-Andre (agent 0022)
At first, I thought the play was going to fail. Now, I have MANY feelings, and only one of them is bad because this is truly the only school year the never slowed down. To get it over with, I’m going to start my reflection with that one bad feeling. Confusion. I just am confused on what I’m going to do now, because the fourth grade play is over, and it took me a while to realise that. I don’t want to dwell on the thought that it’s over, so I’ll talk about how I feel better. The truth is that I just feel smarter, more confident,and better overall because of all of the learning and great experiences mixed together From the play.
It’s a truly amazing feeling to have. I also feel proud because of all the things that 217 has accomplished. I mean, we wrote a full on play! Through the play, I’ve gotten to know all of the people in 217 better, and now they feel like family. Lastly, I feel like the play went extremely well because of all of the laughs that I heard when I was backstage, and all of the smiling faces I saw when I was onstage. In short, the play was AWESOME! :{)
And I just want to say,”Thank you Mr. Crame!”
Felix
I am so excited about learning how to harness the sheer and mysterious power of writing. But it wasn’t just learning because we have made the best play since Shakespeare. Now I feel like I can move into 5th grade more confident with my writing skills than ever before. I know that my writing and creativity skills have been finely tuned in fourth grade. But now I feel like there is a hole in my life with nothing to do after this outstanding play. Through it all, I realized that Mr. Crame is the best teacher.
The End
Sofa D.
I feel like a pile of flesh. My bones aren’t doing anything, so it feels like they aren’t there. Before the play, my whole body was doing something. Practicing, worrying, there was always something to do. At the same time, I feel like a 2 ton broken air conditioner was lifted off my shoulders. I feel lost. Even at the beginning of the year, when we didn’t know what we were doing for the play, I was still thinking about it. I realized that every single thing we did, projects, reflections, everything I thought we did that was something by itself, not leading into anything, was actually leading to the play. But now that the play is over, we still have a week left! What do we do now?! I have realized, after Mr. Crame told us this a million times, that the play is leading up to the rest of our lives. All in all, The ONLY thing I have learned this year is that:
Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Our Lives!!!
(remember that)
- Sofia
- sofa king
- sofa
James
I feel that the play went very well because everyone in the audience laughed, gasped, and were scared for the characters when they were supposed to. This makes me feel great because it shows that the emotions we were trying to portray got across to the audience. This makes me feel great because we rocked it! I also think that even though we messed up a lot in rehearsals our talent really came through. All in all it has been a great year.
THE END
Sydnie:
Before
Although I am nervous, I think that the play will go pretty well. The one thing I am most scared about is that the sound effects will not have the correct timing, like the last runthrough where we had to redo Jenner’s part 5 times. But I am not as worried about that as before, since we, as the actors can make it go smoothly even if the sound doesn’t go so smoothly. Also I think the sound guys have done a better job being on time recently. Otherwise, I believe that it will run as smoothly as possible.
After
Even though I am a little sad, I am also feel very relieved and accomplished. Like Sofa D. said “It feels like I have a 2 ton air conditioner off of my back”, because there is 2 tons of pressure that I don’t have to worry about. Now that it is over I want to do it again, because it feels like I memorized all the lines for nothing since it is over. But I am still EXTREMELY happy that we pulled it off, and even when we made mistakes like when I put my goggles on my hat always fell off, or when the sound effects wouldn’t play everyone would laugh, or not notice, and we still did good wait we didn’t do good we did GREAT. But now as Sofa keeps say, WHAT DO WE DO NEXT, THE ONLY THING WE HAVE BEEN DOING IS LEADING UP TO THE PLAY, SO WHAT WILL WE BE DOING NOW!?!?!?!?
-Joe Agent 005 :{)
Before
I feel nervous that something is going to go wrong and the play is going to be mess up. I am also nervous that I will get nervous and have stage fright. What if Sarah, Owen or me forget our lines and ruin the scene? What if the tech crew doesn't get their cue? What if we make a mistake and the audience laughs at us? I’m just nervous. But, I think we can still do this correctly. Lets do this!!!
After
Well the play is over, and it went really well! I did good as Brutus. It kind of stinks that it is over because it was fun. But I am also happy because it was hard doing it and we did awesome!The parents loved it! Before the play I was nervous. My scene went well. No one messed up their lines and the tech crew was fine. I think the play went better than I thought! I love singing songs and parodies so Sugar was awesome. I really don't care what song it is as long as I can sing I bet there will be another small project! I think Mr. Crame is going to pull a
RED BOX!!!
Mia:
I feel like Jeremy, happy to be unraveled from the string, but still looking for something shiny that glistens like the MOON!!! I feel so lively yet so lifeless. Almost like I’m living a life of opposites. I was expecting more laughs from the family performance, and I was expecting less for 5,6,and 7. Normally I would be so happy that school is almost over, but for some strange and mysterious reason I don’t want to go on vacation. Now about the play, I thought that every time the sound effects would go wrong, but they didn’t go wrong at all. Now, that the play is over I feel like a lazy couch potato, that has no job, living in a crummy apartment watching T.V. all day. There is nothing to do, I feel that I have paid off my tribute to the world. I feel so cold, and at the same time this room is burning hot.
I don’t want to ever leave 4th grade. I feel that this is my place. This is where I stay. I want to be frozen in 217, for the rest of my life. Wait, never mind I take that back. Let me restate the sentence, I don't want to go to 5th grade. This has been the best year of school I could ever possibly have. And I have grown to really enjoy school. I will always remember this play and all the other things in fourth grade, like naming after pants in Polish.
Evelyn:
I feel almost empty. Everything we have done has lead to the play, which was unexpected considering it all started with fear fest. Who knew at the time? It all lead us here to the epitome of 4th grade. For me this was so exciting at the beginning now I fell like a tension was released only to be brought on again at a even more stressful force. I am almost frustrated it is over but i am ready even more than before for what lies ahead. Especially considering Mr. Crame said the play is the last big project, except now, he says no there's another project and is pulling the redbox. My feelings have changed much at the beginning it was exciting then I was scared of much that could go wrong. Now I am relieved, sad and ready for the future. The play has taught us a lot of things. But, the one thing that I realized the most in the end was that “ It always seems impossible until it is done. I realize it is not emptiness that has consumed me but a realization of all that the play has done for us.
