20American%20Revolutionary%20War

22 The Hispanic Experience in the Civil War The Louisiana Tigers wore a variant of the French “Zouave” uniform, which could occasionally be seen on the Union side early in the war. The Civil War was fought by social and ethnic groups of all kinds. One of the largest ethnic groups that are often overlooked in the conflict is the Hispanic population. Heavily concentrated in Florida, Louisiana, and the areas north of Mexico, Hispanics played a large role in the Civil War. Most of these Hispanics lived inside the United States, and most of them sided with the Confederacy during the war since they belonged to states that seceded. In fact, one of the more famous Confederate units, the Louisiana Tigers, was formed from Hispanic and Creole soldiers from the New Orleans area. That’s not to say that all the Hispanics joined the Confederacy. Many Hispanics lived in southern California, which stayed loyal to the Union, and many more in the areas of modern day New Mexico and Arizona, which were then part of the territory of New Mexico. These Hispanics were heavily divided between North and South. Many Hispanics in these areas used to be Mexican, and were still bitter with the United States for the Mexican-American War and therefore sided with the Confederates. On the other hand, slavery had been abolished in Mexico and many Hispanics had no desire to become part of a nation that allowed it. The result was a lot of split loyalties and fierce fighting among the peoples in New Mexico.

Author Brian Whitenton Research more at: http://www.marinersmuseum.org

23 http://floridahispanicheritage.com

24 Uniform Policy- 2020-2021

Please click on the following link to order your school apparel: iUniforms 25 The Parent Academy (TPA) is committed to providing quality workshops to families on relevant topics. Beginning on September 22, 2020, weekly webinars will take place as follows: Tuesdays at 10 AM, 1 PM (and 7 PM first Tuesday ofeach month) in English. Wednesdays at 10 AM, 1 PM (and 7 PM first Wednesday of each month) in Haitian-Creole. Thursdays at 10 AM, 1 PM (and 7 PM first Thursday ofeach month) in Spanish. To register fora "TPA Live" ZOOM webinar, parents and caregivers must visit the TPA website at ParentAcademyMiami.com and click on the "2020-2021 Workshop Registration" image. The image is hyperlinked to a dynamic PDF document in three languages that will be updated frequently. Space is limited to 500 participants per webinar and registration closes 48 hours before each session. Once registered, confirmation and reminder emails will be sent to participants with the links and directions on how to join. For additional information or assistance, please email us at [email protected]

26 School Volunteer Program Office of Community Engagement – School Volunteer Program https://www.engagemiamidade.net/community-school-volunteers Contact info: 305-995-2995 or [email protected]

27 Health Tip of the Week Breaking ground in loneliness research

Much of what we know about the causes and effects of social isolation and loneliness comes from the groundbreaking research of the late John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D., former director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago and an NIA grantee. Dr. Cacioppo’s research found that being alone and loneliness are different but related. Social isolation is the objective physical separation from other people (living alone), while loneliness is the subjective distressed https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/social- feeling of being alone or separated. It’s isolation-loneliness-older-people-pose- possible to feel lonely while among other healthrisks#:~:text=Health%20effects%20of people, and you can be alone yet not feel %20social%20isolation,Alzheimer's%20disea lonely. se%2C%20and%20even%20death

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