Tuesday 14th December

Today we had to hand in our homework; I choose to do my project about body image. I think this was an easy topic to do because it covers a lot of different subjects. Subjects like, anorexia, teenage surgery and bulimia. Once I had listened to everybody else’s presentations about their topic’s I think that mine was a sort of heading, to group different topics together. 

In my project I looked at the song stupid girls by pink, I think this song is very influential for teenage girls as it deplores the lack of good role models for girls while encouraging them to cultivate independence and individuality. I chose to look at this song because it is a serious matter made in to a fun/joking way. I learned a lot from doing my project and I think this helped me to understand both sides of the argument and to have a deeper understanding of the problems teenagers face. However as everyone in the class did different topics it was hard to be put in to groups, I am in a group with Bethany Kaye, Imogen Hay and Courtney Hackney. We are doing about Anorexia. This is the closest topic to my project and I am happy with my group. I feel that I already have an understanding about this subject but I think I will still have to look deeper in, to find out any interesting facts.

We all sat in our groups and discussed what we could do in our performance and how we could do it. Imogen had found a story on the internet which she had brought in to school as part of her project. The story is about a mother of two children that was anorexic as a child. She had hidden it from her children, until the day they found her graduation dress in the back of her wardrobe and the memories start flooding back. We all agreed this would be an excellent story to base our theatre in education on so as homework we each agreed on researching the story, getting our own copy and finding any more facts/figures about Anorexia.