Creative Project and Reflection

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Rick Kinard

10/25/2011

English 12: Sexuality & Society in Literature

Quarter 1 Creative Project

Reflection

♣A clear explanation of what your creative piece is about, what it represents, and how you attempted to get the point across.

My creative I chose to do a poem because it was a form of art that I felt most confortable doing and presenting. After reading the scarlet letter watching the Juno, it seem that the characters acted/felt one-way and said something different. The poems were basically the inner thoughts that were not said in the movie and/or text. I didn’t try to disguise it I just said it plain and simple.

♣How you went about crafting your piece. What was your process like? Did you encounter any problems/issues as you went along?

In class we talk a lot about what characters dialogue. We specifically examined what they said with their mouths vs. what they said with their body language. We noticed that what they said didn’t always match up with what they felt and/or thought. So with that, I kept each main character from Juno and the scarlet letter came up with a theme for their feelings/thought. Then I linked two from each that hand similar themes. For example, the theme I came up with for bleaker was about concealed emotions. Then I went about coming up with the poems because I already knew what I want to write. I just put it all in a powerpoint. The pictures chosen behind the text were silhouette because you can see them but not their entire identity just like in the character's thoughts. 

♣What are the aspects of the project you believe you did well?

I believe I the part of the project I did well was the preparation and application. I believe it was because we were told about the project before hand and shown examples of other projects. I just knew what I wanted to talk because it was a topic that stayed in the classroom for a while. When were told we were doing a creative project, I thought poetry. My project just took off from there.

♣What aspects of the project do you feel you could have done better?

I feel as if the creativity level should have been way higher. Compared to other people’s ideas I don't feel like my Project was that creative.  On the other hand I also do not believe I could have shown much more creativity in my poems. I knew what I wanted and when I was finished I thought about what everyone else said they were doing and I felt as if my project wasn’t up to par.

♣If you could do it all over again, what would you do differently?

If I had another chance or more time, I would not have did something completely different but I would have added something to it. I would have tried to make a sculpture or did a drawling representing the theme of each poem and/or person.