Category: Social Studies

Title of Blog Post: Cycle of Poverty

 

Select 2 of the questions below to answer. Please answer in complete sentences, a minimum of 4 sentences per response. Copy and paste the question before you answer.

 

1. What factors can lead to poverty?

 

One factor that can lead to poverty is bad education then you can get a good job.

Another factor that can lead to Poverty is the neighborhood you live in, this might affect you being able to get out of the neighborhood and going to other neighborhoods that hold schools.

 

2. What circumstances can fuel long-term poverty?

 

One not having an education to learn. Another one would be not having enough money to get your child to school. You or your parents diagnosed with a bad sickness. And not having enough money to support your family.

 

3. How can poverty affect succeeding generations?

 

One way that property might succeed in Generations is that the government is not able to help all poor people . then the poor people have babies and then they can’t do able to support their child so they give it up and then there are more ]poor people.

 

4. Which members of our society suffer most?

people who live in hoods near or around Milwaukee. another place would be growing areas, because the prices of housing will cost more

Somebody: Esther Wanted: to talk to the king but she is afraid. So she tries anyway. Then the king listens  to her and says yes to her bidding.

Blog post – Assessment

As part of this classroom economy activity, you will complete a summary blog post.  This blog post will serve as a component of your assessment for this unit. Below are some of the prompts you will be responsible for answering during this assessment.

 

Schedule of Events:

Day 1: write a blog post, answering prompts completely and with detail; done on the document

 

Day 2: peer edit blog post of partner; done on document

 

Day 3: final revisions/edits; copy and paste to blog post

 

Day 4: expected to have parental unit comment on blog post

 

Basic information of the post:

Blog Post Title: Classroom Economy – Summary of Learning

Category: Social Studies

Directions: Copy and paste each prompt into your blog.  Answer each prompt to the best of your ability.

 

Blog post prompts:

 

1. As someone in this experience, tell your story.  Describe your experience. Tell us about the highs and the lows.  What were your major takeaways? What did you learn? How did you like it?  Be sure to explain your answers.

 

That pay I made 290.00 dollars a week, that was a good flow of money coming in for my job. My job was a picture taker, for people’s blog posts. Moving forward into the rest of the classroom economy I started losing a lot of my money because of taxes and fines. Then towards the last week of the classroom economy, I got evicted and fired from my job. 

 

1. How did your character’s role/situation in the game affect your ability to take care of yourself?  Think about your income, job, rent, the amount of money you had, any loans you took out, and your health situation.

 

I got one of the lower-paying jobs in the game so every day I have to worry about losing a lot of money towards taxes.  Which was 290.00 a week! From taking pictures.

 

1. What aspects of your character’s life encouraged success?  What aspects of your character’s life brought about failure?  Explain how that process worked.

 

I brought my life to a failure because  I didn’t pay taxes. Another thing I brought my life to a failure was that I lied on my P&L statement( which is where I put my money flow in)  so I got a lot of fines for that and I would put in jail for this crime. What encouraged my life was that I was able to get a good job( My job was taking pictures for classmates) at least to get some money, but I didn’t get much money for my job. My boss who hired me was Supreme Leader Kaufman.

 

1. What attempts did you make to improve your character’s life?  How successful were these attempts? How difficult were those attempts and why?

 

I tried to earn as much money as possible by taking a lot of pictures, so people would buy them from me.  I tried to do my job really well, which was a photographer. I also spent a lot of money on my house, college fund, and other things. I also tried to save my money.  I also applied for a new job, the Banker. That job would pay me a higher wage than my current job. I did not receive that job. Another candidate was better than me for the job.  They did better work than I did, which was why they were hired. It was not that difficult to apply for the job, but some of the questions were difficult, mainly because they had to do with being at MJDS for more than a year.  I thought these questions were a bit unfair because of that, I mean what am I suppose to do with these questions.

 

1. In bullet points, write a list of what you learned about poverty from this activity.  Be sure to include a brief description next to each item about what you learned, explaining your learning/thinking.

 

• One in every three Americans become poor
• Obama care is being torn down to create trump care because a lot of people that could work decided to get this insurance.  even though they didn’t need to. 
• Very hard to keep hold of a family and get a good education in the real world.
• And the more we go to school tomorrow higher-paying job to get city won’t be in the slums 

 

Today for the second race.

I put my first idea on the second idea to create this…..

so I can fire it the same way I did last time.

I really didn’t add much but a new paint job was needed though.

the speed was 1.31 seconds and 70 inches was the length of distance

what I might try next would be a racer that has a lot less stuff on it.

I really don’t have any questions to ask.

so the rubber band makes the car go by me pulling it back and pushing the car forward.

Reflection Prompts:
1. What do you like about your initial design?        It looked very pretty and realistic.
2. What has been challenging about the initial design?      we couldn’t get the spool to roll like we wanted to

3. How well did your racer perform in the first race? Did it go far? Fast?

it was the fastest and it went the farthest. I think my racer did very well in the race.

4. How will you modify your design for the second race? What variables do you feel will affect how far and fast the racer goes? Why?

I will need more time for this racer, unlike last time where I got a super small amount of time

5. What have been your strengths and challenges during the design process?

my strengths during this operation were team building.  I also need to work on taking other people’s ideas into consideration.

6. What questions do you have?

none