My current progres on the report is somwhat favorable.  I have gained monolouges for all four acts I was assigned with:  Act 1 Scenes 1, 2, and 3, and Act 2 Scene 1.  Today, I gave them to the group leader, Michael Doyle.  I am currently waiting for the script to be fully complete.

Unfortunately, I am waiting for my groupmates to finish their line-hunts in their progress.  My the girls in my group haven't finished their parts, so this could be a problem.  I am at least somewhat impatient, but they have difficulties, so I might as well cut them some slack.

I understand how revenge took place in the play.  Iago wanted it and he got it by tricking Othello into wanting revenge on Desdemona.  He created a villanous trap of vengance and dispair for Othello leading him to his doom.  But it brought him to his own as well.

Process:

We chose Sarah as the team manager. We based our jobs on the reliability of the person. We decided on the scenes just in order. The amount of scenes was given also according to the reliability.

Group Dynamics:

The relationships between some people are kind of rough. We are being as fair as we can to all the members. Some of us are a little clueless on what to do. Were getting things done.

Editing:

I chose my lines by getting some from my Inspiration document. I chose the important lines by finding lines that change the meanings in the book and have events in them.

Evolving Understanding:

Im not sure about this one.

  The script is on its way! Lines are pretty much all pulled, and now it’s on to the editing stage so it makes sense. It’s ridiculously long. The original play is probably three hours long or so, and we have to do it in seven minutes. That will be interesting. Our script is twenty-five pages long, before editing. There’s a lot of editing to do. The finished script should be around ten pages or less.

In line-pulling, I tried to weed out unimportant events. I pulled from Act three. So, I kept a lot of the handkerchief drama in, but tried to edit out as much meaningless banter as possible. Iago says lots of random things just to get a reaction, and now a lot of that is gone. However, you can’t just cut out the important lines and forget the rest. It has to make sense and flow. I pulled important events, yes, but connecting lines that weren’t directly plot-related had to be kept as well, for the scene to make sense.

Honestly, my understanding of Othello really hasn’t deepened because of line-pulling, because I’m not reading for understanding or meaning when deciding what stays and goes. I’m just looking for what events are important to our theme, entering the line into the google doc, and moving on. I think we should be thinking more about our theme, though, because I’m not sure we really have an idea of what in Othello really relates to betrayal. We’re kind of just pulling general important parts.

Our group dynamic is still pretty good. We’re chill people for the most part, so we quietly do our work and get on with it. Most of our group is a bit slow, too, so line-pulling took longer than expected, and these blog posts are a bit late from all of us. Oh well. It’s getting done!

Tomorrow we’ll be making puppets! Twill be exciting. Hopefully I remember the felt.

My Group= Mekeda, Lucas, Shannel, Me

 Benchmark Topic= Jealousy

So far, my group has found quotes relating to the topic in Act 1 and Act 5. The project is going wel. We used our in-class time to find the quotes we have so far, and we have already discuseed and decided how we will present the final project. It will be a series of monologues for important scenes involving certain characters, instead of just straight up text reading. Also, we have decided to get more quotes and start editing over the weekend.

Working as a group has not been a problem for us. All members work efficiently and do not waste time. Our successes are that we stay on the same page and don't get off point when having discussions, we work seriously and diligently, and we get along with each other.No one argues or has trouble comunicating. The only difficulty the group has had so far was that we had trouble deciding on how we would present the final project, since none of us really were too concerned about how we presented. So,we all just agreed on and picked monologues.

In terms of understanding the text, I have gotten a better understanding since the project started. I see how characters show their jealousy without saying it. Also, I've seen that the jealousy started earlier than i thought. For example, when the story begins (on the first page, in fact) Iago talks of his disappointment and disgust at Cassio receiving the lieutenancy instead of him. Iago puts his jealouusy out for the audience to see as soon as possible, not exactly a smart move, but it still helped me to understand him a little more, as well as the concept of jealousy in the rest of Othello.

Well so far my group members and I have picked a theme which is revenge. We have also, started to  find lines that circle around our theme. However it is quite dififcult because the theme that we have there isn't that much stuff to work with. Seeing as how most of the book isn't about revenge because most of the people don't do anything for another person to pratice revenge on them. So its calmly frustrating but it's ok i guess for now. Last, we have decided that we r going to make a podcast as our choice of presentation and that is fine with me because i hate acting lol.

My current team log:

We got along pretty well. We helped to negotiate how our project was able to go. I gathered monolouges for my acts, and delivered them to the group. They liked them. I did a good job in understanding how revenge related they were, and I comprehended Iago's vengeful ambitions. One groupmate had trouble with her acts, and so I reccomended her to skip acts she doesn't find a single line about revenge in.

Our group has a good dynamic, and that has allowed us to be clear and establish a plan for the final product. That said, we have yet to pull most of our lines. I’m assuming we’re all doing that this weekend.

Our plan: our seven minutes highlighting betrayal will center on the handkerchief conflict, leaving out the Cassio-as-lieutenant conflict. We’ve also decided on doing a puppet show for the presentation.

We divided up the work easily, each person taking an act, and then the two with shorter acts each took a scene from act five. So that works.

Not much has happened yet, so there’s not much to say.

For our Q4 benchmark we were given topics to study, I was to Study the Little Rock Nine. My class and I were supposed to write a 5-pargraph essay witch would later be turned into a 30-second commercial. In our essay we were to provide knowledge about African American history.

A benchmark from a very long time ago that talked about how we had to generate a conversation between King Tut and the people of his Kingdom.

This was our memoir on what we had been through and how it shaped us on who we are today.