As part of our Year 10 Humanities course, we are able to research a project of our own choice and to create an outcome to showcase at a final exhibition in Term 4.
The topic that I have chosen to research is Yellowstone National Park in the United States of America.
Our main focus area is the 5 themes of geography in terms of the park’s features. And the ecosystems and natural wonders in Yellowstone park.
The steps I have completed so far is completing my annotated bibliography, the research, and organisation of all group members are going to do.
Our plan for continuing our project includes research, planning the design of the project, and creating the different parts of our presentations.
Task 6 this term was to devise a dramatic scene that seeks to offer a representation of a group, individual, or issue that is linked to the play or can be about an issue of interest. We needed to explain, before performing, how representations offered are influenced by their current cultural context. We planned to do this through collaboration, leadership, and problem-solving. My group came up with the idea of displaying animal cruelty through 2 teenage girls exploring a factory built by a successful company that tests on animals to make cosmetic products.
Throughout the task, I had to rely on my ability to collaborate to ensure that we delivered a successful performance. Starting with the planning, collaboration was used at every stage of the process. First of all, we had to create a shareable word document that we could all access and input our knowledge/ create ideas in. The pros of this are that it was easy to use and simple. However the cons are sometimes the document would glitch and appear different to other people. So we could have used OneNote or a google document for smooth transitions of ideas to paper. The next step was to create a script; this was the most challenging, as many of us were absent and not at school most days. I took a leadership role of making a group chat on teams to effectively communicate with my group as well as email them to remind them of their given roles in this task. We collaborated to create a script in a way that we all understood how to act out the scene smoothly with clear stage directions and dialogues. Problem-solving was utilised on the day of our performance as we all forgot to bring props, so we had to explore the schools to find what we needed.
Overall, our performance was unprepared as many of us were absent for rehearsal lessons. But, we succeeded in retrieving our props and making an understandable script. The performance transitions into other scenes could have run more fluidly however we were able to act out our script into a performance that raised awareness of this issue using modern culture.
