Celebration of Learning - Prose & Poetry

Karis Lim - Hero's Journey

"Hero’s Journey: The goal of this project was to write a Monomyth of our journey through quarantine during the Coivd-19 pandemic. This project allowed me to reflect on the challenges I’ve overcome, and how I used resilience to become stronger after the hardest part during quarantine."

"During the process of this project, I learned that my teacher never gives up on her students because she knows they are capable of succeeding. She is patient with her students when they have questions, and creates an environment in her classroom where everyone feels comfortable and confident."

"Specifically, I believe our school’s belief statement, “Everyone has the opportunity to become the greatest version of themselves” connects to my monomyth because I was able fix my bad habits of always procrastinating or not being optimistic by surrounding myself with people who radiate positive energy, which helped motivate me to keep going. Because they believed in me and kept me company, I was able to never give up and improve myself as an individual. "

"This past year, I was able to use online school to my advantage because I feel I was able to improve my study habits. I used to often procrastinate and not study for tests, but now I’ve realized the importance of studying with the time I’ve spent at home after school." - Karis Lim

Natalie Hao - English Honors Novella Slideshow

Honors Passion Project

"The goal of my Poetry Book was to share one of my passions, activism. The Poetry Book really shows my perspective on, what others might describe as, controversial topics. Along the way, I learned to look on both sides of a topic to make sure I am respecting others beliefs.

The goal of my Novella was to somewhat show my life in quarantine. My monomyth includes many aspects of my life or hobbies that I have picked up during quarantine. Along the way, I learned a lot about time management since during the time of this project I unexpectedly had many other assignments, but I got everything done in the end.

The belief statement that best represents my experience this past year is “Everyday is an opportunity to be the greatest version of myself.” I chose this belief statement to describe my quarantine experience because I have felt unmotivation and unproductivity at many times throughout this quarantine. This belief statement gave me motivation to really get stuff done throughout this past year." - Natalie Hao

Ophelia Barr - Untitled presentation

Honors presentation

"My goal was to share my experience through Covid as a middle school student. I learned how strong I could be, how responsible I am, and how hard-working I really could be. I want to express myself using creative writing so people can understand my emotions and what I am going through. I find it important that we all get time to write our feelings out, especially at this time."

"I used the honor values to remind myself what I am working for. I am doing this for myself and using the HONOR value such as, never giving up really helped me throughout the year. It showed me that my school understands the struggles students go through and using these beliefs that are created by the school adds a whole new connection."

"Some days it was hard for me to gain motivation to even open my assignments. I had to remember my HONOR values such as, never giving up honesty, and ownership. I had to remind myself not to give up and keep going even if I don’t want to do the assignment. I wanted to show honestly but showing that I’m responsible and take consequences for not doing my assignments. And show ownership that I’m owning how I feel and owning my actions."

"I mostly struggled with motivation because doing all of this by myself without a class around me to socialize with and get ideas from was very hard. I understood the value of independence and it helped me overcome the challenge that I am way stronger and way more creative than I thought I was. I’ve grown to have more confidence, independence, and responsibility. [One of our school's belief statements that really represented this year is] never giving up. This helped me the absolute most throughout the entire year. It really helped me gain the motivation and spark to keep going even when I was at my lowest. I think I truly figured out the true meaning of never giving up this year." - Ophelia Barr

Molly Huang -

"This is my hero’s journey through COVID-19. The goal was to bring a new perspective on including everyone and being open-minded to meet new people. People tend to only stick to the friends they currently have which results in other people to be shut out all the time. In my hero’s world people only stick with people that have the same ability level as them. High tiers carry so much responsibility while lower tier’s voices are never heard. I myself is still working to bring diversity among friend groups but, as long as we stay curious of people, love is endless.

I learned how much my teacher loved reading all of our stories and how it ties in with our own lives. Everyone needs a teacher to prove that all of us are still learning and instead of criticizing each other we should be celebrating everyone’s value. [Our school's HONOR value of being] open-hearted is connected to my story multiple ways. My characters realized that so much was going on inside their school without knowing. Having the courage to reach out to those who are struggling is very important.

At first I decided to do a simple story but, it took a lot of thinking and drafting to make sure this story was engaging and interesting to read. At the same time I wanted to make sure I include the message and the lessons I have learned in quarantine. I have realized so many things and met so many people with different backgrounds. I also learned that the reason I have so many responsibilities and endless work is because I want to make sure that the people around me are celebrated.

