berzerkeley

for backround on the story, go to Susie's blog www.liveoutloudsz.blogspot.com

Our skit was based on the novel Sophies World. For the skit, there was the main character, Sophie, who would introduce each of the philosophers (who were the rest of the class), and the philosophers would present their philosophy in 30 seconds or less. The skit was supposed to go like this: Sophie would stand in the center of the stage with the philosophers in clusters behind her. She would introduce one and he/she would step forward and present their philosophy. One philosopher was left out though...Berkeley (who was my character). So each philosopher (except me) stepped forward, presented, and stepped back, and Sophie almost completed her conclusion when our teacher motion/mouthed that Sophie had left someone out!!! Sophie then realized that she had left Berkeley out and shouted, "Oh, wait!!! There's a bonus!!! Here is George Berkeley who lived from __ to ___. Now Berkeley, tell me about your philosophy." And I did and we stepped off of the stage. Now, back in my cluster, as I realized that I had been left out, I was quite excited. I do not like the pressure of speaking in front of a lot of people (sometimes its fun, but not this time so much). Sophie had completely finished her conclusion, but I also realized that our teacher was going to try to get me to do my part, so I was trying to hurry the ending and I was telling the guy in my cluster, "Hank, get off the stage right now!!! we gotta go!" He was a little confused, and before we could move off, I was standing in front of a lot of people giving them the Berkeley "We can not know any more of the world than we can percieve through our senses" speech. Anyway, I hope that all makes sense...PLEASE leave comments if you dont understand and I will try to clarify:)

Oh, and Sophie is a fantabulous friend, who did a PERFECT job playing the part of Sophie. She had all of the philosophers written on a small piece of paper in a notebook, and it was easy to lose track of anybody...it just happened to be me:) But she came up with an intro, conclusion, and most everything in between IMMEDIATLY before we went on stage. NOBODY could have done a better job ever!!!!!