last week's drama lesson:
sorry, but I lost the paper with our 10 issues
I remember some of them were
war
laughter
tradition/religion
epidemic outbreak
mental illness
( pls tell me if you remember the other so that I can add them in.)

the 3 issues we selected out of the 10 are:
1)suicide
2)family
3)friendship

for suicide, we had ruisian as the main character who was about to jump off a building
liyi and I , a couple, were shocked to see what was happening
xinda, a passerby, was calling the police
the others, most likely related to ruisian in one way or another, were persuading her not to jump

family
we broke this issue up into two, happy and loving family VS a family with communication problems

loving family consist of linhui, chiouchyong, xin da and liyi.
the children were playing happily while the parents were behind them watching
the other family consist of me, rui sian, zhu hong, michelle
the parents had an argument and their back were facing each other. The children were very disturbed by what they see.
We chose to construct two scenes as it will show the contrast between the two families

friends
rui sian and zhu hong are good friends. however, the other friends of zhu hong hate rui sian and isolate her. not only that, they tried to make zhu hong stop being friends with rui sian by telling her all the negative side of her, leaving zhu hong very confused.

this week's lesson:

pictures speaks a thousand words








if the pictures are not clear, you can come and ask me for the paper

basically, our lesson started with brainstorming
mdm oehlers gave us 4 big pieces of papers with the words
TIES
SISTERS
FAMILY
LOSS
we had to think of words that are related to the 4 words
and the above is what we came out with

after that we proceed on with making up a story about FAMILY

ONE:
the protagonist of this story is a tom-boyish girl. Her mother wants to make her daughter more ladylike.
[My own idea: perhaps the mother forces her to wear dresses which the girl finds irritating and uncomfortable. so one day the girl could not stand it anymore and broke into an argument with her mother]

TWO:
this story is about 2 sisters. Their character is very different. One of them is very outspoken and outgoing while the other is shy and soft spoken. This shows contrast between the two characters, one strong another weak. As the stronger sister is adopted, the parents show favouritism towards the weaker one. The stronger sister, being ambitious and jealous of her sister (beauty/talent/unfair treatment), tries hard to gain parent's attention and wants to outshine her sister. As she gets stronger and stronger, the other gets weaker and weaker. The weaker sister has a hidden talent, but being outshined by her sister, she is unable to show her talent. This story will be about how the weaker sister manages to show off her talent.

THREE:
main character: mother
the mother wants her pair of twins to be identical, so she bought the similar dresses, make them learn the same things, take up same courses and lessons and more. However, the twins, with different personalities, wanted to be different.
[My idea: one of the twins can be more tom-boyish, another more girly.]

Mdm Oehlers mentioned about our topic leaning towards “IDENTITY” but since she say it is okay, I don’t think we have to worry too much about it

that’s all

Chiawei:D