[Being] open-hearted is definitely the belief statement I relate to most during these past 2 years in quarantine. I really enjoyed talking to students that were never really noticed and heard. I learned so much about the people around me and why I should love the people around me." - Molly Huang

Sohee Han - Untitled presentation

"The goal for this assignment was to make it as good as possible and to finish it on time. Along the way, I learned to be patient with myself when struggling on typing something out." - Sohee Han

Santiago Velazquez - MY SUMMARY OF GEORGE ORWELL

"This assignment was to learn about the author of ¨animal farm¨. My goal was to learn about him and I think I know a lot about him. Along the way I learn some more tips about writing an essay. I learn a lot of tips and tricks when I do my work that my teachers told me about and some other important things to put and check in my work."

"My teachers told me to never give up on my work even in the hardest times." - Santiago Velazquez

Nalani Fuentes: Honors Poetry

"We were supposed to learn different formats of poems and what they mean. I only knew one of these so everything else was new to me! I tried to make it as something I like (which I did), and I got to see a new way I could write poems." - Nalani Fuentes

Michael Tjhang - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

"I’ve learn so many great poetry like Haiku poem, those were so interesting that I want to to learn more about it. I also learned literary devices like alliteration because I thought it would be a interesting concept that I would like to try on. For example,”Peter Piped Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.” Those are almost look like an initial rhyme." - Michael Tjhang

Josephine Ramos - Untitled document

"Other people have many different life experiences than you. And some people may look like they are doing alright but they are not."

"I put a lot of ownership in this work plus I think because it was one of my first works I had actually enjoyed doing it."

"I think the way I grew is in the way I write and how I look at things more differently." - Josephine Ramos

Isabel Gomez - PART I: ALLEGORY

"The goal was to basically understand what Allegory was about but it took a lot of reading and patience. I learned that it was easier for me to understand something when reading something it helps me understand more other then when watching a video, because im going at my own pace." - Isabel Gomez

Christine Zhang - My Hero's Journey

Honors Poetry

"My Hero’s Journey- To create a superhero story of your life through covid.

Poetry-To create poems, every week a new poem with a different format.

Both- I learned a lot more about myself when completing the assignment. I learned a lot about graphic design, and also animating google slides." - Christine Zhang

Carolyn Chung - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

"The goal of this project was to make a poetry book that consisted of many different types of poetry, such as Haikus, Couplets, and much more! Along the way, I learned much more about myself and what kind of person I really am. In a practical sense, I also learned how to write different types of poetry!"

"Mrs.Frank was very patient throughout the process. She’d explain every single detail, and would always give us positive feedback on our project."

"I believed in myself, and I never gave up, even though some poems were very confusing and hard to make."

"It took me a very very long time to get one of the lines in a poem. I was really confused and lost on what to put there. I was patient enough to keep working on it, and was eventually able to finish!"

"Although I didn’t grow much physically, I grew a lot mentally, since I was able to finish all of my work in time, despite the pandemic." - Carolyn Chung

Camron Gil - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"The goal of this work was to compare and contrast different points in the story. I learned how to look at many different details in little and big points in stories." - Camron Gil

Honors Poetry

"My goal was to make a poem book about my family and use different types of poem formats. I learned about different types of ways to write a poem and how much you have to put into writing a poem to make it sound smooth and make sense."

"[What I learned about my teacher through the process is that] she is very kind and understanding and wants the nest for her students. She wants us all to succeed and work hard."

"I struggle on staying caught up but other than that I think I did pretty good on finishing it. My teacher keeps leaving me reminders to finish because I was behind so I would spend 30 mins trying to finish what I can."

"I started to learn more about new things and I put more work into things I have accomplished and made my stuff even better." - Ayiana Gabriel

Aerin Anselmini - THE RUSSIAN GULAG FORENSIC REPORT

"I followed honesty because I cared about these assignments and got them done." - Aerin Anselmini

Stefanie Zuo - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"The goal was to write a compare and contrast essay and I learned that I am fairly good at it. I liked that I learned how to write a type of essay that I would do again in high school."

