AP and IB English students strike a pose
Check out what the statues have to say. Statue day: when the English 12 IB seniors dress up as any character they choose to be and stand on Reino Road as well as in the quad posing as statues. This year, the English 12 AP classes joined the IB students on June 2 and 3.
The students created original poses, and made signs to explain the meaning of their statues. Students from other classes gathered around the statues to interpret them and their stories during third period and lunch.
Janet Conner, English department chair, brought this tradition to the school. She said, “several years ago, I read a story by Julio Cortazar that depicts three girls who play a game posing as statues. They don’t just pose for each other, but rather pose for the students and workers who travel by train,” she said.
“For our English 12 IB classes, we ask students to create an original statue with attitude,” Conner continued. “The assignment requires them to ‘be’ a story, all in one pose.”
Bridget Murphy, senior, was a wolf in shepherd’s clothing. She said, “I wanted to represent deception in leadership because the wolf himself is guiding the sheep into their downfall.”
Kenna Reed, senior, was part of a four person timeline that consisted of four different periods in history, each with the main criticisms of youth during that time. Reed’s time period was the 1920’s. She said, “We had frames, and around each frame were bad things that generation was called, like how [the 20’s] generation (was) called the Lost Generation and (that) they (would) never amount to anything. We aren’t particularly special, but the whole idea is that people have been ragging on (the youth of) each generation since forever, like us [Millennials] too.”
