Response to Course Material

Where does one start when we had such a busy month! I guess I will start with my very first fish bowl experience. I was at first intrigued by the idea of a conversation held just by a few, but once I experienced it I realized it is very similar to Socratic discussions; the only difference was that I caught my self zoning out while conversations were going on. The next exercise that stuck with me was the mood and atmosphere paragraph. Each time we wrote a paragraph about the pictures given I felt like an author. I am sure a few books were inspired by pictures because it is easy to create a story to fit with the image, like the picture of the angry men, we kept trying to write about what they were looking at and the event lead up to their anxious faces. I truly hope we continue to do more of these exercises which are not only fun but also help me focus on using strong verbs. I think that ending with Shakespeare's  Hamlet is fitting because it follows our classes schedule. I am so excited to hear other people's opinions on this play because tragedies are not experienced the same way they were during Shakespeare's time. But the last scene did remind me of "Game of Thrones" because there is an episode where the Starks go to a wedding and the whole crew is killed by the insane fief lord. When I relate Hamlet to this episode it is easier to view the play as tragic and not comedic, but still the way people just dropped in this play was a bit comedic.