Kid Nation #4

Social Interaction: Some of these kids on kid nation have relationships with each other like friendship. Other relationships are like religions, jobs, and even groups. The town council has to have a social interaction to communicate with each other and make decisions together. Other kids have bad relationships with each other because of their religion. Most of the kids there have friendships with each other.

Ascribed Status: The kids have been assigned into groups. The groups where chosen into their jobs instead of choosing their jobs. The kids were assigned into their jobs by their place in the competition. They are now going to be placed into jobs and classes again after the competition. They are working hard to get the upper class status.

Achieved Status: The kids are trying to achieve to the status of the upper class. They also want to get the gold star at the end of the week. The blue team is now the upper class and that is what they were looking forward to winning in the competition. The other groups are trying to get the other places and not get the last place that gets the least amount of money. If every group finishes then everyone gets a reward for the town and they did, and they chose the bibles because of their achievements.

Poorest President

The poorest president in the world has a salary of $12,500 and he donates 90% of that to charity. I think that he is very nice by doing that and helping other people by donating. His salary is low but but he is still donating his money. He doesn't even make a lot of money for a president and he still wants to help other people. If I saw this man I would congratulate him on his niceness. I think that everyone should be as nice as this man.

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My Weekend

This past weekend was very special. We had a five day weekend from school. Since this weekend was Easter weekend, I went to church. I went to church on Friday and Sunday. We were off from Thursday to Monday. On Thursday, I stayed home and basically did nothing. On Friday, I went to the mall with my mom and went to church that night. On Saturday, I slept in, relaxed, and even made cookies. On Easter Sunday, I went to church, had an Easter lunch/dinner, and spent time with my family. On Monday, I basically did nothing again all day. For me, I had a very relaxing five day weekend.

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Kid Nation #3

Desocialization- The kids have to give up values from their homes to be in kid nation. They had to give up t.v. and even cell phones. They now have to live in the conditions of kid nation. They also have to have a new behavior for the t.v. show. They will have to learn to be nice to the other kids on the show.

Self-Concept- Greg is seeing himself as being the oldest kid there. He thinks that he can do what he wants to do. He is acting like he is the boss of everyone in kid nation. He is even cussing at the kids to get them to stop talking to him. The town council is also trying to tell him to be nicer to the other kids.

Game Stage- The kids in kid nation have to play a game to find out what their place is in the town. They have to guess what the other teams will end up doing in the game stage. They need to think and figure out what to do in the game to win and beat the other teams. They have to communicate with their teams to win. The kids have to figure out what the other teams will do to win.

Kid Nation #2

Counter- Culture: The kids that want the chickens to live are considered in  a counter- culture. They think that it is wrong to kill the chickens for dinner and eat them. They are against the councils decision of killing the chickens. One of the girls that wanted to not kill the chickens ended up running away when they were killing the chickens.

Values: The chickens in the town are considered values, fresh meat. They have other values like cooking material too. They needed fresh meat to survive so they had to find more values in the town. They had a problem with the water pump in the town too so that was one of their values that was disabled but they ended up fixing the water pump to have more water.

Formal Sanctions: The kids have a challenge to receive rewards or formal sanctions. One of their rewards is a water slide. Other rewards are positions in the towns like upper class, cooks, etc. The first group to finish got the most money and the others, going down in order, get less money. If every group finishes on time, the whole town gets a reward but this challenge didn't finish on time, so they didn't get a reward.

My Weekend

This past weekend, I was a my best friends birthday party and had a lot of fun. She invited some of my closest friends too so we were all crazy. Their were seven of us in total so we were really loud. We went to see the movie "Divergant" and had a lot of fun. I think we had way to much candy because we didn't go to bed until 1:00 in the morning. We were all pretty tired the next day, and I really needed more sleep than I did the next night. I wish we could have a sleepover like that every weekend.

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Kid Nation

     Perspective is an individuals point of view that is effected by experiences. The kids in the town all have different perspectives on what they need to do in the town to survive. The town council might need to have the same perspectives to choose a kid to get the gold star.

     Capitalists are the people that own the means to produce wealth. These people are the town council in the Kid Nation town. The town council gets to decide who goes in which group and they get to decide who does what in the town.

     Social Structure is the patterned interactions of people in social relationships. I think that the people in each group need to have social structure to be able to stay together. The town council also needs to have social structure to pick the person for the gold star.

     Class Conflict is the struggle between people of different classes. An example would be when Kid Nation has the competition. The four teams had to compete against each other to find there jobs and workplaces. When the Kid Nation kids have a town meeting, the kids have some conflict with each other too. 

Friendly Letter

                                                                                                                       1717 W. Main St.
                                                                                                                       Festus, MO 63028
                                                                                                                       April 1, 2014
Dear Mrs. DeBolt,

     Here are some fun facts about me. I love to swim, dance, and listen to music. I'm am only child. I have three cats. I am really good at math; I'm in Pre-Algebra. My favorite hobbie is probably spending time with my friends. My favorite food is Mac and Cheese or Pizza. I love to go to Florida for vacations in summer.
     In my free time I like to listen to music or play games on my phone. My favorite subjects this year were Art, FACS, and hopefully Technology. I do plan on taking this class next year too for a semester class. So far, this class has been great and not what I thought it would be like. The subjects that I didn't like this year were Math and Writing. Sometimes those classes are confusing.
     I do have some experience with typing and technology. I did have to present a PowerPoint in Cultural Explorations last quarter, and had to edit and type essays in Writing. I do enjoy blogging and doing timed  typing tests to help improve my typing skills. I do hope that I will learn more about computers and technology this quarter from you and use it all my life.
                                                                                                                        Sincerely,
                                                                                                                        Erin Martise

Violent Video Games

I do believe that certain video games are making kids more violent because of all the blood, weapons, etc. When kids see that in the games that they play, they might feel that it is okay to do that in real life. In my opinion, I think that they should not have that type of things in video games to begin with. There are a lot of video games that have violence in them and the kids see it more and more every day and will continue to if they make more violent games for kids. Eventually when the kids get older, they might think it is okay to do those things and get in big trouble for it.

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