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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 By Diana Diaz
 Flyers promoting seniors' "Doc Your Block" projects - Vincent Tandoc
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Throughout the past three years, seniors have taken on challenges in
the community to complete their Doc Your Block projects. While the
students are facing the difficulties of organization and procrastination
that occur every year, this year’s seniors are also dealing with the
absence of English teacher Mary Clair Sonneman who is on maternity
leave.
At
the beginning of the year, Sonneman and the seniors were not sure if
there was going to be a presentation for the Doc Your Block projects
because Sonneman was going on maternity leave in February. The students
decided to go ahead with presentations, but now that Sonneman is on
leave and English substitute teacher Roberto Inclan has taken over, some
seniors said they feel that Sonneman’s absence has made the project
harder because she was experienced with Doc Your Block.
Senior Genesis Nunez said one of the the hardest parts is not having Sonneman to help.
“It’s
kinda of harder without her, for the simple fact that Mr. Inclan
doesn't take his time like Mrs. [Sonneman] did during class, and because
she wasn't sure if we were even going to continue with [our] Doc Your
Bloc, so we were delayed with the entire project,” Nunez said.
Senior
Elyssa Hobdy, whose project is about safe sex and parent-teen
communication, also said that Sonneman’s absence has made it more
difficult.
“I think it is a little more difficult because she knows the ropes, but Mr. Inclan is a great teacher,” Hobdy said.
Rumors
had been circulating that there was going to be an extension on
deadlines for the Doc Your Block projects. Inclan said he was thinking
about extending the project, but he decided not to, because it would
have not been fair to the students who have given all their effort since
day one.
“I
think some students are doing a great job. I am proud of the effort
they put in. Some students are learning how hard a project like this
is,” Inclan said.
He said that students can continue on working with their projects, but their papers were due April 8.
“It will only affect their grade if they don’t complete what they set out to do,” Inclan said.
Inclan said he thinks it is a great project and he hasn’t seen anything like it at other schools.
“It is a good opportunity for students to become adults and care about adult things,” Inclan said.
Some
seniors faced other obstacles in completing their projects. Hobdy said
that finding a schedule where all the group members were available was
challenging for her group. Hobdy and her group still have to complete
their assembly, in which they will have guest speakers, give out
condoms and teach their audience how to put one on. In their
presentation, they will encourage communication between parents and
teens.
“It’s not difficult, just time-consuming,” Hobdy said.
Senior
Ryin Stanberry, whose topic is about love being the source of conflict,
said that her group is not done with their project.
“Working with friends doesn't help because you won’t work on your project and will talk about other things,” Stanberry said.
Stanberry and her group mates are making a documentary about
students’ - s, romantic relationships, relationships between
parents and fatherless children, and how all these factors bring
conflicts to society. Stanberry and her group will be presenting their
project to the senior class.
“I
feel like relationships are the main source of what goes on in our
society. There is a lot of abuse and pregnancy and a lot of fatherless
children, both boys and girls,” Stanberry said.
Nunez,
whose project is about depression, said that her group is not done
because they were procrastinating, were disorganized and didn't have a
lot of class time to discuss the project. Nunez and her group are doing a
slide show about depression and having two guest speakers, a group
member’s mother and social studies teacher Robert Donnelly at the
presentation. They are also going to create masks reflecting how people are feeling.
“I
thought it was interesting, especially because the topic has not been
done, and a lot of people aren’t aware on how serious it is to be
depressed,” Nunez said.
Senior
Julian Isidro, whose project is about the the current state of the
economy, said his group is halfway done with their project and are still
discussing what they are going to do for the class seminar. He said the
hardest part was organizing the project.
“We chose it because it was never explored and it’s interesting.”
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