Role writing in Ghetto.

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The Response Phase

In role writing:

        Look at him he’s just a geek sitting there doing his work like teacher’s pet with no breaks. “Oi four eyes what are you doing?”

“urrgghh… Just doing the work how we’re supposed to.”

“Well carry on, you can do my work afterwards as well.”

        Why can’t he stop picking on me he always makes fun of me for no reason. What have I ever done to him? Just because my dad got a new job and we had to move here doesn’t justify what he’s been doing. No one else in the class gets picked on just me because I’m the new kid, it makes me feel so small and alone. How would he like it if I bullied him? He’d probably be feeling exactly as I am now he’s no different from me. I bet the reason why he’s making fun of me is because he’s lonely, stupid and unable to cope with the work set, maybe if I just ignore him he’ll stop. Or will he? What if he doesn’t stop? I’ll never be able to enjoy school again and If I complain no one will do anything just tell me it’ll be alright.

        “Have you finished my work yet?”

Just stand up to him, what’s the worst that can happen. “No I’m not going to do it, do it yourself otherwise you won’t get anything out of it.”

“You’re even more stupid than I thought, don’t you know what happens to people who don’t do what I say. You asked for it wait until I get over there.”

        I shouldn’t have done that If I’ve just got myself into deeper trouble, he’s gonna hit me until I do his work. Why didn’t I just carry on and do his work in the first place?

It’s too late he’s here now you’re gonna get it…….

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        We were told to write a piece of in role writing about an incident when you were bullied or you were the bully and describe the emotions you’d be feeling. We did this because Stainslavski uses it as an acting technique where when he’s playing a character in an emotional state he will rememeber back to an upsetting time and will use this to really feel the emotion. He does this with joyful characters as well. I also think we may have done this because some people may have written about a gang of bullies with some of them not wanting to bully someone but being forced to by the others like some of the Nazi soldiers in Germany that were forced to persecute Jews.

        Before Dustin Hoffman is playing a character in a film he feels he needs to walk around being the character so he can live his life being that character and even become the character and see how he would feel in normal life situations. This is relating to Stainslavski’s idea of using your own emotion in drama.

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        We also did an exercise in class where all the blue eyed people were superior and got to have complete power over the majority that weren’t blue eyed.  I think that this was using one of Hitler’s beliefs that he wanted to create a superior race of blonde blue eyed people. Some of our blue eyed group had friends in the other group and wanted their friends to join them. Some of the Germans may have been in a similar situation but were forced to kill Jews because they were so afraid of Hitler and their superiors in the ...

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