Science Leadership Academy

This is pretty much the beginning of our process to do our final benchmark for English. Right off the bat I felt that it would be an interesting yet, somewhat challenging task, not so much for the work in itself, but the collaboration to get the work done. I have a group of four and was chosen leader (not my choice) so I am trying my best to make sure my group is doing all that we should be, while at the same time also keeping myself on track as well. So far though, it seems like everyone has been on track and doing the work that they need to do. We are all keeping up with our lines and not much complaining has happened… yet.
One thing that is difficult in this project is finding the perfect lines that will capture, not only the plot of the story, but the idea of our theme as well which is revenge. The thing is that when it comes to revenge Iago is one who is definitely out for it in the book, however, we as a group do not want to solely focus on Iago because there are numerous characters who take revenge out on someone throughout the book, one way or another. For example, Othello takes revenge out on Desdemona for cheating on him, falsely, but revenge none-the-less. Another person is Emilia who takes revenge out on Iago for all the wicked and heinous crimes that he hath committed by exposing the truth about him to Gratiano and everyone else, etcetera. So, I am currently trying to portray that in our script without overdoing it and throwing a million ideas into a 7-minute presentation, and that is one of the problems that my group is facing as a whole.
A thing that we have all learned though is the beauty of www.nfs.sparknotes.com. It allows us to go check lines from the play if we do not fully understand them. However, this project is allowing me to go through the book again and understand Shakespeare’s wording and vocabulary now, because when I first began reading the book I had absolutely no clue as to what was occurring in the book, but as I went through it I began to understand it piece by piece. Then, with all of our class discussions and our analyzing it has helped me so that now when I go back into my sections I can reread the lines and because I understand the plot better, it allows me to also understand the dialogue better as well. It has really helped me learn my Shakespeare.