Taming of the Shrew - sonnet

In my Drama course, we have been reading The Taming of the Shrew and for our action project we were assigned to write a sonnet addressing a character in the Taming of the Shrew. The purpose of this action project was to make a commentary on gender roles by addressing one of the characters in the play, The Taming of the Shrew. I enjoyed writing this sonnet.

Below is my sonnet and a video of me performing the sonnet

How shall I see thee from the modern day?

Do you have some relevance to me?

Your change of heart, did you really feel that way?

You were mewed so easily

I can’t imagine behaving as you did,

Your final monologue just made me mad:

“Wives should do as their husbands bid,”

In our time these bondmaids are simply sad.

When we talk about Petruchio’s Kate,

We can take a lesson for our lives.

To not be doomed to Katherine’s fate

And be partners, not merely wives.

When to Shakespeare’s plays we turn,

Let it be literature, not life, we learn.

Lets learn from our story

In the Drama course, we have been reading “The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. For the first Action Project we were challenged to write a sonnet addressing one of the characters in “The Taming of the Shrew”. The sonnets we wrote also had to make a commentary on gender roles during Shakespeare's time and our reaction to how one character dealt with their own gender role. I enjoyed working on this action project.

Please find my sonnet and my performance of it below:

How shall I see thee from the modern day?

Do you have some relevance to me?

Your change of heart, did you really feel that way?

You were mewed so easily

I can’t imagine behaving as you did,

Your final monologue just made me mad:

“Wives should do as their husbands bid,”

In our time these bondmaids are simply sad.

When we talk about Petruchio’s Kate,

We can take a lesson for our lives.

To not be doomed to Katherine’s fate

And be partners, not merely wives.

When to Shakespeare’s plays we turn,

Let it be literature, not life, we learn.

Mastectomy

In my Cure course, we were assigned to select a type of surgery to investigate. We identified the variable tackled by this surgery, identified the affect of this on the organs, tissues, and body etc. We also had to visually recreate this surgery, explain the process of healing and research type standard post-surgery treatment. The purpose of this action project was to map chosen surgery and identifying organs, tissues, and systems affected by the procedure.

Below is my presentation about A Mastectomy (Breast cancer):