My Breaking Through Culminating Project
For my culminating project I chose to do a sculpture of Panchito. Panchito is the main character in the book Breaking Through. Through out the book you can see Panchito becomes I believe you can say a bit more self confident in himself. In the begining he would always feel insecure due to the fact that he was here in the United States as an immigrant. Unfortunatly like any other immigrant who gets caught, he was sent back to Mexico. In Mexico he got the oportunity to get papers & be legal in the US. That was a big relief for him and it was also the beggining of where the doors became to open up to him. Once when he was in school, he started becoming more opened up in class. There was ond time where his classmates & him were going to do some kind of project & he brought up the idea that he should immitate Elvis Presley singing one of his songs. At first his classmates thought it was a joke but later they found out he was serious & said that it would be great to do it. Later in high school, he became student body president & leader of a club there was after school. He wouldn't had been able to become all this if he did not have self confidence. He was also very determined when it came to school related things. He would set goals for himself and do anything to accomplish them. He would constantly find ways how to study while he worked so he would not stay behind his studies. He was also very confident that when his counsler Mr. Penny told him to apply to scholarships for college so he can be a teacher like he has always wanted to be. He did all he could to have the best grades in school. He was very self confident that he was going to make it to college especially after he went on a field trip to Cal Poly.