Week 7 at ACHS

This week at ACHS students finished discussing culture. Students discussed how their own cultural backgrounds impact their experiences in the classroom. Students then discussed how culture relates to the classroom and what type of classroom culture they would like to see in their YESS classes. This week YESS students also had the opportunity to attend a field trip to the Sie Film Center in Denver to see a screening of one of the films that was featured in CineLatino, a film festival celebrating Latino cinema. YESS students attended a screening of "Clever", a short film documenting the life and work of Gerardo Lopez. As the director of Homies Unidos Denver, Gerardo does youth gang intervention work after he himself left the gang scene in LA to start a new life in Denver. Students had the opportunity to participate in a Q&A after the film with the director, Alan Dominguez as well as with Gerardo.