To Kill a Mockingbird
Our client the, the Mondavi Center, needed for us to create a modern-day script adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to provoke change because the civil rights issues that are dealt with in the book have become less relevant to today’s adolescents. In our modern adaptation we had to keep To Kill a Mockingbird’s overall message alive, but incorporate a modern civil rights issue into our script. While this project was a challenge, I obtained a lot from it.
Work ethic is the demonstration of self-discipline, the ability to map, plan, and generate a product; to be responsible to oneself and to others; and the constant application to study or work with the intention of achieving excellence. Work ethic is one of the learning outcomes that I gained a lot out of. For example, it took a great amount of self-discipline to get each part of our script written on time so we wouldn’t drag down the rest of the class. This also took a lot of responsibility, because if we didn’t do our part of the project, it would negatively impact each one of us. Not only did it take a lot of work ethic to write the script as a class, it also took a lot of work ethic to memorize and act out my lines because if I didn’t know what I was acting out the day of the performance, it would of dragged the whole performance down. Every part of our production, no matter how small it seemed, took discipline, responsibility, and constant application of studying because everything needed to fit together to pull off a good play. Because of this, I learned that people will always need and depend on each other to get things done, especially out in the work force.
Oral proficiency is when speakers are able to verbally express themselves and inform others on a particular topic. During the To Kill a Mockingbird project we had to learn to express and add meaning to the lines we were reading off the script. What bothered me most was having to speak louder than I already was, because I thought that it was loud enough for everyone to hear. When I spoke louder I felt that the emotion was hard to convey because I was focusing so much on the loud part instead of adding emotion. I found this to be the hardest because I dislike speaking loudly and in front of many people, but this has helped me learn to project to the audience and learn to capture the audience instead of just speaking blandly. This will also help me during presentations for other classes, I will be more prepared verbally and learn to interact better with the audience verbally. This project really helped develop my oral proficiency.
Work ethic is the demonstration of self-discipline, the ability to map, plan, and generate a product; to be responsible to oneself and to others; and the constant application to study or work with the intention of achieving excellence. Work ethic is one of the learning outcomes that I gained a lot out of. For example, it took a great amount of self-discipline to get each part of our script written on time so we wouldn’t drag down the rest of the class. This also took a lot of responsibility, because if we didn’t do our part of the project, it would negatively impact each one of us. Not only did it take a lot of work ethic to write the script as a class, it also took a lot of work ethic to memorize and act out my lines because if I didn’t know what I was acting out the day of the performance, it would of dragged the whole performance down. Every part of our production, no matter how small it seemed, took discipline, responsibility, and constant application of studying because everything needed to fit together to pull off a good play. Because of this, I learned that people will always need and depend on each other to get things done, especially out in the work force.
Oral proficiency is when speakers are able to verbally express themselves and inform others on a particular topic. During the To Kill a Mockingbird project we had to learn to express and add meaning to the lines we were reading off the script. What bothered me most was having to speak louder than I already was, because I thought that it was loud enough for everyone to hear. When I spoke louder I felt that the emotion was hard to convey because I was focusing so much on the loud part instead of adding emotion. I found this to be the hardest because I dislike speaking loudly and in front of many people, but this has helped me learn to project to the audience and learn to capture the audience instead of just speaking blandly. This will also help me during presentations for other classes, I will be more prepared verbally and learn to interact better with the audience verbally. This project really helped develop my oral proficiency.