10 things i know about this play

1.Lucentio and Bianca end up together.
2.Lucentio who is (cameron) likes Bianca.
3.hortensio is like joey
4.baptista says Bianca cannot wed until katherine marry's first
5.biance cannot date before katherine dates
6.kat (shrew) seems incapable of having human interaction
7.pat trys to win kats heart and succeeds
8.bianca gets upset with kat becasue she does not understand why cant date
9.Lucentio makes a deal with petruccio
10.Lucentio (Cameron) and Hortensio (Joey) fight to win Bianca.

Afloat

Although i was not there for the first part of the movie i loved the part where George Clooney and his friends are about to be killed when the dam breaks. It was funny to see how one minute George is praying for gods help, and the next he says the whole thing with the dam breaking was science and that i all. I liked this scene the best because it was funny and the guys played the part well. I liked how the men still cracked jokes even when they where in trouble. Overall i really liked the movie and i thought it was cool to see how closely related this movie was to the odyssey.

Embracing Life

Seeing the beautiful glistening sun after months of rain was like a small child running into her fathers arms for the first time. Seeing the happy smile break across her fathers face as they run across the fresh mowed lawn to embrace one another.

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Assignment Overview

I haven't made alot of progress though but i do know who will be in my group and we are pretty sure about when we would like to film the movie. My group for the movie project wil inlcude me, Ellie, and Mya. We have brain stormed some ideas about who we would like to play in the trailer. I would like to be George, Ellie wants to be Slim, and Mia will be Lennie. I also would like to see if one of my other friends can help out in the movie to so that we arent short handed and we have enough people. I hope to film the trailer sometime this weekend, becasue during the school week will be to hectic. Some of the things that i hope to do is introduce all the characters in the beginning and then go into the trailer, and make it really exciting. Overall i 'm still figuring out alot of things about what we want to do with the trailer but i'm super excited and really glad that Mrs. Gilman assigned us this project.

The Notebook / Romeo and Juliet

This trailer reminds me of Romeo and Juliet because of how much they really love one another. Noah and Ally where from two totally separate lives. Ally was wealthy and Noah was poor. In Romeo and Juliet both of them are from the same class but their parents despise one another. In the Notebook Noah and Ally fall in love but Allys parents do not want her going out with him. Ally must move away and forget about Noah. She finds someone who she ends up falling in love with and her parents very much approve. In Romeo and Juliet, Their parents would never have agreed to let them get married, and Juliet's parents want her to marry Paris who she does not love. In the end Ally comes back to Noah and they die together after living a long and happy life. Both Romeo and Juliet love each other so much they are willing to give up their lives for one another, just like ally is willing to give up everything for Noah.



* i found this trailer when i looked up the Notebook on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3G3fILPQAU

Pictures are worth a 1,000 words!

This picture was taken by myself. This picture reminds me of Romeo and Juliet because both Romeo and Juliet were not allowed to be together. Their lives were so different and yet they were alike in many ways. This pictures represents their life. Its like they have a wall between one another, or that how their parents would like it to be. Overall this picture reminded me of Romeo and Juliet because of how they are supposed to be apart yet they love each other so much that they are willing to risk their lives to stay together.

Scene Two Romantics

My favorite scene in act two of Romeo and Juliet is the balcony scene. This scene is my favorite because i love the way they speak to one another. The way Shakespeare wrote it was so poetic and romantic but yet it was still funny at parts. In this scene Romeo cannot stand to be away from Juliet so he climbs up to her balcony and starts speaking to her. At first Romeo is talking softly so Juliet does not here him. She starts talking about how she loves Romeo, when she finds him on her balcony. They talk for a while and they decide they will wed the next afternoon. I think this scene will affect both Romeo and Juliet greatly. I think this will affect them because they both want to marry one another but neither of there family's know. This could cause great problems because in the future if their parents found out they could be banished from seeing one another, and they could get in trouble because they wont stop seeing one another. I think that this scene opens up everything to go wrong from then on. Their love just is not made to work, so when they have balcony scenes like this you know that they future wont be good when their parents find out. If i were Juliet in this situation i think that i would would be very excited that Romeo came back to see me. At the same time though i would be very frightened for because Romeo snuck up on me like that. my reaction would be both confusion, frustration because i know he shouldn't be here, and love. Overall though if i where Juliet the love would win over and the scene would most likely play out for me just like it did in the book. Overall i am thoroughly enjoying Romeo and Juliet and cannot wait to read more!

