May 10 – Week 1
It was very nice to meet you all today. I look forward to working with you and guiding you in the process of learning English and making books & zines. I’m very excited to see how your projects develop because we have some excellent ideas so far! I don’t want you to only focus on this group project but also an individual project that you’d like to make. This can be more personal, more artistic or creative and is an opportunity for self-expression. I do want it to be something that you’re interested in researching, creating, and putting together. For your individual project, you could draw, write, make poetry, take photographs, and explore any topic of your choosing.
Please remember to join the WhatsApp group, email Gia at
genriquez@queensmuseum.org if you’re not already added.
Group Project Topics:
Please let me know if your name is incorrect or not in the right group.
Food & Culture (Peru & Ecuador)
- Magaly
- Johanna
- Marleni
Immigration
- Nelly
- Maribel
- Andres
- Maria
- Maria
Health
- Mariela
- Yene
New York City
- Monica
- Ana
- Isabel
- Camilo
- Martha
Things for your team to consider:
- Teams, assigned sections, team roles
- Research
- Writing & translating (who is this book for?)
- art, pictures, photos
- Layout & format, order (how is it going to look?)
- Typed/handwritten
- Style & Tone (informative or creative writing?)
Book structure:
- Title & Cover Page, Authors
- Table of Contents (list of sections)
- Introduction- Why choose this topic? Why is it important?
- Resources – Places, websites, phone numbers, etc., to learn more or get assistance
- About the Authors – Who worked on this project? A little about yourselves
Individual Book Project – some suggestions:
- A Collection of drawings or a comic
- a series of photos on a particular subject
- A book using collage
- Poetry, creative writing like a short story or picture book
- Ideas, thoughts, questions, or something inspired by a subject
- A book about the museum, art that you’ve seen here, or OpEd
- A book about the park or things in the park
- A book about your neighborhood
- Experimental process books
Today’s Vocabulary:
- Welcome
- Greetings
- Salutations
- Good morning
- Hello – Hi – Hey – What’s up? – How’s it going?
- How are you?
- What is your name?
- My name is____
- Where are you from? (I am from ______)
- Zines (short for “Magazine”)
- Exquisite Corpse
- Surrealist / Surrealism
- “No peeking!”
- Zine (from Magazine)
- “Do it yourself” “D.I.Y.”
- Artist-made
- Printing
- Publishing
- Community
- Help
- Volunteer
- Learning
- Speaking
- Writing
- Collaborate
- Issue
- Topic
- Parenting
- Bullying
- Pollution
- Contamination
- Climate change
- Environment
- Vandalism
- Gentrification
- Architecture
- Landmark
- Public Space
- Borough
- Immigration
- Displacement
- Cost of living
- Deportation
- Rights
- Opportunity
- Cuisine
- Cooking
- Culture
- Workshops
- Culture
- Arts
- Restaurants
- Food
- Self care
- Healthcare
- Mental health
- Hotline
- Resource
- Website
- Information
- Research
- Title
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Author
