a. What was the homework assignment for Social Studies?

to make a six questioned blog post about how to close the hunger gap.
b. When was the homework assigned and when was it due?

it was assigned on Friday and due Wednesday.
c. Reasoning why you did not complete your homework?

my internet was not working correctly on my Chromebook at home. I tried it every day, but still nothing. it would work at school though. I really should have done it at school but instead, I procrastinated. which was my big mistake. I’m sorry.
d. What steps you will take to make sure you are not forgetting your homework in the future?

FOR YOUR SAKE FUTURE MAL, DO YOUR WORK!!!! STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!! AT ANY TIME YOU HAVE, DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!! but I really should stop procrastinating and do my work at school if there are technical difficulties.

1. What is SNAPS?
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. it provides food stamps for people who cannot afford food. 
2. What is the average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS?
$126 per month which is $1.40 per person per meal
3. On average, I spend $200 on food per week.
4. My life would be different if I were on SNAPS because…

my meals would probably be a lot cheaper. but, since on average I spend 200$ per week and only have a budget of  1.40$ per meal, it may be a little harder to buy food.

1. What factors can lead to poverty?

lack of money, lack of income, bad job, bad neighborhood, lack of appliances, lack of resources, I could go on but I don’t want this to be too long.
2. What circumstances can fuel long-term poverty?

lack of money, lack of medication, lack of income, bad job, bad neighborhood.

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.

When I was told that I was a judge, I got really nervous. Not only was I gonna have to sort out fights, but I also had to handle most of the fines. I got really nervous about this because I was afraid I was going to make people upset when I have to fine them. but it wasn’t as bad as I thought. sure, there was sometimes I did have to fine people but at least most of the fines were cheap and easy to pay. this made it a lot easier for me to not get stressed while handing people fines. also, most days were pretty chill. not many people were fined. plus, I loved that I was able to donate money. I’d have to say one major take away was that I loved all of the fun things we got to do like write our own checks or actually do little jobs. One thing I learned was how to write my name in cursive because before this experience I did not know how to write cursive at all. 

2. 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.

It was pretty easy to pay rent and take care of myself. I would get paid $1,500 a week because I was the second-highest role in the classroom, the judge. So I would pay off rent easily and still have plenty of money for myself. My health was pretty good too because of my income.

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

The success as a judge was that I earned a lot of money which made my life a whole lot easier because it was easy to pay rent. The failure of being a judge was that I had to sort out fights and also to handle most of the fines. This was not easy for me because I was a little too nice about the fines.  

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

At the start of my job, I was being a little too nice and removing everyone’s fines. so I tried to be a little meaner and give people their fines. This was not easy for me to do because I was really stressed that I was going to make people upset when I fined them.  But in the end, it worked out great because the fines were really cheap so it wasn’t that bad to hand them out.

5. 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.

Housing:

• Rent
  • Paying rent on chairs and tables
• Evictions
  • People evicted from the seat
  • Read parts of book Evicted
  • Photo analysis of Eviction
• Utilities
  • Cost of
  • How to understand electrical and gas meters

Health care:

• Different ailments
  • Type II Diabetes and Hypertension
• The cost of medication
• How to get medication paid for if living in poverty/old
  • Medicare vs. Medicaid

Employment: 

• Jobs
  • Completing a task
  • Getting paid
  • Getting a raise
    • CEO pay vs. normal employee pay
  • Applying for new job
  • Interviewing for new job
• Firings
  • People fired from job
• Education
  • Taking a GED test to earn academic credit

Finances:

• Taxes 
• Balancing your budget
  • P&L statement
• Checks
  • Writing checks
  • Cashing checks with direct deposit
• Fines
  • Breaking rules
  • Failure to complete tasks correctly
  • Committing financial fraud
  • Identity theft
• Minimum wage
  • Should teens get paid more article

Connections to Israel

• Poverty board game with Khen

1. How did you feel when you realized there was such an unequal pay amount between workers and bosses?
I did not even realize that there was a mistake with the money. Maybe it was because I was not here on Wednesday. but when I was told that there was an unequal pay I felt happy for the people who got more money.
2. Why does unequal pay between workers and bosses happen?
I think that unequal pays happen because maybe because they forgot about how important the job really was like Kaufman did.
3. What is a realistic solution to prevent such unequal pay from happening in the future?
make sure you do a little more research on each job to see how important that job really is.
4. What is one topic that has interested you thus far and why is it interesting to you (ex: evictions, utility meters, unequal pay, taxes, rent).

I would say all of the above because before we learned about all of this I knew nothing about this stuff. s I’m glad that I’m learning so much so I won’t have trouble when I’m an adult.

a. How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in? (1 sentence) I participated in every single one except the first one because I was not there for that day.
b. How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers, or other visitors? (1 sentence) I only got comments from my mom and from my teacher, Adon Kaufman.
c. Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why? (3 sentences) I really enjoyed writing and drawing the student blogging challenge four. I enjoyed making  this blog because it was fun creating my own little escape room with just a piece of paper. I also enjoyed how nobody
d. Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog? (1 sentence) I made a drawing and took a picture of it then uploaded it to my blog.

What did you learn about yourself during this challenge? (3 sentences) I did not know that you could make your own escape room. it was a lot of fun trying to make my own. maybe I’ll make one in the future that is harder.

One thing I loved doing every year for Hanukkah was making my whole family two or more gifts for each person. it would always be really tiring because I have such a big family. But it was always worth it in the end, to see my family’s gratitude when I gave each of them my gifts. They would really enjoy it, putting it up on their dressers, forgetting about it and putting it in a drawer, and then find it two years later and be like, “oh yeah, I forgot I had that!”  Then they would show it to me, and I would always think: “dang, my art skills sucked back then.” Now I don’t do it as much because I’m really lazy now.