Kiana Dehmand

9th Honors Lit

Jamison
11/15/15

The Night Circus Project: Editorial Review of Tent Reflection

The Night Circus project was the most difficult yet creative and exiting projects that I
have ever done in a language arts class. For this project we all put into group and it was among
us to decide which jobs we would be doing. There was an editorial/reveaur who did all the
important writing, a concessionaire to make delicious, unique food and recipes to them and they
also had to work with the designer who was in charge of everything dcor and visual related, and
there was the ring master that controlled us and delivered all the papers we have made as a
group, with additional work that they were required to do. Together, the directions were to make
our own version of a tent and presentation for an attraction that has been featured in the book,
The Night Circus. My group members were Bella, Erin, Lela, and Lucas for whom I got along
with really well and we decided together to make our presentation/project to be about the
Wishing Tree (In pages 165-6 and 289). I chose to be the editorial because I knew it would be the
most challenging and I personally wanted that and was okay with it because I knew it would help
a lot towards learning how to manage time better, take significant progress notes, and help with
my writing ability. The requirements for this job was to control NORM forms, write three
rhetorical analyses (which are not presented in the portfolio), and write a finale, 2 page, essay
reviewing my groups tent with the perspective of an outsider/reveaur. I really enjoyed writing

this essay because it was simply a really fun and creative thing to write, much different from the
normal essays I have written. I liked it so much better than the analyses papers yet I managed to
include important details of the wishing tree that I found from the books text. For example,
outside the black and white striped, pyramid-like tents (Page 7), and New wishes ignited by
old wishes. (Page 166). I also mentioned details like how the black branches of the tree were
twisty and long with candles on them which also meets with standard, ELAGSE9-10RL1 for
stating facts from the textual evidence. Overall, I really enjoyed writing this paper despite its
difficulty because it was so different from the normal kinds of essays I would usually like. It was
creative and free for a change yet it still required me to list evidence which helps more with the
ability to be successful, writing more papers like this.