1. What role did you take in your society at the beginning of this process? What "motivated" you to involve yourself in that way?
In the beginning, in fifth period society, I offered a few questions and opinions here and there but for the most part I didn't talk much except to the person sitting next to me who would occasionally say what I had mentioned to her or cleared up any confusion I had. I felt like I didn't talk much because I was shy, this really gets in the way of expressing myself but I am working on it. I felt I needed to give my opinion in order to get what I wanted out of the society, or rather change it. I thought the idea we had, that being education, was a good idea to build a society around but proved to have many difficulties. I figured Education would be an easy topic because everyone is constantly learning something, whether it be something in class intentional or something accidental like how to talk to another person or how to word something without offending them. I realized that finding a way to measure a goal would be difficult, unless we had thought about doing an "ah-ha moment" worksheet everyday or every Friday... that would have worked if we had made our goal to be that "someone learns something of use every day". That would be a pretty wimpy goal though.
In the beginning of the new society I joined, fourth period society because of schedule changes, I did not say much at all. At first, I was shy and didn't know many of the people. I also did not really understood how their society worked and what they were focusing on. Frankly, I'm still not sure what they are attempting to do. At first their society was based off of education also, but they changed it to communication. Which is a good idea for a society, but not the best for this society since they have problems communicating to one another without getting upset or putting someone else "down". I knew the first day I was in their society that I wanted to go back to fifth period society, from what I could tell there was a group of people who made all the decisions and the others would occasionally complain about the decisions and try putting in their own input. I feel like no one wanted to put their own opinions out there, because when they went to say they didn't agree (granted it was after they asked multiple times whether or not someone disagreed) one of the people on the inside would snap at them and basically be rude. It was unpleasant. They didn't have a website for their actual society, but had a few apparently for a rebellion. One of the first things said to me was: do you want to join the rebellion? Here is our page. I feel like Communication was a reasonable choice for them, they would be forced to work on it but even still they didn't work very well or together on it. It seemed like in order to communicate they should have gotten everyone together, like pushing the desks aside to create room where everyone could seat and see each other and be able to communicate better. By allowing them to stay in there own seats they would feel like it was okay to talk to their friends around them rather than listening.
2. By the end of the process, what role did you have? What changed, if anything? If your actions or involvement did not change, why not?
By the end of the process I had the same role, providing opinions when I felt it was needed and questions to the person sitting beside me to clear up any confusion. Although I did want to become more involved in the society, but the only thing I really thought I could do would be the scribe, but I didn't figure anyone would vote for me. All other positions were practically filled before they were even offered, mostly because those people just stepped up and did them and since they did that it was felt that they were the right choice.
In the fourth period I didn't talk much. Usually it was to ask a few questions... unless we were broken off to groups, then I would give my opinions. We didn't have as many society days after we had switched classes . I didn't have much of a role in this society , only talking when we split in to groups and attempting to help although I never quite understood their goals for the society. It didn't look like the society itself had made any roles in order to involve everyone and make it more orderly.
3. What evidence do you have for your involvement? How does this truly demonstrate your understanding of citizenship and your society's goal?
I don't really have an evidence of what my involvement was, besides maybe knowing what the goal was for our class period but that wouldn't be entirely true since I only understood the goal in the fifth period society, if that.
4. What type of citizen will you be as you grow up, gain more knowledge? Why?
I will be as involved as I can be with giving my own opinions and questioning what needs to be questioned and making sure I have an opinion on everything. One of the downfalls for myself during this society, was that I didn't have an opinion on everything that they were trying to solve. As I gain more knowledge I'll be able to create better opinions and vote better or help make better choices to improve our society.
In the beginning, in fifth period society, I offered a few questions and opinions here and there but for the most part I didn't talk much except to the person sitting next to me who would occasionally say what I had mentioned to her or cleared up any confusion I had. I felt like I didn't talk much because I was shy, this really gets in the way of expressing myself but I am working on it. I felt I needed to give my opinion in order to get what I wanted out of the society, or rather change it. I thought the idea we had, that being education, was a good idea to build a society around but proved to have many difficulties. I figured Education would be an easy topic because everyone is constantly learning something, whether it be something in class intentional or something accidental like how to talk to another person or how to word something without offending them. I realized that finding a way to measure a goal would be difficult, unless we had thought about doing an "ah-ha moment" worksheet everyday or every Friday... that would have worked if we had made our goal to be that "someone learns something of use every day". That would be a pretty wimpy goal though.
In the beginning of the new society I joined, fourth period society because of schedule changes, I did not say much at all. At first, I was shy and didn't know many of the people. I also did not really understood how their society worked and what they were focusing on. Frankly, I'm still not sure what they are attempting to do. At first their society was based off of education also, but they changed it to communication. Which is a good idea for a society, but not the best for this society since they have problems communicating to one another without getting upset or putting someone else "down". I knew the first day I was in their society that I wanted to go back to fifth period society, from what I could tell there was a group of people who made all the decisions and the others would occasionally complain about the decisions and try putting in their own input. I feel like no one wanted to put their own opinions out there, because when they went to say they didn't agree (granted it was after they asked multiple times whether or not someone disagreed) one of the people on the inside would snap at them and basically be rude. It was unpleasant. They didn't have a website for their actual society, but had a few apparently for a rebellion. One of the first things said to me was: do you want to join the rebellion? Here is our page. I feel like Communication was a reasonable choice for them, they would be forced to work on it but even still they didn't work very well or together on it. It seemed like in order to communicate they should have gotten everyone together, like pushing the desks aside to create room where everyone could seat and see each other and be able to communicate better. By allowing them to stay in there own seats they would feel like it was okay to talk to their friends around them rather than listening.
2. By the end of the process, what role did you have? What changed, if anything? If your actions or involvement did not change, why not?
By the end of the process I had the same role, providing opinions when I felt it was needed and questions to the person sitting beside me to clear up any confusion. Although I did want to become more involved in the society, but the only thing I really thought I could do would be the scribe, but I didn't figure anyone would vote for me. All other positions were practically filled before they were even offered, mostly because those people just stepped up and did them and since they did that it was felt that they were the right choice.
In the fourth period I didn't talk much. Usually it was to ask a few questions... unless we were broken off to groups, then I would give my opinions. We didn't have as many society days after we had switched classes . I didn't have much of a role in this society , only talking when we split in to groups and attempting to help although I never quite understood their goals for the society. It didn't look like the society itself had made any roles in order to involve everyone and make it more orderly.
3. What evidence do you have for your involvement? How does this truly demonstrate your understanding of citizenship and your society's goal?
I don't really have an evidence of what my involvement was, besides maybe knowing what the goal was for our class period but that wouldn't be entirely true since I only understood the goal in the fifth period society, if that.
4. What type of citizen will you be as you grow up, gain more knowledge? Why?
I will be as involved as I can be with giving my own opinions and questioning what needs to be questioned and making sure I have an opinion on everything. One of the downfalls for myself during this society, was that I didn't have an opinion on everything that they were trying to solve. As I gain more knowledge I'll be able to create better opinions and vote better or help make better choices to improve our society.