UN Sustainable Development Goals

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Summarize the purpose of these goals in your own words.
2. Which of the 17 goals do you think is most important? Explain your answer.
3. Look up and briefly describe how the United Nations came about. 
4. Describe in your own words what "sustainable" means.
5. If there were no barrier to time nor money, which goal would you work to solve? Explain your answer.
6. Click on this link to learn more about why each goal matters and information about each goal. 
7. Look at the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in Spanish. List 8-10 words you understand from the Spanish images.

Girls Around the World

I recently posted about This is 18, a photo series from the New York Times that follows girls from various countries. Here are a few more resources where you can learn about girls around the world.

Girlhood Around the World is a series of articles about what life is like for a girl in a different country.

#15girls is a series of articles and radio news pieces that profile teenage girls around the world.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer one of the following questions in complete sentences based on these images.

• Skim the title of the articles and the summaries. List 5 things that you've learned/realized/wonder about as you preview the articles. 
• Select one of the articles or audio pieces and read/listen to it and summarize the article in 4-5 sentences. 
• Explain how your life would be different if you were in the situation that is highlighted in one of these articles. 
• Explain how your life is similar to the situation that is highlighted in one of these articles. 

This is 18

This is 18 is a photo series from the New York Times that follows girls from various countries. to highlight how being a young adult looks different around the world.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer 2 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these images.

• Check out the mixtape and listen to the songs - select your top 3 and explain why you liked them. What 
• View what they eat for breakfast and compare it to your breakfast. Which breakfast looks the most appetizing? The most different? Would you eat all of them? Explain.
• Read about Obdulia from Mexico. Summarize what you've learned about her. Find more information about her indigenous group and share what you learn.
• Read about their family traditions. What is a family tradition that you have?
• What is one thing you learn about a country, city or culture that you didn't know before?
• Scroll through the interactive and choose one girl to analyze carefully. What is something interesting you learn about her? What details draw you in? Explain.