Dramatic Players

One character that truly stands out to me in Romeo and Juliet is Romeo. Based off of the way he speaks and acts during scene one he seems like he would be a very dramatic person to be around. The way that he speaks about Rosalyn makes me think that he could be quite annoying. what makes him so dramatic is that he says things like teach me how not to think. He is saying that he could never forget about Rosalyn, but the second he see's Juliet he says he has never truly loved before he saw her. This seemed to show me that not only is he dramatic but he seems shallow. To jump from one girl to the next makes me think he was never really serious about the first girl so all that talk of never loving another girl apart from Rosalyn was for nothing. Although Romeo seems to have some problems so does everyone else, and overall i think that Romeo would be a kind honest person to be around. I think that Romeo looks handsome, with thick brown wavy hair and brown eyes that are as deep and thick as chocolate. now i can see why Juliet falls for him. One person that i know that i could defiantly compare Romeo to is my friend Hailee. Sometimes she over dramatizes things and freaks out over very little things that really aren't that important, but that makes her, her. I still love hanging out with her which is why i think Romeo would be just as fun to meet and get to know.

Lessons Learned

One of the biggest premonitions that i have ever had was right before my first basketball game of the season. My team and i were on our way to play the hardest team in the league and i was freaking out. For some reason i kept feeling like someone was going to get badly injured during the game, and that someone was going to be me. All my friends told me that i was just freaking myself out and i would be fine but i still felt like i was going to get hurt. Within the first ten seconds of the game i went up to block a shot and the girl on the opposite team pushed me down. I landed on my wrist backwards and the impact snapped it. Because of that one shot i blocked i was out for the whole season. If i just would have been a little more careful and went with my gut feeling i probably would have been fine for the season. The reason that i neglected listening to my gut feeling is because i really wanted to win the game. We had never beaten the team so the whole team was working really hard. If i just would have been a little more careful we might have won. I also thought that maybe i was just freaking myself out so i just ignored my feelings. overall i am sad that i broke my wrist and we lost the game but it taught me a good lesson, to listen to myself when something really doesn't feel right.

Shakspearen movies

One movie that i can relate very closely to the theme from Romeo and Juliet is the Notebook. In the Notebook both the man and women are crazy about each other, they do everything together. After the Parents of the girl meet the boy though they do not approve of him. They think that she deserves better so they force her to move. This is like romeo and Juliet because in both movies the parents do not approve of the couples dating and they try to force them apart. I think the directors of the Notebook closely related the play Romeo and Juliet to their movie. Although the Notebook seems to be taken from Shakespeare many others do the same as well. Another movie That uses Shakespeare's ideas is 27 Dresses. In this movie the girl is in love with her boss but the boss is getting married to the womens younger sister. The movie is just Like a Midsummer Nights dream. The women is in love with a man who loves her friend. It seemed that Shakespeare was there directing the movie. The characters seemed to match the plays characters almost perfectly.Although these are just two of the many movies that have been copied after Shakespeare's writing he was an amazing writer which is why i hope people make more movies with his ideas for years and years to come.

Shakespearian writing

When i heard we were going to read Romeo and Juliet i was very excited. I have never read or seen a movie on the play, but i have heard much, and know plot the plot line well. then i heard we were watching a midsummers night dream and i was even more thrilled. After watching the movie i feel it is defiantly easier to understand what Shakespeare was saying. It was defiantly helpful to me because now i have an understanding of What Shakespeare will sound like in Romeo and Juliet. Before we started the movie felt that i new the language fairly well but it could defiantly be improved.Overall what helped the most was Mrs. Gilman telling us about the movie before we watched it. This was helpful because then i had an understanding of what was going on even if i didn't fully understand what was being said. My favorite part of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the plot. I loved how Shakespeare switched it up so one minute someone loved this person but the next they were in love with someone else. I was very sad though in the end when it turned out it was all a dream. Other then that it was one of my favorite movies and i defiantly look forward to reading and seeing Romeo and Juliet over the next few months.

