Bernhardt

Question 4:

                I’ve never really thought about it. Why do we have to write essays that follow specific formats? Does it make it easier for teachers to skim through or to actually read in a less tedious manner? I don’t really know what the answer is, but I would guess it has something to do with keeping writings in a more uniform manner that is more easily graded. This is really the first time I thought about this question and now I am thinking up different ways to write essays, but then maybe it helps students keep up with word count or page count without getting points docked for making letters too big or having too much space in-between everything.

AEI1:

                Actually, senior year in High School, I had one English “multigenre” project in which I had to make three separate pieces of media to write about a certain topic. I actually played “Judge Turpin” in Sweeney Todd that year for my school, so I chose that show as my topic. I chose to re-edit an animation to show facts about the show’s origin as it played as one of the forms of media, I also was able to use the poster for the actual show (because I was the one who designed it) as my second form. And my third was a fake newspaper article I wrote up from the perspective of the police that show up at the end of the show. It was very different and, since I had control over literally everything, fun too!

Copyright note: The only thing here that I do not own, is the song in the video. Everything else is my own original work. The song rights belong to Steven Sondheim and the company responsible for this particular recording.