Role Play Interview

Nate Fuller

Writing Role

Me: Did the group work well together?

Tim: I feel that the group helped to contribute to the project. Everybody had a sense of what they were responsible for when coming up with the role play. I think that the group was almost always in communication with each other and had a good idea of what was going on in the group.

Mckenzie: I thought we worked well together—each person contributed ideas and had something to bring to the role play.

Emily: I thought the group worked very well tighter. Everybody contributed well and had good ideas. Communication was good between group members and everybody really did their share.

Stephanie: I feel like we all worked pretty well together. Everyone did their fair share of work and came to the numerous group meetings we had. We all offered up suggestions for the tasks at hand, and we had a pretty good time doing it.

Me:Did the role play process help you get more into the context of the Victorian Era? If so, explain.

Tim: I believe that the role play did help with the context of the Victorian Era for several reasons. The first is to explain the issues that people who traveled had to deal with when they were traveling abroad. In working with the group it helped to better understand the size of the Victorian Empire and the places that were traveled to most often.

Mckenzie: The role play process didn’t really help me get more into the context of the Victorian Era, but I learned a lot from the research and felt that I got a better understanding of the time period.

Emily: It did help me get more out of it. I got a chance to put myself in the places we were studying and figure out why characters behaved a certain way. It showed me how decorum pretty much ruled actions and reactions.

Stephanie: It definitely helped. Each one of us brought interesting articles and sources to the table to help understand and bring alive multiple aspects about money and travel from the Victorian Era.

Me:What do you think we could have done better, and what do you think we did well?

Tim: I think that we could have done some things better than others. The main thing that I feel that we could have done better was the incorporation of the audience into the role play. If we would have been able to come up with a scene in which we would have been able to give most of the class a speaking part would have been better. I feel like the way that we tried to portray the characters was done rather well with the props that we included in the role play. I feel like the information that we provided to the class on travel and money before the presentation helped them to understand the situation better.

Mckenzie: As a group, I think we did a really good job trying to piece together our various ideas and incorporating the context from Bleak House with the context we found in All the Year Round and Household Words.  I thought we had a good amount of props and visuals for our presentation, and (even though it was last minute) I liked our incorporation of our audience—it was funny)! Something we could have worked on—I think we struggled to stay on task while working together and I felt that we could have been more organized and communicative about our meeting times and places.  Other than those few things, I thought our group had a lot of fun putting this together.

Emily: I think we could have done better at actually running the role play. I do think our dialogue was good and fit the time. I feel like we stuck to the characters features while changing their outcomes and setting.

Stephanie: I think we could have been a little more effective with our time at group meetings, but that’s only a minor complaint as it was pretty easy to work with everyone. I feel like this actually worked like a group project should have just in that we actually met, did work together, and helped further each other’s understanding of the material we were trying to present.