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Introduction and Reflection:<\/h2>\n

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The documentary unit challenged students to creatively and fairly portray a significant subject in the community. By gathering primary and secondary sources students will develop a distinct perspective on their subject\u2019s significance in the community. This research will then be put into a research paper in English that will later be translated into a magazine article for digital media and a specific art form depending on elective, in my case a documentary film.<\/p>\n

Gentrification. That was the basis of my film in the beginning. My group and I had to somehow take this large scale concept and turn it into a local issue to be discussed in a short sub-ten minute film. I’m not gonna lie, when this project started I had no idea what gentrification was, or so I thought. I was not familiar with the word gentrification, but growing up between Baltimore, Annapolis, and DC, I was fully aware of the symptoms this term refers to. Jordan Sharkey, one of my partners, is the daughter of the executive director of a school in East Palo Alto that aims to diversify and equalize education. From the first interview, I was hooked and I spent the next month or so obsessively finding out everything I could.<\/p>\n

While narrative is still the unit  I am most proud of, I cared about this unit just as much yet in a totally different way. I was no longer focused on creating the prettiest film and the most dramatic story. I was invested in exploring this topic and with that growing as a citizen. It is one thing to learn about something in a social studies class, and it is one thing to read articles or watch videos, but it is a totally different experience, sitting down and talking to someone who is directly affected by an issue often indirectly referenced and tiptoed around. In English, we were asked to make an extensive research paper based on our topic for our elective classes. We then had to do a lot of research to gather secondary sources, in order to develop a position on the topic.<\/p>\n

*If you click on the image below, you will be taken to a copy of my paper<\/p>\n