Internships, by Wilberto "Nino" Gill

T-shirt Design in Graphics Communication, by Laura Santana and Elva Rosario

This past week in Graphic Communications we started working on a new project. We have to come up with a design for a t-shirt that we would want to wear. It’s pretty exciting; it is a very good experience for us to do this project. We have to surf the web and find a cool old album cover graphic, or anything that we can come up with on our own that meets the criteria. This is just one of the things that we are working on now, but we have done others projects too, such as notepads, letterhead, business cards, calendars, and resumes, and we have the opportunity to add new ideas and come up with new designs/art pieces to make this project possible. We use programs like Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat, then we print on the Heidelberg machines or copier and we can create and use our imagination to choose colors and design new things everyday. In the future, we might be designing t-shirts that will be used schoolwide for gym uniforms, so stay tuned!

End the N-word NOW, by Rosa Montes

Jonathan McCoy: an 11 year old making a difference for our generation. He visited our school on Wednesday, March 24th 2010 and spoke to the students. He is an African-American who wants to end the use of the N-word. He knows that everyone , not only young ones, have the ability to leave that word aside and continue without using it. He spends his time going around the United States and has visited about 8 schools now to let the kids know and make them realize the n-word shouldn’t be necessary when speeking to a peer or just anyone. He made a rap and performs it everytime. The chorus is ”relax your lips on the n-word” and it’s so catchy you can still hear students around here singing it. He also believes the young ones doing all the sgg’n are disrespectful and very unecessary. McCoy has made an impact and has created a website for others to visit and sign a petition to end the end the n-word. To visit and sign his petition, go to www.petitionspot.com/petitions/endthenwordnow His speech inspired many students and touched them, it also made them stop using the n-word or limited most of it, including me.

Curriculum Writing, by Damarlin Genao

This year, teachers in Providence School District are doing curriculum writing in conjunction with the Dana Center and UCONN. Over the course of the school year, teachers involved in the curriculum writing are pulled from school anywhere from 15-20 days. They are writing curriculum so that all schools can be on the same page and to make sure the students are learning what they should be learning. The curriculum says what students are going to learn from grades 6 through 12. It includes the topics and books students will study and how information is paced. The curriculum writing takes place mostly here at PCTA because we have the nicest and biggest school in the city. So remember, when you see the meetings taking place, please act professional as you pass by in the hallway, because we are responsible for our own reputation.