For my Capstone project, I created a collaborative mural that helps brighten the walls at our new school building. I came up with multiple ideas like doing a mosaic tile mural but due to time constraints I landed on doing a much simpler mural. I also had to come up with multiple sketches for my mural taking heed to the feedback that was given. I did have a couple of setbacks when completing the project like having to change mentors. But I’ve learned to push through them and come up with a solution and continued working on my mural. I traced the tree with a projector to create perfect lines so I could paint over them. I also made stencils of the leaves for the tree by using the cricut machine. It took me three days to complete the trunk of the tree. Then after spring break, I had the senior class start to paint their leaves. Several changes were made in the beginning due to different trials and errors when it came to having the seniors paint . But what was once an empty boring wall now has a mural of a tree with beautiful, colorful leaves that the Senior 2023 class will leave behind in SLA history.

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Ryan: Als, Hilton. “Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision.” The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2020, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/toni-morrisons-profound-and-unrelenting-vision

This article is written to eulogize Morrison who has recently passed away but it also gives a recap of her debut novel and does so in a way that shows the feminist perspective. 3rd wave feminism not only cares about the needs of women but acknowledges the privilege that white women enjoyed during the previous two waves this article acknowledges that when stating “Not that she ever looks in a mirror. She knows what she’d find there: judgment of her blackness, her femaleness, the deforming language that has distorted the reflection of her face. ” This quote shows that being a woman was hard during this time but being a black woman was impossible.

Jason: The article shows all the different versions of feminism in the Bluest Eye. “At its core, The Bluest Eye is a story about the oppression of women. The novel’s women not only suffer the horrors of racial oppression, but also the tyranny and violation brought upon them by the men in their lives.” While reading this book, I constantly struggle with picking out facts and details from the writing just because it’s so different from the books I’ve normally read. The article helps me see things that I missed and makes me realize all the different versions of feminism that are present within this book. It’s very insightful and really makes it a lot clearer how women struggle in this book and what they’ve had to go through during their day-to-day lives just to survive.

Daija: Als, Hilton. “Toni Morrison’s Profound and Unrelenting Vision.” The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/toni-morrisons-profound-and-unrelenting-vision.

This article goes over the whole book and gives people a summary of the book and Toni Morrison’s life before the book. In the article talks about the themes of the book like beauty. In the article the talk about Pecola’s relationship with the women upstairs “She loves to listen to these women’s stories because, despite the demands of their work, they are free: free to love whomever and spend their money however they like.” I think this shows more insight into society and how even though these are very nice people and care for Pecola more than her real family does, they are deemed as bad because they are sex workers.

Campbell: Morgan, J. (2021, October 5). How white feminism threw its black counterpart under the bus. The New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/books/review/kyla-schuller-the-trouble-with-white-women-a-counterhistory-of-feminism.html?searchResultPosition=8

This article highlights the lack of intersectionality in feminism that is presented to Black women. The same intersectionality or lack thereof is pointed out by Polly Breedlove when asking for her money but receiving advice instead. “But later on it didn’t seem none too bright for a black woman to leave a black man for a white woman. (120) Like Polly’s boss the white feminists of the past had a blindspot on black women when working on the progression of women which gave a disadvantage to their fight for equality. This is further expanded upon by Kyla Schuller In her book THE TROUBLE WITH WHITE WOMEN.