Almost Final Draft

Monday with a sub

Monday 04/10 - before prom trip

blue balls: 

Wednesday 28 - presentation time!

Since it's Wednesday, we have a short period. We had two presentations this class; ours and Fernanda's.
I think ours went pretty well, it was organized and I think we presented our ideas clearly. It still would've been more entertaining if we had the filmed part, but oh well. Fernanda's presentation was also good, it was funny. I will post the video of our presentation on my blog later.

Today was the last class before the mid-term grades were submitted. I'm kind of confused on how I'm going to be graded because I came in late. I hope I have enough material to get a good grade, so my GPA doesn't get lower.

Monday 26 - presentations

Today most of the groups presented. At first I was kind of freaked out because Alex and Javier, who presented first, had a really PRO presentation, so yeah... our's wasn't as descriptive as theirs. Pedro's presentation was also awesome. The class ended and we weren't able to present so Ms. Morrison told us to present on Wednesday. We haven't had class in a whole week because it was ICC so some periods were skipped.

We didn't make the filmed part of the presentation because our after-school activities never coincided in time. When I had time, Antonio didn't; or when Fiorella had time, Sebastian didn't.

Monday 19 - fail

Today we were going to film the project because we thought that we had to act it out, not present it in a power point or something like that. It was also the first day of ICC so everyone was kind of excited. We got into our costumes and got a camera. At first, we tried to film it in the classroom but there was too much noise coming from the other groups, so we decided to go to the little theater but that was also a bad idea because the light was weird and not as we -I'm a  weeeeiiinnnnnerrrr!- wanted them to be [dark and gloomy]. After deciding that we would not film it in school, we went to scare people in the library because we were dressed as witches with long cloaks and dark, creepy make-up. When we came back to the class they told us that we didn't actually have to film it, we could just make a presentation. We planned on filming it near Fiorella's house at night AND also presenting a power point.

Class #2 - 16/9/11

Today was a make-up class because yesterday we went to the college fair. We played some games at the beginning of class and then we saw a video about Chinese opera and discussed on how it is important to maintain one's culture. After that, we got together with out Lysistrata groups and planned on how we should present it. Our group decided that we would film it and that we would be witches, casting some sort of spell on our husbands. We will film the first part outside a creepy house near where Fiorella lives, and then we may film the rest of it in Fiorella's house, because we need somewhere that has low lights so it gives a mysterious mood to the skit. We are still trying to figure out what to wear, but it's basically going to be black clothes with a black cape on top, and Antonio and Sebastian are going to wear long wigs, so that might be funny. What we want to represent by acting as witches, is that witches are often represented as having great power, and women in Lysistrata also had a lot of power. We have an inbox on Facebook where we will coordinate what to wear, the dates, and everything related to our project.

First Day - Wednesday 14

Yesterday was my first Theater class after dropping Physics. Although it was a short period of 45 minutes, it was really fun and I learned some things that could help me write my monologue. I think everyone is writing their monologue from a point of view of someone whose human rights are being affected, or defending someone or a group of people who's human rights have been violated, but I want to give it a twist. I would like to write my monologue with the point of view of someone who is going against someone's human rights. Like for example from the point of view of a violent psychopath, like Hannibal Lecter. It might be frowned upon by some people, but I think it would be really interesting to let others enter the mind of someone who isn't guided by the usual social norms. Ms. Morrison told me to choose someone other than Hannibal because everyone already knows him, so I've been doing some research on other violent psychopaths. Maybe I'll chose a woman psychopath because it would be something different from what everyone thinks when they think of a psychopath, since they usually think of male serial killers. 

Also, Fiorella offered to take me into her group for the Lysistrata skit. She sent me the lines and we chose our characters. I got the role of Lysistrata, which is a fun character. We are debating wether to film it or act it out in class. I would rather film it, because we can add many other things to it that we would not be able to do if we do it in class. We still need to hear from Antonio and Sebastian to make the final decision.