Petruchio Sonnet

In this first unit of the new sophomore class, Drama, we read play written by Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew. We started this unit with the understanding of what exactly this class was going to be about. The Taming of the Shrew is a play about a woman who speaks her mind getting pushed into a marriage that will tame her. We looked into the Elizabethan era to get a feel of the setting and the social setting of this play. For the action project, we created a sonnet about the characters of the play, I chose Petruchio, a rich man who only wants money. I chose to take a spin on his persona and talk as if i'm justifying why he treated the way he did to Kate.

A. Who says money can’t buy you love?...not I
B.“I come to wive wealthily, happily”
A. Changing the act of the women to mine
B. Tame her to your wants and love you receive

C. I rightly do inherit heaven's grace
D. Draw the dowry, i'll greatly wine and dine
C. Money is love, that’s simply the lord's way
D. Fool you are to see jewels as set in divine

E. A king's death in chess plainly ends the game
F. But that of a queen’s power fights to die
E. Surely, a lords ill fated end their days
F. Sweet wife obey and bear the anguished cry

G. So fool i'm not to think money buys love
G. But fool you are to think love from above

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The Socratic Method with Mikeal and Elizabeth

In the first unit of Forbidden Books we were assigned a book called Fahrenheit 451 and have discussions about the book. The discussions were usually about why do we think the book was censored. Not only this we learned about how censoring another person’s view or idea can only be detrimental to your process of learning. We also learned about the Socratic method, the purpose of this action project is learning the Socratic method. Socrates believed that the examined life is not worth living, when you are having an argument with another person but your suppose to only ask questions that challenge the opposite argument and allows the you and the person you're arguing with to think more critically. we analyzed the reading The Apology by Plato. In the reading we examined how Socrates would often ask questions to help corner the thought process of his accusers and to get more forced out of them also. In the Apology,Socrates was supposedly apologizing for his actions of corrupting the young but actually is justifying his cause by asking questions. Inspired by this belief, we were assigned the task of choosing a topic we want to talk about entitling my own interest priority over that of the community.



Theme:
Am I entitled to give my own interest priority over that of the community?

Character:
Character #1: Mikeal - IF
Character #2: Elizabeth- GA

Script:

E: *jaywalks

E: Hey wassup Mikeal, How are you doing today?
M: Hey wassup, wait…..WHOA, did you just jaywalk to come over and talk to me?
E: Yeaah, what gives haha?
M: YOU JUST BROKE A LAW!!!
E: psssh, oh Mikeal, It’s just jay-walking. It’s a little law, it doesn’t matter that much haha.
M: mmm so, What makes a law less substantial than other laws?
E: Well… I guess some laws are less substantial than others because some laws cause less harm than others, like jaywalking to a felony. Are you allowed to give your own interest priority over the community’s interest?
E: I don’t think so, The community all works as one unit, but I think it’s fine for little slips to occur in our complete agreement. So like, no; but kinda.
M: Yes, but what is stopping me from calling the... police right now, and reporting you as a jaywalker. Jaywalkers are lawbreakers afterall.
E: Because, you are my friend and that is rude.
M: Is it rude to separate from the community’s ideas?
E: Yes, I guess. Nobody is being offended or hurt, so I guess it’s fine.
M: Can you be sure that nobody is getting hurt?
E: No, I suppose not.
M: Tell me, What does being part of a community mean to you?
E: Mmmh coming to think about it being apart of a community means that I work with all my fellow community members to make the place we live a better one.
M: Well, you just jaywalked all over that darned street, what if you had gotten hit by a motor vehicle?
E: Yes, that would have sucked but I like to beat the odds. As long as I remember look both ways Elizabeth i’m sure ill be fine Mikeal.
M: But what if everybody in the neighborhood started to do that darned jaywalking? Would the community still be a safe place? Would we need sidewalks at all?
E: I guess a lot more people would be getting hit by cars. But I can't speak for the whole community I think you’re over exaggerating Mikeal. that would never happen to me
M: *I ask again, can you be sure that you won’t get hit? What if someody decides to jaywalk and that causes a car to swerve in front of you and you happen to get hit? You might be careful while jaywalking, but you can’t guarantee that everyone will be.
E: You know what, your right Mikeal indeed I am selfish for prioritizing my own interest and not the overall safeness of the community. Boy o boy I sure learned my lesson Mikeal. HAHA
M: So you won’t be jaywalking anymore right?
E: tsk tsk tsk si
M: So what now?
E: You wanna play futbul?

THE END.

A Boy Within the System

GA Performs A Boy Within the System from GCE Lab School on Vimeo.

