Personal Reflection

And so the journey continues..
Now that we have brought our second posting in Humanities 10 to an end, it is time for another personal reflection. This 'unit' in Humanities we read and watched the play Fiddler on the Roof, and focused on globalization. This showed me in good ways and bad, that not everyone is as lucky and well treated as we are here in Canada.

Throughout this whole journey, we did lots of projects, individual and team. Looking back at all of the projects we did, the one I enjoyed most, and thought I did best on, was the team comparison, poster and review. This challenged our group to agree and debate on certain topics or thoughts, and when someone didn't agree, the rest of our group had to challenge themselves to persuade the other. Being persuasive is something that myself as a Humanities student needed to work on, and although I worked on it and am more confident now than I was before this mission, I can still work on it. Setting goals is something I'm good at, which is something I feel helps me in this class.

If there was an assignment that I could take back or re-do, it would have to be the written response song interpretation. I feel like I could have gone into deeper thought and expanded on my ideas. However, I feel that I had a good view and interpretation of the song. Something I continue to struggle with sometimes is putting 150% into all of my assignments. But as the journey continues, the assignments are going to continue to challenge me in ways that no other course will, which is why I have no regrets taking Humanities.

Interview Conclusion

 With this assignment, I feel I was very challenged in that my two interviewees were almost   completely oposite. While interviewing my Canadian of 40 years, not only did he express how beautiful he thought Canada was geographically, but ecologically as well. He felt as if there was no better place on Earth to grow up, raise a family and enjoy life. Leaving Canada is something he would never think of doing. However the immigrant I interviewed thought the exact opposite. Whether it was the food, accents, or social structure, she was not a fan. She expressed that from her point of view, Canada is very gudgemental, and being from Germany, and having an alternate lifestyle I can understand that. However, she did like how there were others here like her, and how she found a place where she fit in.

Being Canadian isn't just the status of being free in and in a country that is very wealthy, but being accepted for who you are, and what you want.

Team Movie Review & Comparison

Movie & Play Comparison

Prospects

Recently, in Humanities, our grade ten class finished reading the play Fiddler on the Roof. Once the class finished reading the novel, we perused the movie, produced in 1971. As the class we enjoyed the film, however, the groups we are split into for our interactive learning has a few distinct things we would like to say.

As the book started and continued though until the end, we thought it had a good plot, as there was always something to be laughing about, and always something to mock. Both the film and the book clearly lived up to their expectations to be not only entertaining, but challenged us and our beliefs as well as our traditions. Another characteristic of the story line that took it above and beyond was the excellent choreographing in the movie, such as the dance scenes or arguments.

Although most of group didn’t like Fiddler on the Roof, it had points of interest. When we weren’t mocking or making snide comments about the movie, there were parts where we caught ourselves smiling, which for all of us made it not a complete waste of time.

Movie Review

Fiddler on the Roof

The Prospects

           This epic and exhilarating film has people around the world raving about Fiddler on the Roof. The Chandler Weekly rates it 4 stars out of 5, with its cheap and older genre does very well to show pre revolution Russia. The movie follows a Jewish man named Tevye whose little town of Anatevka where the changes of the world are affecting their way of life. The riveting performance done by Topol (Tevye) blows peoples mind one after another, the musical genius of this play helps the performance of the whole cast. The reason it was rated 4 out of 5 was it didn’t hook me in as well I would have liked and not all the songs were the best. I had I expectations for this movie and it delivered.
The Call Sturgeon Journal rates the film 3.5 stars out of 5. This performance was stunning and un-repeatable! The life that Tevye, Golde and their five daughter lead is riveting and shocking! The angle that this movie shows the non revolutionised country has been such an influenced so many different places to be a better country.
The Haley Wasdal review rates the film 4 out of 5. I found this play not only highly entertaining, but also very humorous at parts. (Which i think always makes a performance better.) the acting was also very outstanding. It also tells about history of the 1960’s. I deducted a point because I sometimes found the acting to be “too-much.”
As Beth Fodor might say, “I rate this a three out of five.” Why one may ask? I didn’t find the plot very intriguing and found myself drooling at parts. However! I did enjoy the humor in the film, therefore I got my three marks from laughing.
The Chelsea Dawson review rates it a 3 out of 5. “The life that Topol (Tevye) is able to createin pre-revolutionary Russia is very believable and breathtaking. The problems in the movie are easy to understand and somewhat easy to relate too making the movie enjoyable for all.
The end result of this movie got it nominated for 8 Oscars and won 3 of them one for Best Cinematography, Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score and, Best Sound.