How+We+Organise+Ourselves

Term2 UOI Reflection The first thing that happened was Mr. K informed us what ourUOI’s were. After we finish How the World Works we were continuing onto How weOrganise Ourselves. A few weeks later we were told we had to do a Majorassessment. The name of it was Can we use Science to improve it? We had to pickany Scientific Principle and an object in everyday life and see if you can usescience to improve it. I picked Centrifugal Force. The object I picked was acar. I got 25/27 on the PowerPoint assessment; I got the mark that I wanted.

While we were still on the topic of science we did a Coke andMentos experiment outside on the oval. We got a huge reaction!

Then we started a role-play called ‘AbsoluteMonarchy’. It was about how all the kings and queens lived in the old day wherethere were serfs, nobles, knights and of course the king. Our king was KingNoah. I was chosen as a Noble. It was a big surprise to me and the whole classas we didn’t know we were doing a role-play. Being a Noble was awesome. I got akind of passé of serfs that had to do my bidding; the serfs could not sit downwithout permission, (that made me laugh) and they could not speak unless spokento.

At the end of that day all the serfs were tryingto escape out the back door and the knights had to catch them. So the king andhis knights decided to make a jail for the escaping serfs to stay prisoner in.

When the home bell went I was really sad becausethe day was over but my spirits soon lifted as I relised what a great day itwas. (Unless you were a serf.)

Our next role play was Voting for Lunch. The ruleswere easy. The only thing we had to do was vote for either: Bailey Burger, LambSouvlaki and Caesar Salad. The only hard bit was, there was a bell, and we hadto run inside in about 3 minutes.

I voted for Lamb Souvlaki but in the end theBailey Burger and Lamb Souvlaki had a tie. So we went on to second preferencevotes and the Bailey Burger won.

The next week on Wednesday we had the BaileyBurger for Lunch. I thought it was much better than my normal Lunch but if wehad the Lamb Souvlaki I think the Lunch would be better.

The next role play was Speeches for Parliament. Wewere assigned to the Labour Party, Liberal Party, Independents Party, GreensParty and Family First Party. I was in the Labour Party and my electorate wasDal’ Giara. In the end I was not elected. Joel from the other class waselected. In total nobody from the Labour Party got selected so the Labour Partyhad to elect a leader. I was elected as the leader. Then we started on ourbill. Soon after we learned that the Labour Party could no longer exist, so theLabour Party would become the key roles of parliament. Because I was the leaderI got to choose first, I chose the Speaker.

The next thing which happened is for the bills fromthe other parties will be read and tried to be made into an act of parliamentwhich is a law.