Blue Eyed Blonde's posts

First blog
Today, all of us went into the Stundent Research Area and looked up about
global warming, women's rights, rascism, war, child labour, rape and about
poverty. Mrs. Tickle assigned many people to look up one thing at a time so
we would understand. Overall, i thought this was very useful and
interesting.

Cartman

1. Because you just got a mix of cultures to get a bunch of their own culture names when they did the exact same thing they were not supposed to do and got english common names.
2. I think the best way for our goup, is to script it first, and then practice it. I think this is easier because it didn't really work out improvising and when you perform after you scipt you can notice any mistakes you made and then change it.

none available

1] you would want people to use names of their contry not the usual ones.
2] i like to improve then do word but videos can be funny

so i don't like writing bite me

Catch up with your reflection!

If you have not yet updated your entry about the monologues, please do so. If you can't manage to post your own entry, then you can email me at tickle_jennifer@tisa.az. No excuses!

You have this week to ponder and reflect upon the following:

1. We had an interesting analysis lesson looking at cultural bias in an English play written for school students. one of the first things we all noticved was that the list of characters all had names that we would asociate with US/UK/NZ/Australia - like John, Jane, Timmy etc. We discussed the implications of naming characters in this way and how it made you, as multi-cultural international students feel. The very next lesson, I watched three students, from Korea, Pakistan and Austria repectively, sit down to plan the opening scene of their play. They decided to begin by naming characers, and immediately came up with the names Dorothy, John and James. Why might I have found this a bit frustrating to hear?

2. We have been exploring different ways of developing the play, using a combination of improvisation, video recording and word processing. What combination works best for you, and why?

Monologue/Child Rights Performance

I think I did well in my monologue. I gathered myself togther, got in character, and went on and on about my story. Sometimes it was hard to keep up with myself but i never laughed which I'm happy about. I feel that monologues really tell the story better and communicates to the watcher that what you went through really hit you.

We are now doing child rights performances. The subject we chose for our group is really interesting. Its date rape and self mutilation. I feel that many teenage girls go through a stage where they feel that they need to be older, and in our performance we show how a girl can go through that. It's always hard to find what is realistic and what isnt. If she would actually cut herself over fake love for example. In the end its what we think we would do and what would we do in her place. After all, we are just kids.

HUNTER


my monologue was decent, i think that i could have focused a bit more and maybe added some depth to my character. monologues are a very important piece of drama and i think that i did well.

Curly Fri

I think that monologues help in a play with a lot of people because you get to know the characters more. When you watch a play, or even a movie, you don't know what the character is thinking by just looking at him/her. Monologues help you connect with the character. My monologue was about a girl who was scarred by war. She would see her mother with a gun up to her head everyday.
This week in drama we began thinking about the play that we will be writing. We decided to do two separate stories going on at once and they link in the end. The beginning of it is a flashback. One of the stories is about date rape. The other is about a girl who is being forced into a marriage that she doesn't want and the man that she really loves is killed by her family. They are both depressing things to make a play about, but it is real and important. I think that it will get to be really interesting the further we get.

BRYY

In plays monologues can help the audience to get to know the character. The monologue can tell their background or say what they are thinking. It helps the play have more depth if the characters are more understood. My monologue was about poor families giving up their children to wealthy familes so they can live a better life, but the rich families take the kids and turn them into slaves.

Cartman

I think that monologues are useful within a play becasue they can express the characters thoughts and emotions. Plays usually don't do that much, but if you add a monologue, you get to see the character more. My monologue was about 9/11 and child soldiers. It was about a 15 year old kid who went to war for revenge.

KENNY

today the global warming group split into partners read their monologues to each other. most of us are doing katrina victims but some went totaly out of global warming (sharmeen)