Game Day!

  Today in Jimmy's class we played board games for the entire class period. Not only did we get to be kids and get to see how fun they were, but we got to study the board games. The things that we had to study were the story, characters, themes, icons, conflict, risk-reward, symbolism and the way you win.  When I started to play the games with my classmates I kept these things in mind. The games that I got to play were Chutes and Ladders, Scrabble, Cranium and Life. The game that really stood out to me was Life. As I was playing it with my classmates I started to think about different things like what was the theme behind Life. I figured that by taking a career or taking the college path and seeing if the game gives you a great outcome in Life, it was as though you got to learn a thing or two about real life. The characters in the game were cars. The way that you won the game was to get through it and the person with the most money in the end won. With playing the game we had to find the strategy of the game. We learned that if on your turn you landed on the space that had trade salary with another player, this was the best thing that you can get because you were able to get a higher salary than the one that you got in the beginning of the game. In the end, I liked how much fun we all had playing the game.