Blog #5

So we did the trailers...TIGHT! I was really happy with how ours turned out. Hopefully we will have a successful documentary, my one concern is that we might not be able to get our interviewee's to say what we want them to say in order to be relevant in our video.

This weeks Reading was okay, I like the fact that we haven't switched back to the documentary based readings and that we're looking at the readings in a more traditional English class style. My classmates would hate me for saying this but I think that future voices classes should a good book or two. I really miss Reading and I've fallen out of my old reading habit that i had after sophomore year, I'm worried that because I haven't been Reading this year that I won't be ready for college level english. I'm not saying that it should be a super complicated ap lit. type book but just a fun read that we could have group discussions about. I feel like the readings tease me back into wanting to read more, especially last weeks Kafka piece.

Blog #5

1. We're planning to get our first documentary footage this weekend! Were excited to get started on our project and we're hoping that it isn't a flop. Hopefully people will appreciate our topic and our film, if not it will have been a wasted couple of months.

2. I enjoyed the Langston Hughes poem this week. It brought back memories of Carol Horswills English class my sophomore year because we read the same poem. I've been a Langston Hughes fan since then, I like the subtle angst that he inserts in his poems that represent the struggle of a young black man. I had read the poem before so I didn't really learn much but I enjoyed revisiting it. Hughes had such a distinctive style of writing so it's a nice change of pace from documentary readings...BORING! This poem was actually interesting so it was cool.