A Boy Within the System

A boy within

the system

made the boy go crazy

Ima victim of the system

Big man cutting treatment bills from the ill

That's mental

Survival of the fittest

That’s the way they got us livin

Addicted

Liquid pistols and pills

This is how we get commited

system gotchu restricted

Thin white lines

Now your jurisdiction

Turn to crooks that do time

When did we decide

This is a victimless crime

But that's the big mans plan

Keep you weak with a strong extended hand

Bills written in riddles

You misunderstand

Take your right hand

And sit in the witness stand

While the wise man gets tongue taken and tied

Bills get certified

Big man wears power

To hide his vile sty

Making deals with the devil

Roll the 6 sided die

Bills are even

And you’re oddly left with dry bones

mentally acidified

This boy Within

this system

Sees these people

These are the people stuck within this system

Aunt sally still nagging with a few pumps of oxygen

Little junior taking the wrong path but little junior brings home the dough so he's a fine
young man

Crazy old man goes by the name of joe

Joe owns no home

He reeks and sneaks rocks up his nose

Kids on the block know what's cool

These kids know how to kick it, pop it, and do a flaming lock it

Pass the joint

Don't dare to drop it

This is the system in which we disguise as poverty

Quick pills to take the eaz

Get rid of stress is all they need

This is mental illness not poverty

These are chains that have not been broken

These are people who have lived unspoken

Brainwashed to believe  they need no help

It's not the system

Its poverty

To think your ill is a mockery

Just keep thinking one day you will win the lottery

Say goodbye to poverty

Live a long healthy life

Only to find out

I'm back to the same chain

Wondering why it is this way

But all along you were stuck within

the system

not poverty

I'm the boy within

This system

The boy thats sick

Not mental

Loudspeakers keep the voices away

Baggy trus white tee glistening shoes keeps me cool

And keeps the abnormality away

Fed with lies and hypnotized life scares the hunger away

Boxes of antioxidants don't make me obey

Walking high on two feet

With a cig in each pocket

Lean walking

The money you baggin

Got us toe taggin

Im Delusional

Amphetamine got the best of me

Blurry vision

Got me

straight trippin

Hope the prayers start kickin

Admirable intoxication

Is what builds this nation

The world domination

The world is our creation

The matrix

kill the ill give me eaz

Just take the blue pill

Im mental

Hard to say

The red pill is existential

My demons write my future

Erase my brain with a pencil

I'm fed up

Choked up

Knees shake

Eye roll

God please

Save my soul

I'm begging you

I'm not worthy

But this little boy need sum lovin too

Good kid M.A.A.D city

Made the good kid cruel

I'm not ill,

I'm just sick of the same old stew

Same cig don't wanna light up too

Ignorance is bliss

Until the demons take that too

I'm gone

I'm not mental

I'm just sick

The message of my poem is a boy within the system and mental illness. The boy I address talks about how he feels towards bills being cut from the mental health care system; people of the lower class can't be treated after these cuts being made. In the first stanza I talk about the man in power taking away the bill that allows people to get treated and how that affects the people. I start to talk about how people start to rely on medicated drugs which lead to overdose and that can lead to “victimless crimes” and how that leads to, “crooks that do time”. In the second stanza I talked about the community and how “stuck within the system”. The purpose of this was to teach people how mental illness still seen as a taboo thing. It's not poverty that's bringing them down it's the mental chains that are not being broken, not letting you get out of that certain standpoint. In the 3rd stanza I talk about the boy who is mentally ill, he feels conflicted; does not want to settle on drugs and get stuck within the system. Because Writing this poem with the perspective of the boy, I seemed to use the same poetic devices throughout my poem. Throughout the poem I used a balanced level of wordplay for example, when talking about the man with power I used multisyllabic rhymes to balance the slang rhyme, giving it a stronger cadence. Throughout the piece I also used anaphora as my transition as i talked about the bills, community, and me which was the boy within the system. Throughout my performance I wanted to keep it strong, sharp, simplistic. My performance really depended on the poetic devices because the flow of the rhyme played a big roll. My cadence had a song like tone in the first stanza this enhanced the tone of the poem by setting a mood of who this boy is and how he feels about the system. The volume I used was loud and clear. I wanted the audience to feel attacked and made sure they knew every word had strong meaning and needed to be heard.When revising my poem and my performance I definitely change the poem more than the performance. Because I knew I wanted the performance to be monotone strong and simplistic I knew I had to include more metaphor, alliteration, etc. to hold meaning to what I was saying. I decided this because I wanted to play on the person that is mentally ill. Most people when they think of a mentally ill person think they have no sense of analyzation and articulate. I wanted voice in these people “who have lived unspoken”.

Hi, my name is Onion Onion

In this unit Food for Thought, we learned about the origin and value of food. We were able to choose any crop of our choice and reflect it to our own family recipes. I choose an onion because my family always have onion as an important topping to any of our foods and personally I just love it. The video you will about to see will be an interpretation of brown onion perspective in the first person and several intentional puns.

          

Cited Work:
The National Onion Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 May 2017.

Disaster Movie review

This assignment was to review a movie of your choice with a partner while experiencing the process of pre-production, production, and post production through making this review film. The purpose of this assignment was to gather all we learned through out this elective including our FE journeys and getting a hands on experience making our own film. My partner LS and I gave a negative review on the Disaster Movie. I learned a lot of things in Ollywood. Ollywood opened my eyes to a new format of creativity. The most challenging part for me was participating. I feel like I could of participated way more which felt like a struggle sometimes getting my voice in something so new you don't know much about. In the contrary i did a lot of listening my mind kind of exploded of all the perspectives I was learning from Brent, my classmates, FE, films, producers, and Benjamin. What I am mostly proud of is my thrive to take film in my own hands. LD and I have started filming several days non stop of anything that walks our way its an experience i am loving right now and who knows maybe in the future to.

Review of Disaster Movie by GA & LS from GCE Lab School on Vimeo.