Exhibition Night

Exhibition was not as nerve wracking in the end probably because which each question asked I was prepared. Plus parents don't always ask questions about the calculations, or history, just more of the process and what the main points were.In Humanities it was more difficult to talk to parents since were the first table, everyone would walk in, find their kid, then rarely come back to the front again. Although the parents we did encounter the presentation went pretty well. A lot of them seemed impressed with the history content, as well as the fact that we chose it ourselves. Then when I would explain more in detail, I'd sort of lose their interest or they wouldn't understand it, but just be in awe. It was about the same thing for math/physics everyone was just impressed with the project itself and not necessarily the work and calculations. This was also because they wouldn't ask a lot content driven questions, so it was hard to bring it up while keeping their interest. For both classes that was my biggest weakness trying to teach my interest which was the heavy content but keeping it comprehendible. My favorite thing part was explaining the dark room, whenever someone stood reading the explanations I'd go explain it myself. It was fun because, I knew what I was talking about and also the person I was teaching generally had an interest it, since they stood there by will. As I said before not a lot of the parents asked content driven questions so the only thing that made an interaction difficult was if the parent was intimidating, not too polite, or just seemed like they weren't interested. Next time though I really want to have an extravagant display to engage and interest people.

Character Building

A character building improve session helped confirm what we've been told about complex characters and how they help improve and, make the story. Physically acting out our character helped us understand the dimensions of our characters as an actual person, with feelings and motives. This helped us realize that our character development cannot just be impulsive but it needs the characters to have motives and reasons why behind it.
If it's any character that needs the most development it is Jude he is a fairly main character and needs more depth behind him. The only background on him is that he comes from Yorkshire, a big family, and not much wealth. His personality is very suave, out-going, and caring, yet there is no explanation, no motives, other than him being the oldest. Something to add to him is that since he is the oldest that made him very helpful.
Charles is very well understood because of his traumatizing childhood with the death of his mother, and absurd father. His low-self esteem and great intelligence will be explained through out the story since he is telling the story.
Nigel the Father of Charles was a veteran and lost his leg, him wanting Charles to be a man is also pretty well established. His lack of emotional coping is pretty well established with the death of his wife.
Lesley is very happy go lucky, but very serious when it comes to her work, because of her brothers death in World War II. Her character is very basic but will be well projected.