Little Sister Dream House

Little Sister Dream House - Teamwork Task

Reflection

This was one of the hardest tasks I had ever done in Drama! I will tell you why.

So at the beginning of the lesson, Ms Ruiz got into her character, which personally I find so annoying but funny at the same time. She picked 5 people to be team captains, these people then had to pick students to be in their team. I got picked by Yassin, and in my team there is Tereza, Maya and Maria, including Yassin.

The task Ms Ruiz's character gave us was to design our own Little Sister Dream House - staying in character throughout the whole process! This was extremely hard because a lot of our characters had very different personalities and didn't agree with each other. It was really hard to stay in character because as soon as I wanted to talk or give my opinion, I would start acting and talking like me instead of acting and talking like my character Holly. Also I one of the people who in a lot of teamwork tasks or group work, takes the responsibility to be the leader and take control of things. However, my character Holly isn't like that because she has problems with commitment and so got bored really quickly but it also quirky, so she likes to make jokes and has a weird sense of humor.

Another thing that I found difficult was making decisions based on our characters. For example, Maria whos character's name is Samantha, likes to skateboard and is a tomboy. So we had to make the design our house based on the likes and dislikes of each character, even though we sometimes didn't like it ourselves. It was hard making decisions altogether because some of us wanted colourful walls and massive garden facing the beach, others wanted a simple white theme and a nice pool. So there was a lot of arguing that took place and not a lot of work. We didn't really control out time properly, and as a result didn't have a lot of time to draw it in class. So what we did to solve that problem was we planned the whole house on paper and quick notes, then Maya and I took it home (She came to my house) and we finished drawing the diagram of our Little Sister dream house.