A Raisin in the Sun Commentary

For the third unit in my Humanities course Drama, we read and analyzed A Raisin in the Sun. Along with reading the play, we further analyzed the social issues it presented such as gender roles, gentrification, and matriarchy. For our Action Project, we wrote a prologue, picked a scene form the play, and commented on our chosen piece as a member of the play's "Chorus". While doing this we also learned of the Chorus' role in the theater. On thing I struggled with was writing the prologue and one thing I really enjoyed doing was recording the commentary.

History in the Park

For the second unit of Drama at GCE, we continued our journey into plays by reading A Doll's House. Reading this book in this unit was a bit different from the last because of the style of writing and the time period it was written in. It was also much easier to understand exactly what was going on. For this Action Project, we were asked to write and preform a play. The most difficult part of this was actually writing the play since I had never done it before.

Shakespearean Sonnet

For the first Unit of my Humanities course Drama at GCE, we read the play The Taming of the Shrew and studied sonnets. After reading the play, I felt my understanding of Shakespearean language had increased by a lot. For our Action Project, we created our own sonnets and recorded a video of us preforming it. The hardest part of this project was making sure the poem followed iambic pentameter for most of the poem. What I am most proud of is how I incorporated Shakespearean language.

LS Shakespearean Sonnet from LS on Vimeo.

How canst thou have such a quick change of heart

One man, some words, and soon thy mind was new

I used to think that you were rather smart

At least you are no longer seen as “Shrew”

How can you even think you want to stay

If all Petruch’io thinks is that you are

only e’er “bound to serve, love, and obey”

Oh how this new Kate is so rather mar

What grates me most are not your shrewish ways  

I understand his threats and how you’re forced

Snap out of your husband's controlling daze

Make him stop or quite simply get divorced

Let’s see this not as man’s despotic crime

Rather a lesson, meant for all life’s time