Island Project-Individual Reflection
Melody Yin
Doring
English 10H
December 14, 2013
Island Project Part V: Individual Project Reflection
This island project was very different from most projects I’m assigned but as my group heard from others, we realized it relates to the plot of Lord of the Flies. We initially had trouble thinking of a title for our island and found many conflicts as we discussed the rules. For a lot of the time, we focused on what the penalty was for each rule. Half of us decided our vague rules were not punishable and the other half knew these shouldn’t be considered rules if rules are something to be punished for if broken. “No forming alliances” evolved into “don’t go anywhere alone, especially at night” and we took out unreasonable rules that are basically unpreventable.
For example, it’s impossible to punish a person for mutiny if they are already rebelling and out of your grasp.
After determining who explores what part of the island, we promised each other to write about a couple of humorous happenings in our individual “Exploration” work. We also decided to name our island “Death & Taxes” because we found it ironic. Royal wrote about the center of the island where he found a rhinoceros and Lindsey wrote about a bunch of squirrels at the fruit orchard. By the time we began the map in part III of this project, we had discussed how everything would piece together. It was difficult to find a place to start the map so we roughly assigned each person a part to draw. We began the map with rough sketch in pencil and found it challenging to draw a rhinoceros and place the water source, our cave and tidepools, and the different types of trees in an appealing way. I was basically scribbling and marking off the areas we described in our exploration papers. Royal tried to draw a compass rose a number of times
on the back of Lindsey’s papers with Serene’s assistance while Sarah filled the middle of the blobshaped island with trees and Lindsey began
Doring
English 10H
December 14, 2013
Island Project Part V: Individual Project Reflection
This island project was very different from most projects I’m assigned but as my group heard from others, we realized it relates to the plot of Lord of the Flies. We initially had trouble thinking of a title for our island and found many conflicts as we discussed the rules. For a lot of the time, we focused on what the penalty was for each rule. Half of us decided our vague rules were not punishable and the other half knew these shouldn’t be considered rules if rules are something to be punished for if broken. “No forming alliances” evolved into “don’t go anywhere alone, especially at night” and we took out unreasonable rules that are basically unpreventable.
For example, it’s impossible to punish a person for mutiny if they are already rebelling and out of your grasp.
After determining who explores what part of the island, we promised each other to write about a couple of humorous happenings in our individual “Exploration” work. We also decided to name our island “Death & Taxes” because we found it ironic. Royal wrote about the center of the island where he found a rhinoceros and Lindsey wrote about a bunch of squirrels at the fruit orchard. By the time we began the map in part III of this project, we had discussed how everything would piece together. It was difficult to find a place to start the map so we roughly assigned each person a part to draw. We began the map with rough sketch in pencil and found it challenging to draw a rhinoceros and place the water source, our cave and tidepools, and the different types of trees in an appealing way. I was basically scribbling and marking off the areas we described in our exploration papers. Royal tried to draw a compass rose a number of times
on the back of Lindsey’s papers with Serene’s assistance while Sarah filled the middle of the blobshaped island with trees and Lindsey began