In class, we had an "organized" meeting to see what would happen or how our class would cope if we every survived a plane crash and survived, like Lord of the Flies. Block 4's get-together was anything but organized. Basically, our class sat on the ground and split up into 3 sections, not willingly. One section was working on how our democracy would work. The next section were four people who right off the bat wanted to be king/queen, making our government a complete monarchy. These four people were not right to be leaders of our class government. The third section was the largest section, and sat on the ground not being able to voice their opinion because the other two sections were in their own separate worlds. Being in the third section, I have to admit I didn't like a monarchy of people I didn't want to rule over us, and I also didn't like the first group's democracy because it was mirroring a monarchy because they people in that group were making all the decisions. I also didn't like how I couldn't say my opinion on what should be done which made me feel weak and not even thought about or considered. I heard a lot of good ideas from the third section though. One was that everyone split up and make their own city-states. Another was to divide up the jobs of the land evenly and we work it out like that. BUt, since no one would listen to each other, none of these ideas could be shared which ultimately made our class a complete anarchy.
If we would have gone longer than we did, our class would have gotten nowhere. Nobody was getting there ideas across; even the democracy group, who were VERY organized, couldn't figure out what was going on. The monarchy group just put themselves up at the front of the class and said they were the leaders, but even if I wanted them as the class' leader, they weren't even making rules or getting everyone organized. They just sat there and started making our "nation's" sport or other things that weren't significant at the moment. Even the monarchy group had great ideas, but if they were in charge, then why didn't they follow through? Our class wouldn't have done anything to make a good government. We were in complete chaos and there was no way we could have started a nation.
Reading Times:
11/5/12= Life of Pi; by Yann Martel; 10 min.; 9 pages
11/6/12= Life of Pi; by Yann Martel; 10 min.; 9 pages
11/6/12= Life of Pi; by Yann Martel; 19 min.; 18 pages
11/7/12= Life of Pi; by Yann Martel; 20 min.; 18 pages
11/9/12= Life of Pi; by Yann Martel; 32 min.; 30 pages
11/11/12= Lord of the Flies; by William Golding; 30 min.; 25 pages
Exactly what I was thinking! Establishing any kind of order on our island would have been impossible. No one listened to anyone else and it was just extreme chaos!
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