5/2/2023 0 Comments The Game of Life![]() ![]() ![]() I broke my classes up into two or three groups. ( Note: I'm not going to share their essays here because we actually ended up doing a combined interdisciplinary project with their ELA class where they had to make connections between The Game of Life and The Necklace, the book they were reading in their ELA class at the time). ![]() This ultimately lead to a full class conversation in a Socratic Seminar and an argumentative essay where they need to argue about whether or not the game is realistic. If something is misrepresented, or not even present, then they needed to offer a potential changes to the rules in order to make the game more realistic. and explain how they are represented, misused, or absent in the game. I wanted my students to take the knowledge of what they have learned about credit cards, medical care, budgeting, cost of children, savings, interest, retirement, debt, etc. How would you modify the game (rules, action cards, careers, etc) in order to make it a better representation of real life. In what ways are the financial consequences of someone’s actions & personal choices often in or out of their control? ![]()
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