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My blog avatar picture.

I learned that border collies are very cute and fluffy.

I learned a lot of things about Jacob like he likes pancakes and animals.

I learned that they are very good at making avitars.

What forms does civic participation come in?  There are many types of civic participation. For example individual volunteerism, community engagement efforts, organizational involvement and government work such as electoral participation.

Why does civic engagement matter? Civic engagement matters because you are helping the community.

1. What is a raised garden bed? A raised garden bed is a type of garden in which the soil is raised above the ground and is usually enclosed by a frame made of wood.

2. Why should we build a raised garden bed at our school? We should build one  because it’s a great way to create a garden that’s cheaper and more efficient.

3. What should we not build a raised garden bed at our school? We shouldn’t build a raised garden bed because we want to challenge our self’s and there are more challenging gardens that are more fun to make.

Raised Garden Bed

My avitar is me because I made it look like me and it represents me. I chose to make my avatar the way is is because it looks and represents me. My avatar would have a power to turn things into jelly because then you could play with you jello water if you turn is into jelly.

1. Explain what the four factors of poverty are and how they impact one’s life.

Education because some people in poverty can’t afford basic education or they live in a area where there isn’t good education.

Housing because some people can’t afford housing.

Food because if you don’t have money you can’t buy food and then you can die because you don’t have food.

Family because if you family doesn’t have money for education you can’t go to school and if you don’t have good education in your family history it’s possible people could get a bad education.

2. Explain how the cycle of poverty works.

no money for food,bad health conditions–lack of education–lack of opportunity–low income.

3. How do we help people get healthy food cheaply (make sure your answer is realistic)?

We can make other things cheaper for example (education, and living in houses/housing) so people have ore money for food. We wan send letters to the government and write down ideas to make things cheaper.

What government policy suggestions do you have?

Make things cheaper so there’s less people in poverty.

1. What is SNAPS? SNAPS is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program a federal nutrition assistance program.

2. What is the average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS? The average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS is $126.00

3. On average, I spend _________on food per week. On average I spend about $568.20 per month.

4. My life would be different if I were on SNAPS because. The monthly benefit on snap is $126.00 and I spend more in a month then that on average.

1. What factors can lead to poverty? A factor that can lead to poverty is education. Because some people cant get education. Then you can’t get a job because you don’t have education/smarts to work a good paying job. Then you don’t have money so your in poverty.

2. What circumstances can fuel long-term poverty?  

3. How can poverty affect succeeding generations? Poverty affects succeeding generations. Because if you grow up in poverty you don’t live in a good neighborhood. Then there’s no good schools to go to so you can’t get a job. Because you don’t have a good education and then your in poverty when you grow up.

4. Which members of our society suffer most? 

• 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

1. How did you feel when you realized there was such an unequal pay amount between workers and bosses? I felt like it was unfair because workers work really hard and workers spend there time to work for a job and work for people. But I also think that it’s fair because bosses work hard running a business.

2. Why does unequal pay between workers and bosses happen? Because bosses work usually work a little harder depending on the job because they have to run a business.

3. What is a realistic solution to prevent such unequal pay from happening in the future?W Maybe making sure that is people get a higher pay then they are working hard because you could have a good job with good pay but you don’t do anything.

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 think rent and taxes because I didn’t know how to do rent and taxes also I didn’t know how expensive it was so it was very interesting learning about different rents and taxes.

1. Explain the role/job you have been assigned for our Classroom Economy. My job is to do 2 blog post a week about what’s going on in the class and assign 2 people a blog post a week.

2. What are you most excited/nervous about for our Classroom Economy? I’m excited to see how this effects the class and to see how we each do our jobs.

3. In my mind, poverty is caused by jobs, money, and families.