Green Light

At first, my group read through the scenes together and then we decided upon who each person will play.  This was done easily and there were no disputes during this part.  Then we split the group in two and worked on the two scenes separately.  I was working on Act V Scene II with Ali Ro., Joe, and Lauren.  We discussed our costumes and the set, as well as working on blocking the movements during our scenes and memorizing our lines.  The group works extremely well together and everyone gets their points of view in without being put down.  Yesterday, we divided up the jobs for the prompt book and are beginning to work on them. 

For my independant reading assignment, I will be reading A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power.  The book discusses genocide in the last century and reflects on the failing promises of world leaders to stop it.  When we were first asked to bring in a visual representation of evil, many people brought in pictures of Hitler or other representations of the Holocaust.  Of course, the Holocaust has a section devoted to it in this book.  However, as I read through the table of contents, I noticed that the Holocaust was one of only a couple of genocides that I recognized.  It should be interesting to see whether or not most of these examples of genocide are similar to each other.  With only previous knowledge of the Holocaust and a few other examples of genocide from social studies courses, I hope to gain a larger understanding of the “evil” behind genocide by reading this book.