The Most Perfect Worlds

Last Thursday, twenty nine "perfect worlds" were in our classroom! The Language Arts assignment was to create our own perfect world- with the perfect political system, monetary setup, the perfect environment, the choice of animals or not... etc. Almost everyone had a certain "theme" to theirs: there was a candy land world, world of movies and entertainment, a stress free world, music world, paradise/island worlds, desserts and sweets world... and many others!

There were four sections to the project, and we had eight weeks to complete it. First section was answering the questions (for example, what are the holidays/traditions?) in a creative way, like in a guidebook, story, or magazine. The second section was to write a "day in the life" story about a teenage girl in our world. Third, was to create an overhead map- many students got very creative at this part; There were collages, maps made of food, drawings, dioramas, etc. The final section was to include at least ten vocabulary words of our world, and what they mean and how to use them.

It was a super fun assignment, and it was great to have so much freedom with it. How many other students from other schools get to create their perfect world they would love to live in, and share it with the community (other grades and faculty came in to view them)? Although this was a challenging academic project- it was hard to think of things such as the political system: it's definitely challenging to think of a completely perfect way to run your world!

We all worked hard on the project, and spent many hours working, although some people learned that although we had two months to finish, we have to make our own benchmarks and use all of the time given.

Thanks for reading about the 8th grade's perfect worlds!