Exhibition Night Reflection

Last night, April 17th, we had Exhibition Night. Exhibition night is a time for students at my school to showcase the work that we have done or that we are working on. I was really stressed out about exhibition, but it ended up going better than I had expected. My partner and I did very well when we were asked questions about both of the projects we were presenting. One of the strengths that we had was knowing what we were talking about. We both knew the material we had to explain very well and this helped us during our presentations. The one weakness we had was not having the final draft of our paneling for our graphic novel done. Right now we are in the peer critique process and it would have been beneficial to have the final draft. This weakness did help us though. We were able to explain the process of drafting and peer critiquing, which made our project have more depth. The most challenging interaction for me was when this man came up to my station for the pinhole cameras. It was actually time for a shift change, but he kept grilling my partner and I about how the pinhole camera worked. I was able to explain everything, but it was very nerve racking. So, I kept calm and simply explained everything about the pinhole camera project to him. Next exhibition night I plan not to stress as much as I did this time. I now realize that exhibition is just a time to show what's going on in your class and what you have been doing. Overall, exhibition went very well and I was able to show people all of the hard work that I have been doing.

Character Reflection

Today in class, we did acting exercises and put ourselves in the shoes of our characters. The first few exercises were used to loosen up and to let go of all our inhibitions. I really enjoyed these first exercises, because we were able to be fun and crazy. The next exercises we did were with our characters. We pretended that we were the characters from our stories. One of the exercises included posing like one of the characters from your story. Then, we did two more exercises where we first introduced our characters to the class as the character and then acted out a scene from the rising action of the story. My partner and I weren't able to go, but before we had begun the second exercise we had time to discuss what we wanted to act out. From this, we received a better idea of what our characters would actually seem like in real life.
These exercises really helped me understand the characters for my story better. One of the main characters, Abe, lacked depth and because of these exercises I was able to realize that. My partner and I decided that it would be beneficial to his character to give him more of and edge and change his views on the time Hitler ruled. I believe that by changing his character it will make the story have more excitement and entice the reader. Overall, today was extremely beneficial for me and the characters in my developing story. Everyone also got a good laugh from the exercises which made the whole experience more enjoyable.