Reflection

During this project I learned a lot about connections and correlations. We had to find a connection between our resilient community members and our person from the past. Sometimes this was very difficult because we chose two people who seemed to have nothing in common. My partner and I went through about three different people before settling on Clara Barton and Lynn Grady. Then we had to connect them. We had be creative to find a connection between the two but if you think about it they are actually very similar. Our final connection was that Clara had seen suffering in others by nursing during the civil war and Lynn also saw suffering but within her self instead of in others.
I think that My spoken Word piece turned out very good. Katie and I worked really hard on choosing good music for the background. We wanted it to really represent our two people. I think I was very professional when we presented our spoken word both Wednesday and Thursday. We explained our two people, the song and the connection, which I don't think anyone else did. I was kind of nervous to get up in front of all those people and talk and see what they thought of the song but I think I concealed it rather well and not many people could tell.
I worked very hard on my music/spoken word. It took me a while to think of an idea to incorporate both Clara Barton and Lynn Grady. I also had to think of a way to write about both of their accomplishments and make it long enough so it wasn't like three seconds long. I started about three different poems before finishing and polishing the one we used. I used quite a bit of history in my poem about Clara Barton and Lynn Grady, well mostly Clara because Lynn isn't that old. Like i said she was called the angel of the battlefield and how she walked where no woman had walked before which are actually true facts that I read in a book. Lynn I just wrote about my experience at home, since she is my mom. All of the things that you heard in her section of the piece actually happened. Trust me I was there.
All in all I really like this project and I think I did pretty well on it. My mom went to a group she has for her breast cancer and shared the book we made her with all the ladies there and she said that a lot of them cried. They said it was really nice and sweet of us to do that for my mom.