Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Final Blog
On the first day of this class, all I could remember was feeling really nervous. I did not know anything about acting. I knew that I wanted to do performances and act things out, but I did not know how to, plus I had a bad case of stage fright when I started this class. The first big performance that we did in front of the class, was a skit that we based off of the word "fence." It was so bad. Our acting skills were terrible. However, this first project that we did helped me to realize that acting was really fun. I enjoyed working in a group and I realized how much fun it was to create an original idea and perform it. As the months went by, my perspective on literature changed. When I was doing the reading homework, I started to imagine how these scenes would look on stage. I also payed more attention to the little details in the books that we read because I knew that these details would be important in the performances. I learned many lessons over the course of the last two years in this class. The first lesson that I learned was to listen. In order to create a great performance, you must listen to each others ideas. I learned this lesson this year in my IA when we were writing the script. Everyone in the group has to have input on things like the script, the stage setup, the lighting ect. This is so important because when multiple ideas are combined together, they create one great performance. Another lesson that I learned was that it is okay to fail as long as you keep trying and do not let it stop you. There were numerous times in the last two years where I messed up my lines or forgot where I was supposed to be on stage during a performance. However, because I did not give up on what I was trying to do, I was eventually able to succeed. I also learned that it is okay to be nervous on stage. Everyone at some point gets nervous on stage, but it provides valuable lessons that help you to grow as a person. In my first performance I was nervous as anyone could be, but after it was over I realized that it was not that bad. Then when the next performance came up, I was less nervous. As I continued to perform I continued to not get nervous. This not only helped me in this class but in daily life. I started to become more outgoing. On the first day of this class, Ms Guarino asked us what we thought literature was and performance. She asked us how they were related. I really did not know what either really were because I did not think about it ever until I started this class. What I have come up with now is this. Literature is something that is original, that provides a message to the reader. Performance is how people understand that message and then turn it into something that people can see. They turn the words into actions so that they can spread that message that they took from the literature. I still do not know the full answer to these two things but I am still learning and I know that I will know exactly what they are and how they are related. I greatly appreciate the time that I have spent in this class. It provided many lessons and skills that I will be able to use down the road in my life. Thank you.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
6. While some poems focus exclusively on a personal or private experience, others reflect on
the place of the individual in the larger human community. In the work of at least two poets,
explore the ways in which poems have conveyed the poet’s sense of the world beyond the private
sphere.
Naimi Shihab Nye has a very interesting writing style in her poetry. The reason for this is because she writes about her personal stories and her poems do not rhyme. On top of that her poems are extremely long. In her poems she writes a lot about Arab people because she is Arab. One of her poems that adress her Arab culture is the poem "Blood." This poem explains what a true Arab is. In this poem she is writing about her father and how he is a true Arab who is kind and caring. The reason why she talks about the true Arab is because of what was happenning with events like 911. People were confused as to what a true Arab was and what the terrorists were. An example of this is in the first line when she writes, "A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands." The reason for this sentence is because she is trying to say that a true Arab wouldn't even hurt a fly. Another poem that she has written that reflects on her personal life was one about her father and how he told her stories when she was a little girl. In every story her father included a fig tree or just a fig but he always added it into the story. This is important because her father is trying to pass down his culture to his daughter. He does not want her to forget who she is and why that is a good and special thing.
the place of the individual in the larger human community. In the work of at least two poets,
explore the ways in which poems have conveyed the poet’s sense of the world beyond the private
sphere.
Naimi Shihab Nye has a very interesting writing style in her poetry. The reason for this is because she writes about her personal stories and her poems do not rhyme. On top of that her poems are extremely long. In her poems she writes a lot about Arab people because she is Arab. One of her poems that adress her Arab culture is the poem "Blood." This poem explains what a true Arab is. In this poem she is writing about her father and how he is a true Arab who is kind and caring. The reason why she talks about the true Arab is because of what was happenning with events like 911. People were confused as to what a true Arab was and what the terrorists were. An example of this is in the first line when she writes, "A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands." The reason for this sentence is because she is trying to say that a true Arab wouldn't even hurt a fly. Another poem that she has written that reflects on her personal life was one about her father and how he told her stories when she was a little girl. In every story her father included a fig tree or just a fig but he always added it into the story. This is important because her father is trying to pass down his culture to his daughter. He does not want her to forget who she is and why that is a good and special thing.
Monday, May 6, 2019
Class Notes
Naomi Shihab Nye
- contemporary american poet
- no rhyme scheme/no meter/structure(free verse)
- narrative- tells a story
- autobiographical poetry (about her life)
- people and family
- connection
- nature
- world is not possitive all the time
- rooted in the history of right now
- 9/11 Israeli-Palestinian war
- contemporary american poet
- no rhyme scheme/no meter/structure(free verse)
- narrative- tells a story
- autobiographical poetry (about her life)
- people and family
- connection
- nature
- world is not possitive all the time
- rooted in the history of right now
- 9/11 Israeli-Palestinian war
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Emily Dickinson Blog Post
5.)
Emily Dickinson uses pace and rhythm very effectively in her poems. Her usage of this skill provides deeper meaning to her poems. Two poems that she does this in are "I am Nobody who are you?" and "To make a prairie." In "To make a prairie" the third line in that poem does a great job of slowing down the pace of the poem and forcing the reader to think about. In the beggining of the poem she says "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee." These lines have a good pace to them but the next line is "and revery." Those two words make me stop and think about what she is saying. After that she say "The revery alone will do." In "I am Nobody who are you," Dickinson uses structure to control the pace of the poem. In the second line of the poem, she uses a lot of dashes for pauses in the sentence. "Are you - Nobody - too?" In this sentence we learn a lot of things about this poem. One of the things we learn is that the person writing this is talking to somebody else. Another thing is that they are a nobody who is trying to find a match. The third thing we learn is that the writer is shy because of the breaks in the sentence. These examples show how important pace is in a poem.
Emily Dickinson uses pace and rhythm very effectively in her poems. Her usage of this skill provides deeper meaning to her poems. Two poems that she does this in are "I am Nobody who are you?" and "To make a prairie." In "To make a prairie" the third line in that poem does a great job of slowing down the pace of the poem and forcing the reader to think about. In the beggining of the poem she says "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover and a bee." These lines have a good pace to them but the next line is "and revery." Those two words make me stop and think about what she is saying. After that she say "The revery alone will do." In "I am Nobody who are you," Dickinson uses structure to control the pace of the poem. In the second line of the poem, she uses a lot of dashes for pauses in the sentence. "Are you - Nobody - too?" In this sentence we learn a lot of things about this poem. One of the things we learn is that the person writing this is talking to somebody else. Another thing is that they are a nobody who is trying to find a match. The third thing we learn is that the writer is shy because of the breaks in the sentence. These examples show how important pace is in a poem.
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