“Trapped”, which was written by Marc Aronson, is a book about hope, teamwork, and problem solving. This book zooms in on the rescue mission of 33 miners, who were trapped in a mine for a total of 69 days. Buried 2,000 feet below the Chilean Desert, the rescuers above land face challenges, while the miners struggle to survive underground with limited resources. A theme the author could be trying to show is that with teamwork and a hopeful mindset, your chances of success will increase. Hints of this theme can be found throughout the book, where working as a team brings them together. Furthermore, the rescuers only find the trapped men because of their motivation to find the lost men, which was brought on by hoping and believing they were still alive. You should read this book because firstly, it’s fascinating to learn about how the world rescued the miners from so far down. Second of all, the story follows the miners’ perspective, and I found their story very interesting because of their challenges and problem solving in pressuring moments. Even though nothing in this book connects to current issues, it was an interesting read and I learnt a lot […]
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Ancient Mesopotamia- Day One Simulation Reflection
Our task during today’s simulation was to make our team the richest society (group) in the class. There were five different jobs: Law enforcing, Architecting, creating a Written language, Trading, and The Secret Project, which was a catapult. Whoever was the richest society won the simulation. My job was to create the written language and after that help with creating the laws. One thing that worked really well is that we had a lot of our supplies from the start, and one weak point was that our team had a limited amount of tape because other teams needed it as well. Next time I would suggest to split the jobs so that two people occupied the job that was more difficult, like the temple building worksheet.