This last week in class, we almost completed reading the play, “Romeo & Juliet”. During Act 3, Scene 1, two deaths occurred; those of Mercutio and Tybalt. These deaths played a big part of the story line, and influenced the actions of some other characters in the play.

I have created a newspaper article that announces Mercutio and Tybalt’s deaths; but I have chosen not to use Shakespearean english, and instead written it in modern english. I then thought about the Chorus at the start of the play, and how it acts as a commentary, of sorts. So I decided to attempt to become the Chorus in the article. I based this newspaper article on the 1996 movie interpretation of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo + Juliet”. Some parts are also based off our modern day societies.

I really liked making this newspaper article; it challenged me to use my creativity and writing skills. Next time I will try and make the article less descriptive and more report-like. I would add in some more “witnesses tell…”, and less descriptive writing techniques.

I’ve enjoyed diving deeper into “Romeo & Juliet” and really getting to understand the play. This is our final “TWIL” post, and I think these activities have helped me with my work layout, and they have also given me a new way to view and think about different topics. Overall, I am really quite proud of these posts, and am looking forward to doing something similar again soon.

So this week in class, we continued reading the play, “Romeo & Juliet”, by William Shakespeare. During Act 1 of the play, Lady Capulet describes Count Paris and Juliet’s potential love with an extended metaphor to a book. I found that this was a very interesting and graceful way of poetry and description. So I decided to write my own extended metaphor, describing someone that I know to an object.

But, I ended up writing two different paragraphs; one about my late grandma, and one about my younger brother.

Here they are:

First I pondered upon who I would write about; Who did I know well enough to dive deep into their persona and explain all about them, in just a paragraph of words? I chose my grandma first. She was a huge part of my life, even if it was just for a small amount of it. Writing about her was just so natural for me.

In my mind, autumn leaves represent her.

Next I wrote about my brother. He is crazy and annoying and endlessly buzzing; everything a brother should be. Describing him as a circus was super simple and it made me smile.

I represented him with a travelling circus.

Overall, I believe that writing is one of my strengths; I just love to let my mind go free and let my ideas turn into something that I am, in the end, really proud of. I think this process happened with this mini project. And even if these paragraphs weren’t perfect ones, I’m very happy with them and I wrote them with a lot of effort.

Circus

Autumn Leaf