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What has your own experience and the reading of "All Summer in a Day" shown you about group behavior versus individual behavior?
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doing things in a group is better than doing things alone. When u r in a group u have more say than when u r by urself. In the book a girl gets shut in the closet by a group of girls and she can't get out because she is alone. Also Mrs. A is beautiful and i love her class.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they tend to think that it's okay to pick on individuals. Groups bully people because they think that it's fun. In the book the group shoves Margot in the closet and makes her miss the sun. Margot was very disappointed that she missed it.
ReplyDeletePicking on one individual is a terrible thing. Picking on anybody is terrible. Everybody has their moments but non stop bullying should'nt be tolerated. Groups behavior can definetly be more effective to the person because more than one person picking on them can be pretty painful. Individual behavior will probobly sting the same though
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group, they hesitate to help somebody else, or they pick on one certain person. No one person will speak up because they are either afraid of what somebody else is going to say or they are depending on somebody else to speak up first.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they tend to get louder, less attentive. So like in the story when the teacher asked if all the students were there, she really wasn't paying attention. She didn't realize that Margot was missing, because all the students told her that they were all there, and they were all as loud as normal, because Margot was normally a very quiet person.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they usually pick on one certain person or they won't be the first person to speak up/help somebody. This is usually because they are depending on somebody else to speak up first, and the more people, then the less responsibility is put on everybody else.
ReplyDeleteSomeone like Margot who is shy and unspoken is usually the kind of person that is the target of so many people. Someone who's easy to break down and won't say anything. Groups will pick the weakest, like Margot. An individual doesn't really get the back up like you would if you were involved with a group of people.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they are more likely to converse and share there ideas, but sometimes this falls on only one or two people in a group. Shy and quiet people, like Margot get unnoticed. In the story, when the group of girls, lock Margot in the closet alone. She is a very reserved person, so she doesn't do anything about it and she misses the sun.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they usually talk different then if with one other friend. then they usually pick on someone that is insecure and is shy and quiet. usually its under peer pressure. their might be one or two people that don't want to do something with the group but will to be "cool".
ReplyDeleteGroups of teenagers can be rediciously mean and out of control. They tend to pick on thoes who are different from what there use to. Margot is a victim of that. But Margot is also an example of a reserved person who still needs to find it in them to stand up for there self when others are cruel.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they think that it is okay if they chose one person and pick on them. They can be very cruel like how the kids in the class locked Margot into the closet when the sun came out. The only reason why they chose her was because they were different and that is normally how a group choses a person to bully. People need to think about what they are doing and how it will effect the person that they are doing it to.
ReplyDeleteI think that when people are in a group they try to act all cool, and someways people may do this is to pick on others. people may pick on people that are different, like margot. This could be different to individual behavior becasue they may not see any reason to pick on that person. They just do it in groups to fit in
ReplyDeleteDuring this hard-ditting story, I picked up more on the absence of the sun and happiness, not the group acting against the individual. As short as this story may have been, a lot of ideas and concepts spoke to me. One of course was the group acting against Margot. People act in fear, people act along the ideals of others to gain and/or feel powerful. They got what they wanted. Some of the children must have been afraid to act against the group, for they might end up in the same situation Margot was in, while others may have acted to increase their own status, of ignorance, or in plain and unmerciful cruelty. For something that occurs every seven long, hopeless years, locking someone in a closet is not an easily forgiveable wrongdoing. They separated Margot for her differences, and locked her away as if she was simply a chest being stored away for years to come to keep out of sight. She was not one of them, she wasn't born on their planet, she was different, unique, if you will. And they shoved her away. For the only two hours that sunlight glisten across the jungle of a landscape, Margot was not there.
ReplyDeleteBeing an individual, and having the rest of your class look down on you isn't easy. For a large group, it's simple to find one target and try to make their life as miserable as possible. The group in the text singled Margot out because she's shy, and doesn't stick up for herself very well. The group took advantage of the time in the classroom when a teacher wasn't present and decided they would all gang up on Margot because she was defenseless. And, because Margot is so quiet, her class forgot about her being in the closet, and she missed out on seeing the only ounce of sun they have seen for years.
ReplyDeleteWhen people are in a group they usually "follow" them. They usually start to act the way the "leader acts, talk th way they talk, and and do what they say and agree with them and not have their own opinion. This is just like when the boy told the whole class that they should put Margot in the closet. And then they forget about her, and for the only two hours the sun was out leave her in there.
ReplyDeletewell it shows us that if one person knows something or believes in something different from their peers, then they are usually the one to be a target. It's not right but it involves peer pressure, so others are going to follow the lead of somebody that says the loner is wrong, just because the loner knows something that they may not, or something others don't believe. Unfortunately this happens even if certain people of the group don't agree.
ReplyDeleteI think when people work in a group they can accomplish more because they get ideas from more than one person. More than one mind to help put ideas forward.
ReplyDeleteI believe that when a person is in a group they will act a lot different from when they are all by themselves. Like a person might know somebody really good when they are by themselves but will probably tease them when they are in a group. Also a person will do stuff that they might never do by themselves when they are in a group, but when they are in a group they might feel pressured to do the same thing that the group is doing.
ReplyDeleteWhen a person is in a group they will work a lot different than when they are alone.A person will act different and work together in a group, than when alone. A group of girls threw a girl into a closet and she couldn't get out because she is one individual.
ReplyDeleteIn a group, people act more alike. They talk badly about other, weaker, people. In a group, people also might be peer pressured to do things they wouldn't usually do on their own. They usually pick on the weakest one. They make fun of them and tease them. Individually though, people are usually really different. They think through things and don't follow others. They can have their own opinion that isn't influenced by others.
ReplyDeletewhen people hang out together they can be way immature and get in a lot of trouble. They are not so immature when they are alone or with their family. Every different person someone hangs out with and looks up to, usually follows them and does the same they do. People that are in groups look at themselves as big dogs and bully sometimes. Some ignorant people just don't think... treat people the way that you want to be treated. how would bullies like it if they were picked on everyday?..I bet they wouldn't like it at all.
ReplyDeleteI agree with alexis. In groups kids tend to want to follow what the rest of the group is doing and will pick on someone or make that individual weak by attacking him mentally and sometimes physically. One individual will think more clearly and will maybe even stick up for that person. You have an advantage in some cases when you are not in a group and just being you.
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