This year in English, one of the tasks that I was required to complete was to perform a dramatic performance of a text we had written ourselves. This task was completed in groups, and as such, had many elements to it aside from purely English skills. Some examples of the skills that this task required are collaboration, communication, creativity, organisation, and resilience. The last one might be a little surprising, but not in the way you may think, I’ll talk about this a later.

As for a basic overview, the play, or more precisely, scene of a play, that my group and I wrote, was a court trial over the murder of the defendant’s girlfriend. It was a play that confronted the prejudices that are already present within the social system and legal system, namely over income level and wealth level.

Now, speaking of the skills that were required as part of this task, collaboration was most likely one of the most important, as this was a group project. I was in a group with 3 others, and we all planned together, wrote together, and performed together. Everyone put in an equal amount of effort, and no one slacked off, everyone pulled their weight. In a way, this also displays leadership, while not in the traditional sense, rather equal leadership between all members of the group.

Touching back on the list from the first paragraph, there was one skill that felt a bit off, resilience. Let me explain this a bit. There were, arguably, too many interruptions to our timeline. First off we missed a Friday due to a sports carnival, another Friday thanks to a pupil free day, and to top it off, due to extenuating circumstances, one member could no longer perform. Thanks to this, we had to rework the script, and much more, one member down. To deal with all these disruptions, we required much resilience, and we displayed as such. With only a small extension, we completed the task on time and performed our scene successfully.