Egypt Project Reflections

I think that when we filmed our play we did good. It really helps that we can edit out every awkward moment and pause we had, and we can even add people's voices in if it was hard to hear. The only problem was that on the day we were filming and Thibault was missing, and then the next day Owen was missing. So either way, someone was cut out of the play. I feel that we all worked together pretty well, and whenever someone had a suggestion we tried to put it into the play. We didn't argue about jobs, and when someone was missing the day we chose them they didn't complain. I think that everyone contributed really well to the group, but I barely worked on the Pharoah project because I was too busy editing. The only thing I really did was find pictures and do research on the graphic organizer. Aneese did really well trying to find research, and Thibault decided to do the IBook. If I could have done anything differently I would have tried to record Thibault or Owen's voice's and put them over the video so that they could both be in it. I think in the end we all worked together really well and got a lot of things done. We all did our part very well and I am pretty sure that almost all of us worked on it outside of class.

Working In Groups

Whenever we work in groups, people are always assigned a job. Whenever we get to pick the jobs, I am always the editor. Being the editor is one of the most important jobs you can have. And if the editor doesn't do their job, people will end up reading the script and having no idea what it says. Even though most people don't want to be the editor, I like doing it. Honestly, I really don't care what job I get, but if I had to choose I would probably have chosen being the editor.

Whenever you are working with your friends, there can be many pros and cons. One of the pros is that you work together much better and are willing to listen to each other more. One of the cons is that it's also much easier to get side-tracked.

Whenever people are getting into a conflict, it really depends on what they are fighting about. For instance,  if two people are fighting about what color to make the props, I would just tell them that it really doesn't matter what color it is, because I don't think the teacher is going to bring our grade down because we used a color she didn't like. But if it was something more important than that, like a whole group fighting over a lead role, I would say that whoever is the  lead has one part, while everyone else gets two. In the end, it depends on what the conflict is about.

If someone was trying to take charge of our group and wasn't listening to my ideas, then I would probably just tell them to someone else, because if they didn't want to listen, there is still three other people in my group. Besides, we are all writing this together. When we made our story this time we just wrote down our ideas and tried to put all of them into the story.

I haven't really had many "difficult group situations", but I guess there was a time when we spent a lot of time picking our roles, and didn't have that much time to write our story.

Wednesday Wars Blog Post #1

If I were being threatened by my classmates to my buy enough cream puffs for the entire class, there would probably be a lot of options to do. First I probably would have told them that they can't exactly threaten me, because we are all in 6th grade. Then I would just leave. It's not exactly like I even had to stick around for an argument. The Pros of this is they would probably listen to me, but they still could plan some sort of prank on me. Besides, maybe things were different back then, but today no one from our school is going to follow me home and attack me or anything. But if I was in Holling's point of view and this happened, I would just tell them that if they even tried to do anything to me, I would just tell Mrs. Baker. One of the pros of this would be that I could finally find out if Mrs. Baker really does hate me. But if she really did hate me and she took the other kids side, that would probably be a REALLY big con.