"[Our school values and beliefs] teach us to be honest whether we did our assignments or not. It also links to ownership since we need to be responsible for our work." - Stefanie Zuo

Emilee Virata - My Hero's Journey

"The goal for this was to tell my story and journey during covid. I learned to stop running away from my problems and to try to slowly face them." - Emilee Virata

Victoria Vasquez - Novella Slide Project

"My goal was to get good grades and to be a good student. I learned many things along the way, such as working under a bit of pressure and to stay organized." - Victoria Vasquez

Hailey Tran - MY SUPER HERO’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE YEAR OF COVID

"The goal of this project was to write a story about a hero’s journey. It had to show conflicts and how the hero dealt with the problems along the way to lead to a happy or not happy ending where the conflicts were resolved. Along the way, since I did write the hero’s story based off of my own experiences, I learned that communication is pretty important and you shouldn’t just assume things. Sometimes talking things out or taking a break from things is fine." - Hailey Tran

Tiana Tat - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

Tiana Tat - Novella Presentation

"The goal for the poetry project was to make a google slide with color, and write different poems for the slides. The goal for the Novella slide presentation was to write a hero’s journey novella that explains what my superhero has dealt with, what I experienced, and what I have learned during the past year of COVID. I’ve learned how to manage my time a little better and how to write different poems and a novella." - Tiana Tat

Matthew Nguyen - Novella Presentation

"This project is a monomyth based on myself and based around my experiences and lessons learned during COVID. My story is about a lesson I learned about the importance of family especially during times like these. Something I learned during this project was first, how to write and make a monomyth of my own from scratch. I also learned the importance of family. As I wrote my monomyth I had to basically relive through the events I was writing about and got to reinforce what I had learned back then."

"I think one way that our school’s HONOR values connected to my monomyth was because the story was about how I learned about the importance of family and always being able to rely on them. This can tie in with Open-Hearted, Honesty, and Respect because those are all things that I should be with my family if I want to be able to rely on them and show my appreciation for them." - Matthew Nguyen

Minh Lam - MY SUMMARY OF GEORGE ORWELL

"The goal was to write a summary of what I have learned about George Orwell. I learned who George Orwell is and what type of person he is along the way." - Minh Lam

Alyssa Kaitlyn Ko - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

"The goal was to learn more about my topic while creating poetry to help put people into perspective of those who go through mental illnesses. I learnt about many different mental illnesses and what those people live through." - Alyssa Ko

"I learned to communicate with my classmates in breakout rooms and figure out the right answers together." - Alisha Hsu

Ethan Hernandez - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"[Our school's values and beliefs] worked so much for me and i just never doubted on myself. They connected with me from just always believing that i can always be a better version of me. I've grown in a lot of ways to be a man and a lot of ways to be a better version of me. Everyday is a better day to be a better version of me because no matter how much homeworks and test i got a bad grade on ive always stepped up to and just keep working." - Ethan Hernandez

Cathy Gao - MY SUMMARY OF GEORGE ORWELL

"The goal is to understand the author and story more deeply. I learned about the story and how to write a better summary." - Cathy Gao

Justin Gamboa - HONORS English 8 Novella Project

HONORS Poetry Project-Justin Gamboa

Justin Gamboa - Charlie Gordon Journal Entry

"The goal of these pieces of work was to bring out my all and put my heart into them, and I did, and more! I learned a lot about allegory and even about myself! I learned more about my capabilities in writing, and it was a lot of fun!" - Justin Gamboa

Beyonce Felix- Honors Poetry

"The goal for this assignment was to write poems and maybe even poems that relate to us! I learned how to write different types of poems. Cinquains, Haikus, Bio poems, etc."
"Open-heartedness connected with my work. I think I had to have an open mind & heart to try new things and assignments that my teachers assign. I struggled understanding how to do a few of the poems but in the end I just pulled through and tried my best to do how I thought it was by asking my teacher!" - Beyonce Felix

Roman Cuellar - VOCABULARY

Xuwen Chen - MY SUMMARY OF GEORGE ORWELL

Xuwen Chen - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"The goal for the first link is to write a summary of George Orwell. I learned who wrote “Animal Farm”, and some background happened at that time."

"The second link is to write a compare and contrast essay about ”Ender's Game”. I learned how to write a compare contrast essay." - Xuwen Chen

Gavin Leone Bolanos - VOCABULARY

Javier Bahena - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

Javier Bahena - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Honors Poetry

"The goal of the project was to write whatever came to mind using different poem styles. One of the things I wrote about is the stress and loss of motivation kids have been expressing a lot during these times. It taught me the danger of not knowing you kids at all leading to irrational decisions when things go a little downhill for them."

"Ha well I'm a pretty big procrastinator and you can imagine the inevitable panic creeping down my spine of getting this done even though I had a nearly polished to perfection rough draft. This whole thing led to me leaving out my “passion” we had to state at the start of the project. And I said ya know what, why not put the thing down that's driving me to do this at such an unnecessary hour. PROCRASTINATING. I got it done on time in case you were wondering. It was very fun to make." - Nathan Arreola

Ysabella Yulo Honors Poetry

"The goal of our project was to deepen our knowledge of poetry and learn more about how to make a certain poem. What I learned along the way is that poems don’t always rhyme as people always say it does. It can have a rhyming pattern but it's not always every line, it can be every other line or have no rhyming pattern at all." - Ysabella Yulo

Chase Vong - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

"Making something big requires time and effort, but it is worth it." - Chase Vong

Therese Virata - My Hero's Journey

"The goal was to make through the school year with good grades, I learned along the way that in-person school was way more better and beneficial to my learning than online."

