Staples High School

Sulzycki 2A 2018-19

Final Exam Performance Assessment

Religion of America

My piece is about the rituals and symbols that make us American compared to the past to the modern day. The image is to compare the things we think of when someone says the word America, and how we treat them as symbols of our own identity, and the way we worship them.

Your Experience is Everything

Using audio of interviews to discuss how diverse Americans adapt and view the reason they believe means to be American.

My American Creed - Liberty and a Better Life

My American Creed is closely tied to my family history on my mom's side. My grandparents immigrated from Ukraine to Canada for a better life, and then my mom came to the U.S. for college and a better life.

Immigrating Creeds

I discuss how my parent's influence with immigrating to America has influenced their American Creeds and how that influenced mine as well.

The Story of an Orzeł Biały

My American Creed consists of letting life take its course, working hard, and always staying connected to my roots and my family. In this video all three parts are going to be demonstrated,showing how my american creed ties into my family.

My American Creed

Being an individual that is quite diverse, I have been profoundly influenced by my parents' experiences.

From Discrimination to Immigration; My Jewish American Creed

In order to understand how my family has affected the way I view my own American creed, I conducted interviews with my mother, father, and grandmother. Ultimately my goal was to figure out, connect, and contrast on how my family history has affected my American Creed.

How my family shapes my American Creed...

My project, looking through the lens of my father's American story, focuses on how my family has shaped my view of the American identity.

My American Creed

This is a video about my own American Creed and how it has been influenced by my family and their experiences when immigrating to America.

American Creed

My project represents how my Hispanic ethnicity from my parents influences myself as an American and my story of who I am.

American Creed Project

How my family and community has shaped my understanding of what it means to be an American

Union

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche You are yourself, along with others you make a community. Each part, with their histories, are equally as important.

My American Creed

Exploring my family history through art in order to explain my American Creed

American Creed - Diversity

My American creed is to be a real American, one needs to live to their full potential and strive to be the greatest they can be. My interview with my parents, about their different cultures, helps me understand how they are the American they are today.

Integration of Cultures

My piece explores diversity within America and how I integrate my culture and American culture into my life. This has helped me balance between different aspects of each while learning that the true definition of an American is the blending of differing backgrounds.

More responses from Staples High School

Surprise Me

Past to Present

My piece is a response to the second invitation, "How does your family & community history connect to your American creed?" After research and deep self-reflection, I have determined what my own American Creed is. It revolves around American principles and my family.

America: Religious Freedom is a Right

My American Creed is the importance of religious freedom. It is something America offers that gives individuals a sense of security.

How does your family & community history connect to your American creed?

My American Creed is about both sides of my family immigrating from both Italy and Russia.

The Myth of the American Dream

The illusion of the American Dream has misleadingly lead minorities into a mindless society. In America, we are known as the land of opportunity and success. By us remaining ignorant to the inequalities that still exist, we have allowed thousands of innocent lives to be ruined.

The Hand Me Down That I Will Never Outgrow

I expressed my ideas by writing about my family’s work ethic and personal connections to patients and customers. This helps one become successful not only in the business world, but in life. My family’s morals helped me developed a creed for my own.

How my Grandfather influenced my view on American Creed

My grandfather worked his way from the bottom to achieve success, and his experiences serve as the basis of my American Creed

Unity in the United States

My response to the question "How can you express your American creed through action?" comes in the form of an essay. My goal is that others will be able to apply this writing to their own lives in order to make the United States truly together as one.

Education for kids

Since the kids are the future of this planet, why not educate them from a young age. With the basics of education and the opportunity to proceed to a higher education, the future would be filled with successful men and women.

My American Creed

My American Creed is my support system because of the way it helped shape the young adult I am. This system consists of my family and teachers. It is my American Creed because of how much value they have to me.

Community Through Education

The American Creed by using educational differences to build a community.

America: The Dark Side of the Dream

My essay is regarding our country's foundation of the American Dream, and how it eventually influenced my family to emigrate to the States, even in the present day of unjust immigrant laws.

