The first step in mini-society is truly creating a society. We spent a lot of time talking about why communities have rules, what happens when people follow the rules, and what happens when people don't follow the rules. We established our direct democracy to handle problems if and when they arose.
Once we had established that our classroom rules would be our society rules, we were ready to move onto the next phase of the plan. We gave our society a name. Eventually, we settled on Smartville. We are a gifted and talented class after all. Then we decided we would be called Smartvillians. These appealed to all of us. Both those who always wanted to be a hero or the villian in our own comic book.
Soon it was time to create the symbols of our society. We each designed a flag for our society. Once all the flags were displayed we voted (direct democracy in action) on which one would represent us. We had the artist recreate the flag on a huge poster that we hung in the hallway outside our door.
Next, we moved onto the currency. Every country has currency as its foundation of economics. We each designed our currency based on our society name and what we thought was important to be on the bills. Once again we all displayed our currency and we voted on the one we thought best suited for our society. Once we had the design we moved it into the printing phase. We designed it on the computer, giving it all of the added touches for real money.
With the formation of our society rules, name, flag, and monetary system in place, we were ready to head into the wonderful world of economics full steam ahead.
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