Kelli Vogel

November 22, 2016

     Today in class we did an activity. This activity was to test our ability on how well we know the American Dream. The activity consisted of building different objects using household materials such as paperclips, scissors, paper that has different designs on it, along with other building necessities.  The objective was to trade your materials with other groups to make your survival needs, for example my group started off with 5 paperclips, a pen and wavy paper. We had to build a book out of white paper and we didn't have white paper so we traded some of our wavy paper for scissors in one group and then in another we had to trade wood paper for some more white paper. This task was kind of hard because most groups did not want to trade with us and or they didn't need what we had. For example group 1 did not want to make trades with anyone because they had everything they needed to build with. Some groups were willing to trade but they were very rude about not trading, because they had everything they needed they felt superior, and they thought they were going to win.
     My group was not successful at all. we only accomplished making the book, half the house, and the ring. I wish we were more successful but the other groups did not want to trade with us. I know that we weren't successful because we did they least amount of work. I think the thing that really held us back was lack of communication with our group and with other groups. This experiment reveals success in the American Dream because it demonstrates that when you have a lot in life or when you have everything in life you don't need to communicate with the lower class because they aren't the same as you, to sum it up, "you are better than them." All in all this was a fun activity and i hope that we can do something like this again.