Egypt Project Reflections

The in-class activities that helped us most with these projects were "Walking the Nile", all of the BBC games and videos, and just doing other research projects. I would like to learn more about the different pharaohs, and the kinds of tools and items Egyptians had. Our group was somewhat successful working together. Sometimes one person would goof off and play games, some of us would not do as much work as everyone else, (I'll get to that later) and sometimes we would just argue and shout at each other. However, despite our differences, we somehow managed to work together and create pretty good projects as far as I'm concerned. I felt like everyone did a fair share of work. Sometimes we would argue about how some of us weren't doing enough or how some of us were doing too much. The Pharaoh iBook (Which isn't finished yet) has all my work on it so far, but I trust my teammates and I think they will all do an equal part on this. If I got to redo the Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians project, I would make a better storyline and add better grammar. If I could redo the pharaoh iBook (still not finished) I would probably work quicker and spend more time researching. I think our Daily Life in Ancient Egypt project was successful because we worked really hard and we all did our part. I'm not so sure about our Pharaoh iBook, honestly I'm very worried about it.

Group Dynamics

I like to think of myself as the leader in my group. I usually have to claim leadership over all the chaos that goes on in our group. (Which there is a lot of.) I tell my teammates what needs to be done and do a lot of the work myself. I take this role so that we can get a good grade and work together. I like this role too. Sometimes it's hard working in my group, because my teammates don't use very good grammar. I will admit I am a bit of a control freak. I like working with my friends but sometimes it's difficult. The good part about it is you can have fun, but the bad part is sometimes they goof off and don't work. I resolve conflicts in the group by taking leadership and deciding decisions myself. It works pretty well, but one person gets mad when I do that. If I don't feel listened to I will have the group vote on whatever the problem is. The most difficult situations in groups is sometimes one person did something in a research or patterning document that was incorrect, and they wouldn't take it off, no matter how much persuading, until I asked the teacher. Then, after I told them it was wrong, they proceeded to complain in the document chat. The best group situation I've ever been in is when the entire group agrees with each other (this happens rarely) and there is no arguing at all.

If I was stuck in Holling's problem, I would solve it realistically and just say no. I would explain how I worked for the cream puff and tell them that maybe if they worked hard, they might get one too. They wouldn't expect you to buy the entire class cream puffs, thats so unrealistic. And, in the 0.01% chance that  that doesn't work, I would just tell my mom my predicament and have her lend me some money so I could buy some.

Another solution is just working hard. If you did extra chores, and did stuff that lets you earn money, you could probably rack up enough money to afford a box of those delicious cream puffs. And even if you couldn't earn that much money in time, (you probably could, but if you didn't), You could probably get someone like a parent to lend you some money.