Captian Jemmy Campbell; Harder to find than Waldo.

I’ve been researching for this character biography. It’s not going so well. As far as I know, he’s scottish, often drunk, follows Ross around like a loyal dog, and is aging. He thinks the convict play is funny as well, and wants Liz hanged. He may or may not be the contracter on the boat. I can’t tell if names were changed to protect the not-very-innocent. If he isn’t, he’s really hard to find anything about, which is interestingly enough frustrating as all get out. He’s a very minor character, so obviously history kind of didn’t care about him. Heck, I like him and all, but this is just too much. I don’t even know how old he was. I only knew he was “aging” from one line in one piece I got. I always figured him to be in his late 30′s, early 40′s before hand. I guess 40′s might be aging for the time period, but he was younger in my head. Anyway, I’m pretty ready to say to heck with it and just start running with what I think in my head. It’s worked before. May not be legit, or a good idea, but I’m sure I can connect it somehow. I’m not dropping what I have entirely. I just have to….work with it. Work it in. Do something with it. If the research forces that be refuse to give me a hand, I’ll just have to make it work on my own.

It was honestly much easier for me to find Waldo in those books then to find anything about Campbell.

I blame Waldo entirely. He thinks he’s so clever…..

“Our Counties’ Good”, and Spanish Plays~

For Our Countries Good, the characters that really interest me are Ketch, and Liz. They both seem like outcats of the group, and while Liz gets in little snips with everyone else, Ketch really jst seems like he wants to not be hated. He’s very nervous, and tries to be tough, but he even egts chased away by the girls. Liz also has that relationship with everyone else. She only seems to want to talk to Mary, and is very sure of herself. Inside, however, she has to be insecure. I want to see how her character moves along, and how I could play it. Also, getting into little fights is fun. I like that kind of stuff.

 

As for my IB essay, I’ve decided to research a play from the Spanish Golden Era, called ” Life is a dream”, and compare how the Spanish Era, which was steeped in religon, and came with Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, is difering from the Elizabethan Era in England, a very diffirent type of theatre. Mostly, this will focus on how the Spanish Era kept its’ basic ideals for so long, and why it focused on the good of humanity, while the english play I’ll be using, ‘King Lear”, is based in deciet, lies, and bad character. I’ll connect te goings on of Spain at the time to the plays. I need stronger basis I know, but I’ll work with this for now…I’m excited for this project.

Monday and Today…Improv Goodness.

So today was out Hunters/Gatherers Exersize, where two groups spilt off, and think of a story, which is then preformed to the other group, and they try to act out what happened as if the story traveled through ages and ages..

As the hunters, We had more…Free reign?

Either way, we end up finding a pack of pheasants, and a rouge one kills one of us.

Who we then eat.

Very pleasent story indeed.

Anyway, we were able to get through our story, and one round of the next era. The gatherers were pretty on, but we did a bit of a tangent with theirs. Marika told me what the Gatherers had, so afterwards I thought

“Well, we could have done that better. “

But it was fine really. I think it’s interesting how stories change through ages and people, but they keep that same basic setup of rising action, conflict 1, conflict 2, then the last climax.

And then the story ends with a never-you-mind. And a moral.

Even though the stories morph and change and end up nothing like what happened, they still have your story element.

As for Monday,  re-did Friday, with the Zip-Zap-Zop pattern game from confusion land

(Not a pattern if it only repeats once. Just saying.)

And with picking a topic, spouting out phrases, and then making an improv from what we had.

That, I liked. It showed how you can weave together things that seem totally non-related (Like, um, friends and biology) and make it a story. This also proves a point in the area of what a story is. It seems like it all has one big theme, but really, they’re all different ones made into something that made sense, in a round-about way. I defiantly think we should do that again.

I can’t believe wordpress lost my post. Only problem with this idea; The internet sucks sometimes. Anyway, I like the idea of and IB blog for drama. It makes it easier for me to write it all out, even if I want to start from the latest and work my way to the first enry. Not exactly a good example of  “organization”. Either way, I ‘ll have to add more friday, as I have to go out to learn for TOK tonight….

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