Midterm Reflection

Initially, our groups attempt at recreating the strike didn't exactly work out. We hadn't prepared enough and did not forecast external factors that eventually detracted from our performance. We ended up being pretty disappointed in ourselves--almost as if we had failed the original participants of the SFSU strike. Immediately after, we went back to the drawing boards to see if we could develop a better plan of attack.

After much deliberation on how we could improve our skit, our commitment to honoring the original SFSU strikers had been renewed. I was much more confident this time around. However, as soon as I walked into class that day, I knew that whatever plan we originally had would be improved even further by the energy shared by the rest of the class; especially those who were not even from our group. The walk towards the quad caused my skin to tighten and a swirl of thought circulated through my head. I felt an overwhelming sense of purpose, one that I had not felt the first time we enacted our skit.

As soon as our march ended and we assembled at Cesar Chavez, a burst of energy circulated through all of us and the performance that resulted could not have been any more successful! It was especially rewarding to see one of the alumni who participated in the strike congratulate us on our efforts. After that, I no longer worried about what grade we had earned for the midterm. Her gratitude and pride said it all!

- Ernest

Midterm Reflection

Many thanks to everyone in our group for their awesome contributions and effort. Our first concept of what to do for our skit seemed like a breeze at first. We thought that it would a really cool idea to try to reenact the strike from back then. But, then we tweaked it a little bit more and decided to make it into a question and answer panel. However, once it came to trying to execute the plan that was the challenging part. The first attempt that our group tried to do our skit, we missed the passing period and not many people were watching us. We also had a few problems on our side as well. We had some what a hard time trying to look serious, we kept smiling and laughing. Since we were just asking questions out at random, the whole skit turned out not as smooth as it could have been. It probably could have turned out better had we run a few more practice runs before the real deal. For our second attempt, it was so much better than the first attempt. With the support of the whole class and having had decided to change our whole skit so it would have a much better impact, things turned out way better than I expected. We got a lot more people to watch us and got to let people know what our goal was. I hope we made some sort of foot print in people's mind about the 40th anniversary of the strike. Overall I felt like I really was a part of something big and had a blast doing it.

Midterm Review/Reflection

To start off I have to say thanks for everyone that participated on our Midterm skit. First off making a group and discussing what we were going to do was pretty simple and easy. It was doing what we planned out that was difficult, like our first attempts to do the skit. We all met early and some later, but not only that but we missed the passing period so not many people watched. Then their was our self control, which we completely failed at because everyone was smiling or laughing, and some of our group mates were spatting out random questions. I have to say that we were completely disorganized,and I believe that we didn't have enough people to make a great impact towards other people. On our second attempt, the whole class participated and I have to say that our group was more prepared, and we did a great job. In my perspective I saw that we made a lot of people watch what we were doing, and made them understand what the 40th anniversary was about. All in all it was a fun experience and we learned alot from accomplishing our duties or failing to do so.