Vista Language Arts Lessons

  Fernando Valenzuela -Born November 1, 1960 (Navojoa, Mexico) -Died October 22,2024 ( Los Angeles, CA 1. Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher. 2. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball seasons, from 1980 to 1991 and 1993 to 1997. 3. While he played for six MLB  teams, his longest tenure was with the Los Angees Dodgers. 4. Why was Fernando Valenzuela so important?    Valenzuela became a star pitcher with the Dodgers in l981, igniting Fernandomania and giving Mexican Americans a hero that is still revered today. 5. Was Fernando in the Hall of Fame? Valenzuela was one of the most dominant players of his era and a wildly popular figure in the l980's, although he was never elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 6.Is Valenzuela a legend? The Dodgers named Valenzuela as part of the "Legends of Dodger Baseball" in 2019 and  inducted him into the team's Ring of Honor in 2023. 7.What is Valenzuela's illness? Valenzuela  was dia...

                                                  La Tormenta 1994 -Gronk born in 1954 in East Los Angeles, California, was born Glugio Nicandro, is a Chicano  painter, printmaker, and performance artists. 2. His work is collected by museums around the country including the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 3. Gronk was born in Los Angeles to Mexican-American parents and was raised primarily by his mother. 4. Gronk started creating things at a young age. His cites pop culture as a source of  inspiriation. 5. Another artistic influence on Gronk was his uncle, who would frequently draw with him at home after work or on weekends. 6. Among other influences, foreign films which he generally watched in Santa Monica, are  mentioned as his influence. 7. He was fascinated with the larger world and concepts that many of the foreign films from Russia, France an...

  Dali and his pet ocelot Persistence of Memory 1931 Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali (May 11, 1904- Jab 23, 1989 Figueres Spain 1, Salvador Dali was a Spanish "surrealist" artist renowned for his techincal skill, precise draftsmanship and the striking and bizarre images in his work. 2.Persistence of Memory (La Persistencia de la memoria) is a painting by Salvador Dali that was done in 1931.  It is considered on of the most famous contemporary paintings. 3. The paintings was first shown in 1932.  It has been in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City  since 1934.  4. The painting typifies what critics call "surrealism".  It is easy to recognise and is often used in  popular culture.  5. The painting was first to have a melting pocket watch, called a "soft watch".  Some people thought that the soft watch was inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. 4/ Dali said that the watches were not inspired by the the theory of relativity...

  The Day of Frida and Diego's Marriage- August 21, 1929 1.  Frida was petite, barely twenty-two years old when she joined her life with Diego, a huge, fat  man of forty-three years old, divorced, and a communist. 2. The party took place in a house in Coyoacan owned by a great friend of the couple:  Tina Modotti. 3. To everyone's surprise, the main dish of the banquet: black mole from Oaxaca was prepared by Lupe Marin who was Diego's ex-wife, the same one who had starred in several scandals due to her jealousy. 4. In addition to the black mole, there were a series of Mexican dishes to delight the guests' palates:stuffed chiles, pozole, rice, capirotada and wedding cake, to drink: pulque and  tequila. 5. The bride's mother was heartbroken, she had done everything possible to avoid that  wedding, she who had put so much effort into her daughter's education. 6. Frida's mother could not understand how a Catholic girl could marry a man who was an atheist and a c...

  Frida Kahlo  (July 6, 1907 -Frida Kahlo is among the most famous Mexican artists of the 1900s.  She was known especially f her disturbing style and her many unsmiling self-portraits. -Frida's artwork often included skulls, daggers, bleeding hearts and her personal exotic pets and  fantasy animals. - The pain Kahlo expressed in her paintings came from her own life.  Her paintings became  chronicles of her life experiences with her family and her husband the famous  Mexican artists Diego Rivera. -Frida was born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico on July 6, 1907.  She suffered from the disease of polio at age 6 and walked with a limp  the rest of her life. - At 18 she was nearly killed in a bus crash.  Her injuries were so severe that she spent many weeks in the hospital.  She felt physical pain throughout her life. -Kahlo began painting self-portraits while in the hospital.  Once she was well, she showe...

Flower Power was a slogan used during the late `1960's and early 1970's as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War 1. What is the flower power slang ? -The phrase stemmed from the flowers the iconoclasts often wore to demonstrate their pacifism. -Devotees were flower children or flower people, hippies were also know as the flower-power generation. -The noun youthquake also appeared in the mid-1960's to further describe the movement. 2. What is the concept of flower power? -Coined in 1965 by acclaimed poet and voice of his generation Allen Ginsberg, "flower power"  was used to inspire a movement in which anti-war demonstrators focused on positive values such as peace and love instead of brute force. 3. What is an example of flower power? -Hippies embraced the symbolism of Flower Power by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors.  -Hippies were often seen in public wearing flo...