Jacob L Lit and Performance Blog

It has been a while since we have last looked and revised each one of our essays on The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.  After looking at the rubric and checking off the stuff we haven't and do not have I have come to the conclusion that there is still a lot of work to be done.  My biggest problem is obviously included quotations to back up my evidence in each of the paragraphs that I have written.  In the rubric I would say that 1/6 of the check marks were about good use of quotations.  I obviously earned a 0 for those parts because I never included them.  Anyways,  I have already started to do parts that I completely missed like a title, works cited (For the Book), and word count etc.  After reading my essay over I need more information in some of the paragraphs like the conclusion.  My conclusion is very short and broad.  I repeated stuff in the conclusion that I had previously said in other paragraphs like the introduction.  I...

This week I performed my poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost.  We have had multiple times learning to memorize and create our own little performance out of this short poem.  After performing my first final draft I realized that background music really made the performance 10 times better.  when watching and hearing the sad background music added made it so much more dramatic and better.  After all the feedback from my fellow classmates I realized that I must have more movement and possibly add background music that would fit into my performance.  Emotion and voice also helped express the poem.  After watching everyones performances many people didn't just memorize their lines by heart but turn the poem into and actual act by showing emotion that they would not normally show.  Lighting also catches the eye very well.  Lighting can help set the scene and performance.  The performances that showed emotion and good use of background music and light...

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