Halloween

Our class was split into three groups for a special Halloween activity. We were all assigned to make a scene based off the poem, "The Raven," by Edgar Allen Poe. Like the PPP, this was to act as out stimulus. We had to find an area to stage our little performance but it couldn't be in our classroom; it had to be a part of the performing arts center or the workrooms and hallways that come out of it. Our group chose the workshop because there was a creepy feeling there with the fence and all the paint and the hammers from creating the sets. Ours was about a person who had accidentally murdered someone a few years back and was now a grumpy old lady who didn't give out Halloween candy for the little kids because she was haunted by the soul she had killed and was afraid. I'm not sure how it came out because I never got to see it from the audience's point of view, but watching junior Anna drag senior Anna like she was dead was pretty awesome. It actually looked pretty real. The other two groups were awesome though. Noelia's group was pretty funny with it being a Halloween party and someone prank-knocking on the door. When the real trick-or-treaters came, she flipped out and was like I'M GOING TO CALL YOUR PARENTS, YOU EVIL CHILDREN. Both of our groups did not use our setting as well as the last group though. Selena's group used the whole seating area to create a kind of haunted house and I have no idea how to describe it but it was totally creative and really fun to watch. This activity was pretty fun but the poem was really hard to understand. That was my biggest issue with this. Edgar Allen Poe's English is way too advanced for me to be able to understand.