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Train scene - Act 2

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Teenager and Uncle Argument In class we talked about how to create a good piece of drama act. On Tuesday's drama lesson we all started with a warm up exercise that helped us improve our performances. We were all asked to sit in a circle, and then we were given different scenarios which had different emotions being conveyed. Although, we had to act out the given emotion or scenario without talking, only with the use of facial expressions, to convey our emotion. This helped bring out depth to our drama performance piece, as it helped us convey different emotions with a more sightful meaning to it. Also, this made our task of acting a lot easier as it gave some practice to us. Our scenario was to continue our train surfer scene. In the previous act we looked at a train surfer who is getting late to reach home, and on the way meets another train surfer who is injured. They are unsure at first but they decide to help them, and this causes even more delay for them to reach home. At hom

Marking the Moment

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In class lesson overview: In class for the past few lessons we have looked at creating a realistic and believable drama piece/act. We have started to look at people in Rio, Brazil. We have looked at the rich and poor contrast there is in one city. For example there could be people living in big houses in a safe society with a good job and income, whereas in the same city there would be people living in horrible conditions, and their income would be difficult to manage their family. In class we looked at the different aspects that force or persuade someone to move to a different city. We have started to look at Rural to Urban living. Many people living in rural cities/town would have such factors forcing them to move to an urban city/town. Rural is the countryside and Urban is the city side.  Many people may want to move to an urban city because of the number of pull factors it has. many people choose to go to urban cities in search for a better lifestyle, and a better job to