Humanities
Difficult conversations summary
Chapter 2 - Stop arguing about who's right: In this chapter of difficult conversations, it talks about something called the "And Stance". When we view things, people interpret things in different ways depending on their past, and own creative way. This means that when people get in an argument over their interpretations, both of them are correct. It's similar to looking at a cylinder. When you shine a light on it, it either appears as a circle or square. Both shadows are correct even though they are different.
Chapter 3 - Disentangle intent from impact: The things we do is a result of our intentions. Most of the time, our intentions are to not hurt people, but this can fail sometimes. Just because your intentions were good doesn't give you an excuse to not take responsibility for the bad impact you had. It's like telling somebody "I didn't mean to hurt you, so you're not allowed to feel hurt". Chapter 4 - The blame frame: Everyone makes a blame at some point. Whenever you make a blame, that means you are judging somebody. There are two types of blamers: the shifter and the absorber. The shifter likes to point the finger at somebody else while the absorber thinks its all their fault and has a pity party. It's good to map out the contribution system and not blame others or yourself. The blame frame is complicated, but learning how your contributions affected the situation is the key to help not put anybody at fault. Chapter 5 - The feelings conversation: Most of the times, we try to hide our feelings from taking over the conversation. Sometimes we hide our feelings in another topic and try to avoid them as much as possible. It's important to recognize your emotional footprint and make sure your feelings don't have you. Feelings are difficult to express because most fear being vulnerable. Chapter 6 - Identity: Our identity is who we are as a person. Most times our identity can be knocked off balance due to many things. The 3 most vulnerable spots is competence, good person, and worthy of love. This wasn't mentioned in the book, but gender can also be attacked. When our identity is knocked, it means we weren't the person we thought we were. It's important to know that we will always be knocked down. The real deal is knowing wether you're albe to pull yourself back up. |
Forum Theatre Skit
Forum theatre is a type of performance where the audience gets to interact. The performers perform their stuff first and then the second performance haves the audience interrupt the scene and they get to perform how they'd like.
Our Hamilton performance was not forum, but we had to do research on a person or event in the revolution era. My person was Paul Revere, a legendary man in revolutionary times. I wrote a poem about him during his midnight ride before the battle of Lexington green.
The purpose of this project was for the Hamilton project thingy where an actual musical of Hamilton would perform. Our performances would then be submitted. Who ever's performance was amazing, they would be elected to perform in front of many different high schools.
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