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Aim: How do we view ourselves in relation to our society? i.e., How we view civilization?
Slide 1:
Do Now: THINK/PAIR/SHARE
Define the term “Civilization”.
Johnathan: an organized society where people are specialized and have their own different roles, blacksmith, armor smith, different people and jobs
Joey: law and order
Civilization: (N) A human society having an advanced stage of development in the arts, and sciences, and social, political, and cultural complexity.
Slide 2:
Team Activity:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Duo71cmGwz4Jll1kS74RHRtNn-k0H6Pj/edit
Directions: Have a member from your team read the simulation aloud for clarity, while
the others follow along. Answer the following questions (as a group) based on this
simulation.
Group Discussion:
1. List the things in your present life that you will miss the most. Why?
Jason said that he will be missing his computer the most. This is because he said he has no life and spends the whole day on his computer. He said that he will miss playing video games, especially TitanFall. He also said that he would miss his connection to society. Chris said that he would miss his bed the most because he loves to sleep comfortably and not do anything. I said I would miss eating meat since I cannot spend the rest of my life eating fruits.
2. Try to decide whether the possession(s) of some of these things would mark you as a civilized person. Explain.
Jason said that possessions do not mark a civilized person because being civilized comes from the person itself not the item. This means that the item and person are independent of one another. However, David disagreed with this and said that items influence a person’s behavior, therefore influencing whether they are civilized or not. For example, not having a phone may mean someone isn’t good at socializing online.
3. What are some of the long-range plans that you would have to implement to create
a new life for yourself and the others on the island? Why?
Jason said that one long term plan that we can have is to farm the seeds from the fruit. When we have the seeds from the fruit, we can grow the fruit and essentially have an infinite food source. Haoran said that we can build a house so that we can have a place to shelter in. This would overall just make life easier, having two of the most important things necessary for life.
4. How would your group handle the inevitable personality clashes that would occur?
I said that if we are unable to live with each other’s personalities that as long as it’s not that serious, nothing will be done about it. However, if things were to get really bad, depending on the scenario, that person would either be killed or exiled away from the group. David said that he they should try to stay mature and that if you are to be exiled, you have a little to no chance of surviving
5. What would be the biggest problem(s) you would face? Why?
Chris said that our biggest problem we would face is having drinkable water. Although we are on an island surrounded by water, that water is salt water. The human body cannot properly consume a liquid with a concentration of high saline, so it would be hard to find drinking water. The best method for this is trying to remember out freshman chemistry lessons, or drink rain water. Even then, rain water would be hard to contain without proper conditions.
6. How would you make decisions?
I said that we could make decisions via democracy. It is hard for one person to make a decision that is good for everyone there, so it would most likely be best for everyone to vote on a decision they like. This way, people are more likely to have a decision that benefits the majority of the group.
7. How would you determine rules/laws? And what would be your process when rules/laws are broken?
Jason said that the way rules and laws are made are meant to be beneficial to everyone. This means that people will not be affected negatively by these rules. The consequences for breaking rules will depend on the severity of the law break, and the number of offenses. If a major law is to be broken, it is likely that the person will either be exiled or killed. Smaller offenses will result in temporary isolation.
8. Can you think of anything historical that would dictate/determine the order in which things should occur?
Haoran said that history can be used as a form of evidence to enforce rules and laws. Since laws in the past seem to hold up pretty well according to today’s standards, it is safe to assume that it will most likely work too in this situation. The evidence that stands is society being able to maintain itself for many centuries, and will continue to work, especially amongst a few people.
After around 25 minutes of discussing amongst ourselves in our groups, we decided to share our answers as a class:
1. Emily: Our phones the internet, technology, good food, bed, pets
Elliot: the lack of food variety, only eating fruits, not purified water
Johnathan: my family
Mo: privacy
2. Gabe: I think that they do mark us as civilized, they are products of 100 or more years of development, since we don’t have that, we get reset.
3. Johnathan: some kind of camp, tent, base, somewhere to sleep .
Eric: some sort of fire, something to signal for help and rescue.
Gabe: some way to get drinkable water.
4. Eric: throw the people who don’t like each other to different sides of the island, segregate.
Rachel: have a leader to keep us all in check.
5. Elliot: Lack of basic survival skills, inexperience.
Reflection:
In today’s lesson, we first discussed what it meant to be a civilization. We were then challenged by the questions on the second slide. These questions asked how we could make and enforce these laws and penalties for breaking them. The reason we had answered them the way we did was due to our inexperience with this topic. We only know so little of what society would be like unorganized that we couldn’t get very descriptive on this subject. For the most part we unanimously agreed that we should penalize one who does not behave the way they’re supposed to for our own safety. Although I would not know how to specifically go through the process of enforcing penalties/laws I know the basic laws that should be used in order to protect the other people living in the society. Civilization is a complex concept, and I am glad that I did not have to deal with forming the foundations of it. This lesson really had my group and I thinking about what specifically made up a society and I am glad to have learned a bit more about the difficulties of a civilization.
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