Q.O.D. (Question of the day) answer

What is the relationship between gesture and thought? How do actors incorporate gestures into their performance. How conscious is the actor's hand? 

 Gestures help express thoughts as the performers speak. They accompany the speaker so that the audience would better understand what the performer is implying; it also brings emotion to speech. The actor's hand is half conscious, as part of the attention goes to their speech. 

SSR Blog Post+Academic Language

For your (classmates and teacher's) information, I wasn't able to read a nonfictional book, because I didn't bring it to class. Instead, I read one of my spare books, "Romeo and Juliet". I chose to read this book because our class recently studied various of poetry, and out of all I studied, Shakespeare's works had always appealed to me. Most of his works are confusing to the sound, and it assesses readers on their abilility to interpret a foreign way of writing. The author creatively combined many elements of poetry, such as illusion, simile, metaphors, and iambic pentameter in his worldly famous sonnets and of course, his most famous piece, "Romeo and Juliet". I believe the concept of this story is to understand that true love at first sight has it's own risks and decisions, while also understanding that we shouldn't be rebellious towards those with authority. 

I read through act 1 of the play. In the act, readers can automatically assume that the Montagues and the Capulets are two opposing sides. Romeo is lost with love, and his hopes of seeing true love vanished. He sits alone, pondering and depressed, while waiting one day that his hopes will be fulfilled. Mercutio, one of Romeo's joking brothers, analyzes Romeo's strange personality and jokes off his peculiar attitude. One day, the Montagues were invited to a party by the Capulets, to which Romeo disagreed because of a dream he encountered that implied that he shouldn't attend parties. Mercutio instructs Romeo that dreams are lies, and tells him merely to live his life to the fullest. 

During the party. Romeo encounters Juliet, to which he describes her as the most ideal girl he had ever met ("love at first sight"). Being the daring person he is, he admits to loving him,and they shared a kiss. Despite being enemies, Romeo discovers that he had truly fell in love with Juliet, and he eventually forgets about Rosaline, the girl he was rejected by.