Desert Island Artifact

About The Project

We were put into a situation where a group of people were isolated on an island wishing to survive. We were told to make laws and a charter in able to keep the group in accordance. Me and my partner developed ideas about splitting roles on the island into units. After that, we compared our charter and law to some of the past laws like Habeas Corpus, etc.

Core Competency Reflection

1. In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by… building off the other person. In this case, when working with my partner we would build off of each others ideas and gradually add our points.
2. An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is… when my partner brought up the idea of units I thought of what each unit should be called and their responsibilities. My partner also brought up the idea of the Justice Unit and I brought up the idea of having a leader from each unit to make up the Justice Unit.
3. I seek, develop and weigh options as demonstrated by…when I was told to compare our government to Justinian Code and Magna Carta I would develop and weigh options as I carefully studied the notes of the powerpoint so I could choose which parts were similar to the government we created
4. · Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen in… discussions with my partner as we branched off of each others ideas. Of course there are disagreements so we would talk about each of our points, then settle on an idea to include in our project. Class time was used wisely and our conversations and ideas contributed to the project

Goal: I can contribute to and work with criteria to improve my own work; evidence of that is…

My goal is to continue working on this and checking on the criteria so that I can get better scores. I will work on this as I approach future projects and instead of just doing work and calling it a day, I will look over and proofread the work that I did in hopes to improve it.

Curricular Competency Reflection

We were able to create a government to keep the Island in order. The first thing we came up with was Units and with divisions of Justice, Agricultural, Cooking, Exploration, etc. While doing this project, we had to think about possible outcomes for each idea. This means setting limits and additional rules to laws. I think we worked well because we were able to finish the project on time. We also used class time well. Some things that we could work on is using that extra time that we had to further our information on our government. Using the extra time could gain more points in the future.