Sum Blog 8

I really enjoyed coming to an 8 am class and to get to play Monopoly. Playing Monopoly was a great twist to add to the learning experience in the class room. In the group that I was in my partner and I were in the 3rd group, which we found out at the end of class represented single mothers. My partner and I started out with $895 and when we passed go we would receive $170(I think). On our first role we ended up landing on community chest and the card stated that we got to take a ride on the reading railroad (which was behind us) this was the only time that we got to go all the way around the board. However by landing on reading railroad we immediately had to pay the person who had bought it $25. Since we were in the third group we knew that we needed to avoid rolling any doubles, well with that said what was our next roll? Yeap you guessed it on the next roll we rolled a double putting us directly in jail. Once in jail we had a choice to make we could either sit out for 3 turns or pay in $100, this time we decided to just sit and wait. After the 3 turns were up and it was our turn again we rolled and got out of jail but immediately landed on someone’s property thus having to pay about $30. On our next turn we rolled another double and proceeded to sit in jail for the rest of the game. We paid to get out once or twice but after continually landing in jail my partner and I concluded that it would be best to save our money and sit in jail.

While talking about how the game was a comparison to real life we concluded that people would often sit in jail due to lack of opportunities and the bad choices that the make. In life it is often easier to do the time instead of paying the money for a lawyer and risking losing money and the case. Also in our game after finding out that we represented single mothers we decided that we were in jail for prostitution and were not good at not getting caught.