Student Research Conference

In on our Advance English class, we were asked to do a reflection on the Award Ceremony of The English Literature Contest 2015. We were very proud of two of our classmates, since they won 2^nd and 3^rd place in such contest. I attended this conference, but sadly I had to go early since I was called for work, and didn't stay much time in the ceremony. For this reason, I will be doing a reflection on the Skit we did for a Student Research Conference, a couple of weeks ago. We were assigned to create a skit with a discrimination topic, and performed it in front of an audience.

My group and I, THE writers, choose the topic about racism to Latin Americans. So we created a scene, where a professional person has to go on a business trip and is wrongfully accused by a TSA agent. Creating the skit was a bit of a struggle, since we are not producers or actors, and to write a whole play is not easy. We have to think of every single detail, and as easy that may sound, it’s not. Another hard part of doing this skit was including a poem about discrimination into the script. My group and I decided to make the poem part of the dialogue. It was hard to make it work, and make it look like a normal dialogue but that the audience understood it was a reference. It was scary, since it was different than doing it in front of the class; instead we were perform it in front of strangers. We had to make them understand what we were doing and why, and deliver the message. At the end of the day, I enjoyed writing the play and acting in it.  It was a good experience since we could see what playwrights and actors go through and we take for granted.