Thematic Screencasts!!! 1/9/18

Today in class Mr. Rivers briefly went over how to do the project again. He explained how to set up your script meaning your introduction, conclusion, and how to integrate evidence. After he was done lecturing he allowed us to work on our projects. I struggled a lot with this project because I was absent for a week and I didn't know what you guys were learning. But I managed to figure it out with some help from the teachers and classmates. I struggled the most with making my themes because I wasn't here when you had that lesson but not only that I've always struggled with that. I also had a hard time revising my theme and how to make it more elaborate. But with the help from Mr. Rivers and Mrs. Carroll, I was able to figure out how to use words to make my theme more specific. For example, in one of my themes I said "A heartbreak tragically affects the way life plays out" but what I did to make it more specific was that I changed "heartbreak" into "decisions". By doing this it allowed me to have a more specific theme however it was still too vague. Since I was stuck I had asked Mr. Rivers for help and he told me for "the way life plays out" to change it to something more elaborate and say what changes tragically in a life. It had me thinking about the song I picked and it explains that the guy singing the song was cheated on making him having trust issues in the long run. My revised theme for my song ended up being "Decisions that are made in a relationship can tragically affect one's trust issues." Although, this theme is good I believe when I start finding evidence for my theme I can make it even more specific.

I believe that knowing how to write a good theme will help you in the long run because in college you will need to know how to do it. It is also important to know how to expand it using "who, what, where, how, why."