Poetry Out Loud

I initially chose this poem because I thought the topic was really creative. I never would have thought about someone writing a poem about syrup, but know that I acually read it and think about the poem I have realized it is about racism. I don't really have a connection with this poem because I quess ive never been discriminated on besides being called a "usuall american." I belive this poem is really about how Aunt Jemima is always making the best of things all the time but she is not being recognized as doing it.
I feel pretty good about this poem when preparing for the class competition becuase it is a pretty short poem and the words are really well chosen so its also easy to memorize. I don't really expect myself to place in the top ten because ive never really done poetry before this year and I'm not all that great at reciting poems.

Poem

In the poem "The Road Not Taken" By Robert Frost I think that the true meaning is about what his life would have been like if he chose not to be a poet. I think this because in the poem, he said "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." I think he is talking about chosing a profession that not many other people choose and deciding on taking the that profession is what made all the difference.
I chose this poem to write about because it's meaning is pretty relavent to my life. I really want to be a professional photographer but that profession is definetly the road less taken compared to doctors and state workers and construction workers. I also chose this poem because I think it could be relavent to many other people who want to have a career that is slightly different.

Movie

The scene from the movie that standed out most to me was the seen were Atticus shot the dog with rabbies. During that scene, Calpurnia sees the dog and yells out and then brings Jem and Scout inside. Then she calls Atticus and tells him about the "mad dog" and then Atticus and Sheriff Tate arrive soon after. Then Sheriff Tate went to shoot the dog and then could not do it so he told Atticus that he would feel much safer with him doing it. Atticus then argued that he had not shot a gun in year but Sheriff Tate said that there was no time to play around. Atticus shot the dog and Jem was just bewildered that Atticus had done it.
I think that scene had the best acting because of how Atticus glasses were getting in the way and he just pushed them off to the ground and it looked just like something that anyone would do and didn't seem like it was script acting. Also after Atticus shot the dog, the camera went to Jem's face and he looked like he just beyond himself. When I read this scene from the book, I got a mental image that was very close to this. But I didn't think that Jem's face was like that at all. I think that the lighting in that scene was the best because everything was very detailed. The costumes and the houses were all very clear.