Terrible Tragedy

The most disturbing part of Animal Farm for me is when Napoleon says he is sending Boxer to an animal hospital but he is actually going to kill him. After Boxer splits his hoof he never seems to be himself again. He can not work as hard ,although he trys, and he is getting to the age where he should no longer be working. On one occasion Boxer is working by himself and he falls. When the animals realize the tragedy it is to late. Boxer is hurt to bad to work any longer. Clover nurses him for a few weeks but he can no longer do anymore work. Napoleon tells everyone not to worry, and that Boxer will get the best care he could get from the hospital he is going to. It turns out Boxer is not going to the hospital he is going to a slaughter house. This was defiantly the most depressing thing for me in this book because throughout the whole book Boxer worked so hard, and then the second he gets hurt and can not work anymore Napoleon ships him off to be killed. Overall this was defiantly the saddest part in the book for me and i hope the animals come to realize how truly terrible Napoleon really is.

Animal Farm

When i first heard that we where reading animal farm in class i wasn't very excited. Everyone that had read this book before me told me it was not a good book and they thought it was very boring. As i started reading though i decided that i really enjoyed it. It was nice that we had the assignment about the Russian revolution because even though it was alot of work i wouldn't have understanded the book without it. One of my favorite things in the book is that all the animals are based off of real life characters. As i was reading i was able to compare the humans to the animals and i really enjoyed seeing the resemblance. One thing that i really do not like about animal farm is the way the pigs are treating the animals. It is really getting on my nerves that they are breaking their own commandments. What's worse though is the other animals are letting them do it. I really hate that the animals are so stupid and naive. I know they are supposed to play that part because it is based off the Russian revolution but i really wish the animals had more depth to them. Overall i am enjoying animal farm and i hope that the animals get tougher and stand up to the pigs in the future.

Winter festivities

Freezing was all i could think as i stood there covered in snow. It was horrible, my nose was cold and with four pairs of socks and boots my toes still felt worse then frost bitten. It all started when it began snowing. At first i loved the snow it was great. It was beutiful and fun to play in as long as you can go in when your cold. I soon found out that when there is more then a foot of snow and your outside working its not so enjoyable. You may not know this but i have 37 cows. We live on a farm and they are all out in a huge field. They aren't usually a big problem(when there's no snow). As the snow was piling up the fence that was keeping our cows in started to droop. It got so heavy that the fenced collapsed. Saturday morning we get this call saying that a cow is in the middle of the road. So we go outside to check and sure enough its just standing there wondering what to do. So we rush back inside to get dressed, so we can go get the cow back in the pasture. Me of course being the smart person that i am didn't put on any socks. I thought"oh we won't be out there for very long." As we were walking down to take care of the cow in the road a police car drives up. He says he got a call saying there was a cow in the road and he came down to see what he could do. We said "Thanks but we can handle it ourselves." After getting down to the pasture my mom tells me go back up and put socks on before your toes freeze, and my aunt goes get me some gummy bears! so i go back up to my house put four pairs of socks on put my boots back on get the gummy bears and run back down to the field. When i get down there, there is a cow in the lane. (the lane is the road between the two fields that we use to drive in and out of when working with the cows). So i hopp the fence to get to my mom and this cow starts running. I have no idea what it is doing but apparently i am not big enough to scare it because it is coming right towards me. I jump in to a ditch and just miss the dumb cow. By then i am starting to get cold and on top of that i am now wet because of lying in the snow. I get to my aunt and we end of standing off to the side of the fence eating gummy bears and watching as my dad trys to get all the cows into the other field which doesn't have any broken fences. Two hours later i come to the point that i was at, at the beginning of my story. I am standing there eating frozen gummy bears, my toes are completely numb and my nose is freezing. I beg my mom until she finally says i can go back up to my house and get my feet warm. before i go though my aunt warns me put your feet in luke warm water first and gradually get the water warmer other wise your feet will hurt really bad. So i go back to my house and decide i am just going to put my feet into the tub of boiling water because they are so cold i cant stand it. I put my feet in and at first its nice and i wonder what my aunt was talking about. Then all of the sudden i start having this searing pain going through my feet. I ripp my feet out of the water and know i am lying there on the floor my feet are still cold but now i have this horrible pain from the warm water. (now i know what my aunt was talking about). Anyways the moral of my story is when dealing with cows make sure you keep your feet warm. Although i didn't have the most amazing experiences over winter break i still had alot of fun and enjoyed every bit of it.