Improv Insight

       I started off doing this blog post tonight having no idea what so ever, I was going to write about. I was begining to think I had run out of things to say. So I sat on my bed, racking my brain for ideas on what to write...
 
      Then I recalled the improv we did last class, Unfortunately Story. We had done activities like this before in which we were all in a big circle and went around making up a story. However in this activity we had to change the story when it was our turn, we had to make it something it was not. For me this was much harder than the previous game we had played. It is so much easier to add to a story than it is to take away from our change it. This got me thinking about the Literacy Narratives we wrote and I began to see the connection between the two. The game was a challenge to get us thinking in new way, and how to change the story we already have into something different, something new. I felt the same challennge when trying to edit my narrative, it was hard to completely change the story, to really dig in and make something new, but I eventually got the hang of it. Before this improv I never really understood the point of all the activities like that, that we do. Now I get it, improv can actually be helpful.

Princess and the frog twist

Last class we read "Hazel Tells Laverne" by Kathryn Machan. I really liked the twist to the classic fairytail of the princess and the frog. The girl is given the oppurtinity to become a princess, but she does not want that for herself, she does not believe the frog. It makes me think she is not gullible and makes this poem seem very real to life.