Gestures

It is important for actors to have gestures so they can express how they feel or what they're thinking. If actors didn't have any gestures, then it would be really boring and weird with them just talking and not moving. Gestures are a normal thing, everyone does it. We don't really plan gestures because sometimes it just happens. Even non actors do gestures. Gestures are a part of everyone's thought and actions.

The Year We Disappeared

Today in English class, I was able to read a book that I've been wanting to read, but never had the time to. It's called The Year We Disappeared. It's a book where it's from two people's perspectives, the daughter, Cylin Busby, and the dad, John Busby. John is a cop on Cape Cod, in Falmouth, Massachusetts. August 31, 1979 is a night that their family will always remember. That night, John got shot in the face by an unknown person. His tongue was cut in half and his jaw was falling off and he lost a lot of blood. He was on the way to work that evening when a suspicious car drove by and shot at him and so he went the other direction to the nearest house and they helped him and called 911. He thought he was gonna die and he wanted to tell them what happened and he couldn't speak so he had to write it out on a piece of paper. Their family was supposed to go see The Muppet Movie that night, but he was too tired and so they canceled it. Cylin and her brothers were so upset because they were really looking forward to it. That's all that I read so far.

Poetry

I think the poetry unit was fun yet hard. It was hard to get all the requirements in the poems and I couldn't really find any words that rhymed. I'm already naturally so bad at rhyming so this unit was pretty hard for me.  It was fun though, we got the chance to write about whatever we wanted. I really enjoyed hearing other people's poems and some of them even made me tear up. I think that I did pretty good saying my poem and I also got good feedback. I would like to hear more poems from other people. I think that poems are really deep especially hearing it out loud instead of just reading it, because when you're reading you can't really tell what tone the writer intended it to be. Overall, this unit was really fun.