"I discovered a lot about myself, what talents I had and what I loved to do in life, as well as, as a learned I learned that I’m not good at every subject I’m given and so I shouldn’t put myself down for getting a bad result in homework or a test."

"I learned that my teachers are very hard working even if it is online and they take out education seriously."

"I had struggled a lot with laziness and complaining while I had work to do when I just wanted to relax, but I overcame it by telling myself to get up and that I could always relax later."

"I have grown a lot mentally and spiritually throughout the past year." - Therese Virata

Changchuchen Sun - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"My teacher is a cheerful person. And the way that she teaches us is very good, which made my English improve a lot." - Eleven Sun

Khin Yadi Soe - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"I’ve learned to be independent and not to get distracted by others... while doing my homework or class work." - Khin Yadi Soe

Agnes Senjoyo - ENDER’S GAME ARGUMENT ESSAY

"I learned that writing essays isn't my “specialty”, considering there’s a lot of brainstorming and just overthinking of what to put in an essay is definitely a lot to handle." - Agnes Senjoyo

My Passion By-Jennifer Sandoval

"The school beliefs connected to my work by doing my best on it. [The values] showed in my work because I will show honor by never giving up even if doing the poems was difficult. I struggled on doing some of the poems because some of them seemed very hard and complicated like the very last poem that I did on the project was actually the hardest for me. I grew by learning new things and new ways to do many things. Never giving up best represents my experiences this past year." - Jennifer Sandoval

Copy of Honors Poetry

Copy of Daniela Palafox - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

"The schools shared beliefs connected with my work because I did my best to fix my mistakes and to complete the assignment, which is never giving up, and being honest with myself of what I have to do to make it better. The one that best represents my experience in the past year is Never give up because even though I struggled I was able to overcome." - Daniela Palafox

Garrick Li - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

"I learned and practiced several forms of poetry, and it tested my creativity." - Garrick Li

Amanda Li - Honors Poetry Project

"As an individual, this project helped me remember all my favorite parts of music. I discovered that I was becoming too focused on being good at music, rather than taking the time to enjoy it. Music has so many aspects and genres, you’ll always be learning and hearing about it from other people. Everyone has a different viewpoint on it. I believe that through this past year, I have grown a lot in terms of adapting to change. Before I had a routine, but when the pandemic hit, I had to adapt to all the changes that happened. I believe “Everyone needs a teacher” represents my experience this past year very well. The pandemic was very scary when it first happened, and we didn't know much about it. However, as we got more information from medical professionals, everyone started to calm down and think rationally on they would do." - Amanda Li

Jacob Dagalea - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"This was the piece of work that I was mostly proud of, Because not only did I do pretty well, I also learned a lot from my mistakes from [communicating with my] teacher... I learned how organizing your work is very important and how to not slack off on your work." - Jacob Dagalea

DIRECTIONS FOR WHAT TO WRITE IN EACH PARAGRAPH TO COMPOSE YOUR COMPARE/CONTRAST ESSAY ON ENDER’S FIGHTS WITH STILSON AND BONZO USING THE BLOCK METHOD

Summer Yen - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

Hummer Xu - ENDER’S GAME ARGUMENT ESSAY

Jatin Yang - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Ariana Vega - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

"I would say never give up [was the belief statement that really stuck with me] because even though i would be stressed out about assignments and due dates, i did not give up because i wanted to feel good about myself after i completed and turned a assignment in on time." - Ariana Vega

Kevin Santos - Ender's Game Compare and Contrast

Kevin Santos - Charlie Gordon Journal Entry

"I discovered to know the perspective of being disabled so I can understand people on a new level and their struggles." - Kevin Santos

Jazmin Lopez - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Veronica Loh - Hero's Journey

"I really connected with the value of never giving up, because there were definitely some times where it seemed like I wouldn’t finish, but I just needed to push through and not give up." - Veronica Loh

Celeste Pimentel - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

MY HERO’S JOURNEY

"The goal was really to relate the things that happened in my covid life into a fantasy world. I really love anything that has to do with fantasy so writing this allegory was very exciting. I learned that even if I’m not the best at writing it’s easier to write if it involves my life. :) I discovered how I really feel about quarantine and my feelings. My emotions have always been a mess but after writing my allegory it was very easy to describe my feelings." - Ariel Liu

