Today, majority of the students brought many different types of games for class. We started the class first by listing out a bunch of different games and then went into details for one game as an example of purposes. For example, why was this game created? What is it trying to teach us? An example that was used in clads was the game monopoly. It was made around the great depression, in a slight way of making fun of the rich. It also served as a purpose to teach people about capitalism, which our country runs on.
The rest of the day was dedicated to playing the games we brought in. It was up to us to decide on which games we wanted to play but eventually we were to switch off with a different group of people to play a different game. So the first game I played was the game I brought from home. The game is called "apples to apples." this version was a smaller version to play to go. So the game consists of two colored cards, a red and green card. The green cards are all adjective words. The red cards consists of random nouns or noun phrases. Each person is receives seven red cards and the first person to go draws a green card. Everyone except the one who drew the green card chooses only one of their own red card from their hand that they think would fit for the adjective, and places it face down. The person who drew the green card then picks up the red cards and chooses which card they feel should be chosen. The first person to gain a certain amount of green cards, wins. Depending on how many people are playing, the amount of green cards needed to win changes. We were then to refer back to the game and ask ourselves what it was that made this game fun. With apples to apples, what made the game fun was the humor. Sometimes when an adjective appeared, it was difficult to choose a noun to fit the word. Sometimes the word chosen are completely ridiculous, enough to make one laugh. This game uses humor a lot in order to make it fun.
After playing this game, we moved on to another game. It was a word game called Boggle. It was a bit fun for the first few rounds but after the fifth, we kind of just got tired of it. This was probably because the interaction between playing wasn't very social. We would spend three minutes in silence writing as much words as we could in order to win. There wasn't much socializing amongst each other so I found that a tad boring. We then switched to UNO which was more amusing. Though we didn't say much when playing the game, the constant push towards trying to make the other person to lose was amusing and much more fun. It was a lot more tense too because you don't know what card the other player has.
There was also something that Jimmy said today opened my eyes. He had written on the board instead of homework, something else. He had said to the class that our work should not actually be work for us and that it should be fun for us. Otherwise, what the heck are we doing here? His words were certainly enough to make me think twice before complaining about "work."
Adjectives:
Intense - strong pressure
Awesome - impressive
Fresh - new
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