Views of Rushmore

This image showcases the different views of the American creed and the difference between how diverse and non-diverse Americans see it.

More responses about "community" and "family"

Surprise Me

My American Creed: Family and Service

It is about how my community, family, and I help the community and how we help others and how I think we can help those who are in need.

America Creed

We started building communities where people feel comfortable and are able to be themselves without being judged by their ethnicity, history or background.

The Value of Family

Does the amount of value you place on your family alter with the knowledge of ancestral background? For me, the two are unrelated, but I interviewed my family as well and realized it's not where you came from, it's where you're going; experiences are more meaningful than history.

Immigration Travel Processes

Immigration has changed since Ellis Island travelers first started coming over to America. Today immigrants risk everything to find a safe place to stay. When Ellis Island travelers came over they came for work and to live the American dream.

My American Creed: Family and Service

It is about how my community, family, and I help the community and how we help others and how I think we can help those who are in need.

My Family's Goals

Growing up in affluent town does not expose you to much but when you examine your whole family you can begin to understand what makes you and what goals have been passed down through your family.

How Family History Connects to My American Creed

The Stories of how my family's achievement have helped to get me where I am today.

My American Creed

Summary: This poem is about how my family has served as Americans and as members of the community and how we plan to keep serving as Americans.

My American Creed

My piece is about how I believe if you’re determined, you don’t have to be born in America to achieve the American Dream.

Rebuilding Detroit

For years, Detroit was one of the lowest economic ranking cities in the U.S. Now, it's on the rise and it's giving many Americans hope for growth in the community.

From Discrimination to Immigration; My Jewish American Creed

In order to understand how my family has affected the way I view my own American creed, I conducted interviews with my mother, father, and grandmother. Ultimately my goal was to figure out, connect, and contrast on how my family history has affected my American Creed.

Biological Family? Perhaps not

What do you believe in? I believe in a sense of community. In this article I will be talking about how my community has helped me become the person I am today.

Unity In Community

When anyone looks at America, all they might see is the polarization between each person and the problems that arise. This poem artfully phrases the most important questions in order to truly dissect what it means to be American.

Family, Community, Service, Education, and Religion

I have created a presentation based on my family's American creed. After extensive and in-depth conversations with my parents, I have learned a lot about my family history and I am excited to share.

Elements of an American identity

Out of the document, I focused on Condoleeza Rice, David M. Kennedy, and Joe Maddon who shared their understandment of the American creed.

4th Generation American

Immigration has been a heavy topic for the last few years and it is something that is very important to me. I think that America should continue to try to be a place where most people can come and have a better life.

What is Your American Creed?

My American Creed is a promise to myself and everyone else I am around, that I will stand strong for my beliefs and always remember my community.

My American Creed

To me, being an American is my sense of community, my opportunities, and my individualism. Being an American is to overcome. More importantly to overcome as one, united nation.

American Creed through the community

Joe Maddon's idea was my inspiration and from it i develop a community festival. The festival would allow all cultures and asks that each culture be prepared to express itself in different ways.

Family, Community, Service, Education, and Religion

I have created a presentation based on my family's American creed. After extensive and in-depth conversations with my parents, I have learned a lot about my family history and I am excited to share.

American Creed

Having trust and respect in your community will make the whole community progress. That relationship between everyone in your community is the key for the progress and will keep towns from falling.

Family and American Creed

My American creed is influenced by my family and the communities that I consider myself to be apart of. I believe that family and community history play some sort of part in one's American creed, whether that be a big or small part.

Aspiring Americans

I'll be illustrating my American creed through my dzi dzi (grandpa in Polish) along with inspiring individuals who contributed to the documentary American Creed. My creed is a diamond whose facets are education, nature, and governmental awareness.

Perseverance and Our American Creed

This explains how perseverance is a key topic in our American creed.

Writing Our Future: American Creed is part of the National Writing Project’s family of youth publishing projects, all gathered under the Writing Our Future initiative.

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