Arthur Liang - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Arthur Liang - A Journey Through the Year of Covid; A Monomyth

"Our schools' shared beliefs helped me especially during my Novella Project. One of our beliefs is to always be the best version of yourself. I incorporated that into the novella in the form of the dreamer, the perfect version of yourself. The dreamer was also a core part of the story so this belief connected to my novella a lot. The HONOR values connected with my work in the novella project because another one of the morals in the story was to never give up and also to improve yourself every day. The hero in the story faces many challenges during online school because it is such a new environment, so he needs to use the Never Give Up honor value to push through.

I have grown because I think covid has opened my eyes to the fact that anything could happen in an instant and you need to be prepared to adapt in order to achieve your goals. The Covid situation was completely different and it would be hard to get used to. It has taught me that even when the circumstances are dire, you need to be able to adapt and push through.

I think Never Give Up represented this year the best because covid completely changed our lives and it was probably a once in a lifetime experience. It was tough because we were suddenly thrown into a new environment, but in order to get through the year we had to Never Give Up." - Arthur Liang

"I FINALLY HAVE GOOD GRADES!!!!!!" - Ruben Leyva

Seravin Huang - Charlie Gordon Journal Entry

"The goal was to write a journal entry from the perspective of Charlie Gordon. We were supposed to make up a journal entry from a book we read and put his feelings and a scenario of why he left New York. I learned that the way we perceive people is so different from how they perceive themselves. Being kind and considerate is the best thing you can do." - Seravin Huang

"Never give up because I didn't give up on my work even though it's through my computer." - Andres Aguilar

Shirley Zheng - Novella Project

"[I realized] how difficult it is to write with writers block."

"[One of our school's belief statements that helped me most this year is] never giving up because this year was tough." - Shirley Zheng

Lucas Wang - Untitled presentation

"[One of our school's belief statements that helped me most this year is] never giving up because it's been a rough year with the online thing." - Lucas Wang

"The work is Honest and I take Ownership for it. I didn’t Give up, and was open to putting Respect into it." - Diego Velazquez

Danna Valentina Vargas - HONORS NOVELLA PROJECT SLIDE PRESENTATION

Copy of Honors Poetry

"By doing this work I learned a lot about myself. I learned to give credit and be proud of my accomplishments. I discovered that I can make a lot out of simple stuff if I put a lot of effort in it. I also discovered how hard it is for me to be proud of myself and my accomplishments. With my work I learned that I should own my accomplishments and notice how much I’ve done this year and be proud of myself. Ownership and respect are two values that represent my experience throughout this year because I've learned to own my work and respect myself." - Danna Valentina Vargas

Joseph Tolentino - My Hero's Journey

"I am hardworking and I never give up. I discovered that I can pursue and go for my dreams. [Our school's shared beliefs] really helped me look back at my actions and think about goals!" - Joseph Tolentino

Kalea Tan - HONORS POETRY PROJECT

Kalea Tan - Charlie Gordon Journal Entry

"The goal was to show my passion for something, expressing it through writing poems. I learned that I enjoy writing poems a lot and the types of poems that people use. The goal for the journal entry of Charlie Gordon was to practice using imagery and descriptive words. I learned that I actually use imagery a lot in my writing without realizing."

"I’ve grown to manage my time better. I’ve also grown to spend and get used to my brother’s constant talking when I am at home." - Kalea Tan

Alexandra Nuno - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Conel Kim - Untitled presentation

Copy of Honors Poetry

"The goal of the first project was to create a compilation of poems. I learned more about myself while I was working on this project.

The second project I worked on was a novella. The goal of this project was to write a monomyth following the template of A Hero’s Journey." - Conel Kim

J'Adrian Jones - ESSENTIAL QUESTION

J'Adrian Jones ENDER’S GAME ARGUMENT ESSAY

"I discovered that if I pay attention and try I can overcome my weakness of essay writing." - J'Adrian Jones

Anthony Baez - Novella Project

"I had a part in my story where we had to Never Give Up (an HONOR value) which is connected to our school’s core values. I had struggles with time because I had 3 other projects to do at the time so that was tough. I was able to finish all of them on time and get good grades. I have grown mentally from being shy and not confident to trusting everything that I do that it is the best I can do. Never Give Up and Honesty have helped me a lot with the past year because I have been through a lot. But even though times have been tough I am still hanging on." - Anthony Baez

Eashal's Honors Poetry

Eashal Ali - Charlie Gordon Journal Entry

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