High School
Brandon's favorite class includes learning and playing multiple sports.
What is Team Sports?
Brandon really enjoys watching basketball and loves his hometown. This is his favorite sports team.
Who are the Denver Nuggets?
Staying home and being less social. Not seeing friends anymore and a change from in person to virtual school. These are the effects from this.
What are the effects from Covid?
Brandon will be staying in state. The mascot is a Ram. This is the college he will be going to.
What is Colorado State University?
Troy and Rose have such an up and down relationship throughout the play. This eventually causes them to split up. Seeing how they end up gives Brandon this biggest takeaway from Fences.
What is how important family is?
Brandon likes to be social and hangout with others. This is his favorite thing about high school.
What is all the friends he made?
Brandon's favorite thing to do is watch his hometown basketball team. This is his favorite athlete.
Who is Nikola Jokic?
Brandon likes the feeling of familiarity. He prefers to be around people he knows. This is Brandon's biggest reason for which college he will attend.
What is having friends going there?
Brandon plays ultimate frisbee with him. He also attends Chaparral. His initials are TM. This is Brandon's college roommate.
Who is Tyler Manuello?
Rose always put Troy before herself. Later she regrets those choices. She doesn't ever get a chance to do what she wants to do. This is what Brandon learned from Rose in Fences.
What is to always try and complete your dreams?
It is such a big life change to be finished with high school and to continue onto the next chapter. This is the feeling Brandon has at the end of his senior year.
What is he's ready for the next chapter but at the same time nervous about what the future holds?
Brandon loves to play sports with his friends in his free time. They play a sport on a court with 10 people. This is what they play.
What is Basketball?
While playing baseball, Brandon's knee popped. He needed surgery to remove floating cartilage. This is the injury Brandon sustained.
What is dislocating his kneecap?
This choice will expose Brandon to a wide variety of classes in finance, accounting and marketing. This is Brandon's college major.
What is Business Administration?
In the music in Hamilton, there are many different instruments that are needed to create a song. In life, there are many different choices that come together to decide how your life goes. This is Brandon's comparison between music in Hamilton and in life
What is every little detail matters and adds together to make the final or big piece?
There have been many changes to Brandon while in high school. Brandon's biggest change from freshman year to senior year includes believing in himself.
What is gaining confidence in life?
This sport uses a disc and is similar to football. This is the sport that Brandon plays in high school.
What is Ultimate Frisbee?
During the pandemic, Brandon's mom's mom suffered from a Covid infection and then a pulmonary embolism. This was Brandon's hardest emotional time.
What is losing his grandmother?
Brandon is ready for a completely new chapter and a different living experience. He is ready to be on his own and do his own laundry. This is Brandon's most looked forward to change in college.
What is moving into a dorm?
Hamilton started as a nobody and ended up being a successful person and an important part of American history. Brandon also started his life journey as a beginner and has now become a confident and outstanding young man. This is Brandon's biggest takeaway from Hamilton.
What is the comparison between the growth of Hamilton and the growth of Brandon?
Brandon has learned a lot about the structure of high school and how success is assessed. This is something he has learned regarding that.
What is that grades matter but the most important thing is learning?
A sport with yard lines. A sport with foul lines. A sport with a three point line. These are the sports Brandon played before high school.
What is football, baseball, and basketball?
Brandon was not allowed to leave his house. He was forced to use his computer during the school day. He had to view his teachers through a computer. This was the biggest time that he wanted to give up.
What is doing online school during covid?
Brandon enjoys being a part of a sport team. He likes to discuss contract negotiations. He also would like to hire and fire professional basketball coaches. This is Brandon's dream job.
What is an NBA General Manager?
These main characters of Lin-Manuel’s Tony-winning musical have different ways in how they do things. One tries to plan and organize everything and one likes to do what's in his heart with no plan. Brandon resonates between these two characters.
Who are Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton?