Due to the major delay and problems while filming the play, Mrs. Wilson and the whole ninth grade class has voted off the unit. However, we can't just end like that, we have to evaluate and identify what the problem was.
In the beginning, the unit seems fun to the both students and teachers; meaning Mr Thompson and Mrs Wilson. the students were all excited about the costumes and casting and who's script was going to be chosen. However, in the mid process of the unit, half the class went away to ACAMIS which is the answer to the confusions after everyone had returned from China and Germany, and whatever. The success of this unit was how eager everyone was to start the unit. And after a few confusions, the whole class decided that we were wasting too much time preparing and that we should just get on with it. We tried to get as much as videoing done last class, but the whole 80 minutes was not enough. Mrs. Wilson said that since we could not afford to lose any time by memorizing lines, everyone could look at their script while performing and at the end we could just cut the scenes out. But seeing how much time we've already wasted, that was not a big deal. Not only were we wasting our time, we were wasting the Language B people's time as well. Since they had not even read the play Much Ado about Nothing and they did not write their own scripts, they were kind of bored and were just sitting around for the last couple of lessons.
I do not think that the unit was planned out thoroughly and that caused us to FAIL. Since this was the first time doing this unit, some obstacles were expected. However, Mrs Wilson herself admitted how much she hated this unit and she just did not want to waste any more time doing it when she could clearly see that it was getting us nowhere. For further improvements, (if they plan on doing this unit again), the teacher should make a plan for every lesson of what the class needs to do so everyone will have to meet a deadline for the memorization of their lines, and to bring in their costumes and such.
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