For this assignment I utilized the Core Competency Communication.
Our job was to take an animal from the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, and create a political campaign in order for our animal to become the leader of Animal Farm. Our group-me, Bella, Olivia, and Matthew- chose the animal Moses. Moses is a raven, and described as ‘tame and cunning’ which lead us to advocating for him as leader.

The Competency Communication is obviously communication with peers. But breaking that down, its asking simple direct questions and being an active listener. When disagreeing, its sharing your opinion in a respectful way and building on other people’s ideas with speech. I think our group was fairly good at communicating. Quickly, we were able to assign parts, Olivia on poster, Matthew on video, me on the good things about Moses, and Bella on bad things about all the other animals. We built on each others parts as well, asking questions that opened to more information, and getting rid of irrelevant or repetitive information in our pieces of the project.

Communication isn’t just between people you know, it’s also being able to share your information with other people. To show our work, we did a presentation in front of the class showing all the pieces we did separately into one project. We also handed in all of our written work to Mr. Bell. To be marked accordingly, Mr. Bell has to be able to see the work we talked about on stage, in those stacks of paper. For his ease, I organized my notes in simple point form, clearly demonstrating why Moses should be the leader of Animal Farm.

We all did our separate parts, just as we did in our ‘Afrika Road Project’ and combined them at the end for a finished project. Although we did split the work into separate tasks, we got help from other members to help each other complete our sections on time. Although, we did make a mistake which I’ll explain in the next paragraph.

I think our weakness as a group was Critical Thinking. More specifically, ‘experimenting with different ways of doing things.’ When Matthew turned out to be sick on the day of the election, we weren’t quite prepared for what to do, as we hadn’t sent the video presentation to anyone else. We were able to call him, and after many tries we were able to get the video and present. However I think we now know how important it is not to leave your project with just one person of the group. However, due to our communication, we were able to win the election, and Moses became leader of Animal Farm. Our strength was communication. When we were unsure, we could ask others for their ideas and opinions, and incorporate everyone’s voice into the project. We were able to voice our strengths, and assign parts in a way that would benefit the things we were good at, making completing the project easier.