- As someone in this experience, tell your story. Describe your experience. Tell us about the highs and the lows. What were your major take-aways? What did you learn? How did you like it? Be sure to explain your answers. My job in this activity was a blog poster, which meant I had to write blog posts every week about what we were doing in class. I also had to assign blog posts to classmates. I got paid money for doing my job, but I also got a bonus if people did their job (but if I did not let my teacher know I deserved my raise, I would not get it). The game itself was fine because I really did not like my job; it was annoying to do my blog posts (but it was fun assigning other people work). The highs of the game was that I learned how to do taxes, how to pay bills, and how to write a check.
- My major take away was that now I know how to write a check. I also know more about how people get paid by the government for medication (if they cannot afford it). The government will help people who cannot afford to be healthy sometimes.
- The worst part of this activity was my teacher ended this activity. I also did not like how some people were making a joke out of this activity, mainly because it was fun and I learned a lot.
- 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 hard because the whole time I was in debt. I was in debt because I had to pay my weekly expenses, which was about half the amount of money I got. Rent, student loans, taxes, and utilities took a lot of my money. I did not have to pay many fines though. If i had a big expense, I probably would not be able to afford it.
- 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 was not successful because I didn’t get paid a lot and when I got paid I had to pay my rent and utilities and student loans and taxes so I only had a little bit of money left and I was in that $75. Even when applied for a second job I didn’t get it, so I was left with the little money I had. Every week we would have our jobs, and then we would get paid on wednesdays and we would also have to pay our rent, student loans, taxes, and utilities every week.
- What attempts did you make to improve your character’s life? How successful were these attempts? How difficult were those attempts and why? I applied for a second job, the job was to be someone’s assistant, you had to water and take care of plants everyday. I didn’t get the job though because there were two other people applying so they got the jo instead of me. I had really bad luck during this economy unit because I didn’t get paid a lot, I had a bad job, and I didn’t get a job I wanted.
- 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.
- CEO is the head of a company
- Rent we had to pay rent every week for our chair and table
- Eviction people get evicted sometimes in the world.
- Utilities we had to pay our utilities (light,electricity
- Health care you have to pay for health care
- Employment and firing you can get fired and you can get a job
- Finances different payments you have to pay
- Connections to israel
I like how you used lots of detail in all of your answers. I really agree about how you were annoyed that some people started making the Classroom Economy a joke. Maybe next time you don’t have to put so much space in between each answer.
If you have money left you are not in debt, you said you only had about $75 that doesn’t mean you are in debt. I like how you talked about how you learned how to write a check. I connect with applying to a second job because we applied to the same job. -Bree
What I liked: I liked how you put a lot of detail.
Connection: I can also agree that it was annoying that the game ended.
Improvement: You just need to make sure you check your grammar because some parts don’t make sense. There was also a lot of unessesary space in between questions which made it kind of hard to read.