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For most teens, summertime is a break from school, books and teachers' dirty looks. But not all students look forward to the time off. Youth Radio's Erin Bilir, who goes to high school in Denver, is a self-professed overachiever and says she likes it that way.
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OverachieverI think the piece is good. The only thing I could recomend is to make the intro a little more interestig as well as an outro. The narrator's voice is good and the fact that is Erin telling the story just makes it more real. |
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Good work.This is a nice short piece. Your delivery is especially good. Well done. -CM |
Intro and Outro
INTRO:For most teens, summertime is a break from school, books and teachers' dirty looks. But not all students look forward to the time off. Youth Radio's Erin Bilir, who goes to high school in Denver, is a self-professed overachiever and says she likes it that way.
OUTRO:Erin Bilir's story was produced by Youth Radio.
Sandra Chen
Posted on August 22, 2009 at 03:14 PM | Permalink
YEB review of Overachiever
It's always refreshing to hear a piece that isn't cluttered with sound effects and adjectives. Overachiever was simple, a monologue about the inner thoughts of an overachiever and what is at the end of this burning passion to work hard. Simple. A bit too simple. The piece definitely had the potential to be great. With other voices, Erin could have created complexity to the piece, showing the type of person she wasn't and why. Maybe interviewing her own parents and having them describe her overachieving tendencies. What kind of extraordinary person does she want to be? Why? Character development is so crucial in a piece of self-reflection. What I got out of this piece was the tip of Ernest Hemingway's iceberg. I know there's more to this piece somewhere.