In class writing on: Seize the Day
The writing due today (in class for A period) should discuss the 6 adaptations, your own plus 5 others done by your peers. Assess them in terms of strengths and weaknesses. The entire writing should be 400-600 words. You have until tonight to finish/revise it. Also, for Saturday, the poem that you should choose to perform should not be too short and it should be a printed poem, not a spoken word poem. You will adapt it into a performance but it must exist as a printed text first. We will discuss this more in class, and email me your other questions. Thanks!
Throughout this week both classes had to perform the poem, Seize The Day by Judith Ortiz Cofer. To talk about my group first, I was with David and Aaron. All of us were all not sure what we were gonna do to perform this poem. We then came to a conclusion that we would alternate stanzas and cute off some of the lines remaining in some stanzas. Each stanza we decided to read all together and then the next sentence it would always be someone different and would keep alternating. It sounded very unique for all of us to be reading the lines together because Aaron has a higher voice than both David and I and made the performance better almost like an ocapela group. Anyways, it seemed just standing there was a bit boring so instead we decided that we would use the black boxes bridge as like a point of speaking. Walking around the bridge constantly, every time someone speaks we had to stop in the middle of the bridge while the other two were walking around still until it is there time to speak there lines. We multi tasked during this performance. If you may not have noticed, we kept on going in circles like the circle of life. The circle of life is life that is repeated and never stops repeating. Instead we kept walking around the bridge showing the repetition of life. Many would not have realized this until we said the comparison with the circle of life. Finally, in the end, we all came to the middle of the bridge and said the final sentence of the last stanza. I really liked the end because we started all together by saying the first line and ended the poem with all of us saying the last line in the last stanza.
I think after performing this poem then just reading the poem, this poem can be seen in many different way or views. For example, we did a more just reading through the poem and taking our time but for the other group which was Jamaal, jack, Ivan, and Nan they did this cool rap out of this poem. The beat that started it from Jamaal really toned the poem. Nan's singing was excellent and hyped the whole poem. Its to bad you could really hear some of the words from Ivan or Jack but you could get the gist that it was more of a hip hop type of poem. The music and the lighting really made the performance the best one I think out of the rest.
All in all, to improve for next time, I feel we were a bit too rushed with finishing the poem. Also, I wish we include some type of positive background music to really set the tone of the act. Other than that, I really liked our groups performance.
Throughout this week both classes had to perform the poem, Seize The Day by Judith Ortiz Cofer. To talk about my group first, I was with David and Aaron. All of us were all not sure what we were gonna do to perform this poem. We then came to a conclusion that we would alternate stanzas and cute off some of the lines remaining in some stanzas. Each stanza we decided to read all together and then the next sentence it would always be someone different and would keep alternating. It sounded very unique for all of us to be reading the lines together because Aaron has a higher voice than both David and I and made the performance better almost like an ocapela group. Anyways, it seemed just standing there was a bit boring so instead we decided that we would use the black boxes bridge as like a point of speaking. Walking around the bridge constantly, every time someone speaks we had to stop in the middle of the bridge while the other two were walking around still until it is there time to speak there lines. We multi tasked during this performance. If you may not have noticed, we kept on going in circles like the circle of life. The circle of life is life that is repeated and never stops repeating. Instead we kept walking around the bridge showing the repetition of life. Many would not have realized this until we said the comparison with the circle of life. Finally, in the end, we all came to the middle of the bridge and said the final sentence of the last stanza. I really liked the end because we started all together by saying the first line and ended the poem with all of us saying the last line in the last stanza.
I think after performing this poem then just reading the poem, this poem can be seen in many different way or views. For example, we did a more just reading through the poem and taking our time but for the other group which was Jamaal, jack, Ivan, and Nan they did this cool rap out of this poem. The beat that started it from Jamaal really toned the poem. Nan's singing was excellent and hyped the whole poem. Its to bad you could really hear some of the words from Ivan or Jack but you could get the gist that it was more of a hip hop type of poem. The music and the lighting really made the performance the best one I think out of the rest.
All in all, to improve for next time, I feel we were a bit too rushed with finishing the poem. Also, I wish we include some type of positive background music to really set the tone of the act. Other than that, I really liked our groups performance.
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