So.

*insert suspenseful music here*

It’s time.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for.

The Student-Led Conference.

The SLC is sort of like a parent-teacher interview, except presented by a student. So basically, I have to talk about some of the  work I’ve done this year. Specifically, three things: my quilt project, my Julius Caesar skit, and Destination Imagination.

 

So first of all, my quilt project. This was a project where a group of students wrote a story, and then each student made a quilt square to represent part of the story. The quilt my group made told the story of a girl called Cordelia, who was in a plane crash and transformed into a part-fish-part-human creature, then started a community in the Bermuda Triangle.

This is my quilt square, which depicts Cordelia in her new life in the Bermuda Triangle, with Poseidon watching over her, and her community in the background. If you want the full story, check out my blog other post about the quilt project.

 

Second of all, a project that didn’t go so well: my Julius Caesar skit. This was supposed to be a rewrite and performance of a scene from Julius Caesar (in this case act 5 scene 5, Brutus’  death) in a modern setting. My group decided to have the scene be a fight between two gangs, and the suicide of one of the gang members. The idea was good, and the rewriting the script went pretty well, but when it came time to perform, we were unprepared; we didn’t have the props we needed and we were stumbling through lines and blocking. As much as I would have preferred this project to go a lot better, I think I learned a lesson from it: make sure you’re prepared, and practice if you have a performance.

Finally, Destination Imagination. This was a project that required a lot of patience and flexibility, both things I don’t always have a lot of. It involved writing and performing a mystery story set before the 1990s. Our mystery story was a murder set in a disco in the 1970s. Probably the most difficult part of creating the skit was factoring in a “techniclue”, a technical element to help solve the mystery. We had to rewrite or edit the script several times to eventually get it to work out. What was also problematic was when it turned out we couldn’t get one of the props we needed, a mannequin. However, I came up with the solution of using a model head that I had made priorly,  and the group as a whole came up with the idea to use a sheet and various items underneath the sheet to look like the rest of the body.

That about wraps up the work I needed to discuss, so…. Yeah.

Toodles.