Welcome to the Island Game
In this term you will find yourself marooned on a desertisland. You will have to set up a community, develop a set ofrules for people to live by, decide what values your island isgoing to hold and how you will express them. In themeantime you will be set a number of challenges that youwill have to cope with. Read on........
Marooned........
•TASKS:
No. 1: You are in a group which hasfound itself marooned on adesert island. You need to draw,in detail, the island you are on.Each person in your group hasexplored a different part of theisland. Now draw what you haveseen onto your island map.Include all the natural featuresand any wildlife you have comeacross. What do you name yourisland and why? What is thename of your group and why?
Your island.........
Survival........
•No. 2: You now remember thatalthough you have survived onyour island, four of your friendsdid not. Why did you surviveand your friends did not? Luck?Strength? Supernaturalintervention? Write down yourstory about the reasons yousurvived and others did not.
Your story........
Leadership.....
•No. 3: Elect a leader. You are tocome up with your own systemof election of the group leader.Leadership of the group will notbe easy, as people will dependon you for difficult decisions –you might often be moaned at,and you will have to take onboard the responsibility for thegroup’s safety and survival. Howwill you elect such a person? –they might not always be themost obvious person.
Who is the rightperson..........
The Group........
•No. 4: The leader is to assigntasks to each member. Thetask sheet will be given to youby your teacher. Why have youallocated each member of thegroup a particular task? Is itclear what each group memberis supposed to do? What willbe the punishment if they donot fulfil their requirements?How does the punishment fitthe crime?
Fulfillingresponsibilities......
Learning to livetogether......
•No. 5: It is very clear that youwill have to produce a set ofrules for living on this island.How will you do this? Groupdecision? Will the leaderimpose his/her decisions? Willyou ask for any help from theGod/s of the island, if the islandhas such? What will you do if amember of your group does notfollow the rules? What are thereasons behind the rules? Arethey based on what you believeis important on your island?When you have decided who willbe responsible for the rulesenter that on your task sheet.
Setting boundaries...
It’s a mystery.....
•No. 6: Something mysterioushappens....you will receivefurther instructions from yourteacher......
Surviving throughdifficulty........
Disaster........
•No. 7: A major problem occurson your island...what is it? Adisease? A disagreement?Something wrong with thewater? An attack? Somethingelse? How do you solve it? Is itcaused naturally, or by somehuman intervention? Is itthrough the actions of amember of your group? Didthey follow the rules? Is itbecause of somethingsupernatural?
Will you survive? Canyou trust each other?Where will help comefrom?.........
Who is in control...
•No. 8: Something strange isgoing on.....things keephappening for which there is nonatural explanation......what isthis due to? What will you doabout it?
Is there somethingbigger going on thatyou don’t knowabout?
THE FORCE.....
•No. 9: You discover thatsomething called THE FORCE isresponsible for everything thathas happened on your island,and even the fact that you didn’tdie, but survived to live on theisland. How do you discoverthis? What are you going to doabout THE FORCE? What is THEFORCE like? How do you knowthis?
What/who is THEFORCE?....
Can you/will you trustTHE FORCE?.....
THE FORCE........
•No. 10: THE FORCE hascommunicated with one of yourgroup, and said that there will be avisit very shortly where you willknow THE FORCE has come. Whatwill you do in preparation for THEFORCE? Your task now is toconstruct a special building tohonour THE FORCE and torepresent your island. You willthen be asked to design aceremony/celebration/festival ofyour island and the goodness THEFORCE has shown to you. You havea design sheet to work through forthe task of designing your specialbuilding and your festival.
Coming to theisland...how will youknow THE FORCE hascome?.....
What will you do?......
Questions,questions......
•No. 11: THE FORCE hascommunicated to you; yourgroup leader can approach himwith 5 questions from the group.Choose your questions carefully.THE FORCE will answer thequestions in a way you willunderstand. What are yourquestions going to be?
What do you need toknow?
Are the answers THEFORCE gives helpful?...
Your treasure box...
•No. 12: THE FORCE has made itclear that you are now to leavethe island. You are given onesmall box into which you placesome things if ever the island isinhabited again. What will youleave in your box that reallyrepresents the island, and yourstory on it? If a person read orsaw what you left, would theyunderstand the story of yourtime on the island? What willyou advise the next group ofpeople who find your island todo? What would you tell themto avoid or preserve?
What shows that youhave been there, andwhat tells othersabout your group?.....
