The Death Swamp active was inspired by the short story "The Most Dangerous Game"by Richard Connell, in which we, as a group, get across a imaginary swamp, without falling.
Henry Ford once said, “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” In other words working together makes everything comes into place. Working in my group, we had to cross death swamp while behind us were general Zaroff and his dogs ready to kill us. The objective seemed pretty simple at first, get across without falling, but as the days progressed my team then realized how wrong we were. The skills we used were cooperation, problem solving, and critical thinking. We worked together without much problems and after a while we realized what to do but it was to late
What we were really doing was crossing the grass without touching the ground. But if you used your imagination you really were being chased by the general. We were given 5 lengths of 2X4’s and 1 length of rope. Then as a team we were to go across 7 cinderblocks without touching the ground in any way. If any part of your body touched the ground the whole team had to start from the beginning. What are team was supposed to do was walk across, one side to the other.
At first it seemed really easy but as the 1st group went we saw how hard it really was. That’s when are group first idea came. The idea really wasn’t ours but it looked like it was going to work so we used it. I had ideas but only told Ashley. Agustina Richard and Stefanie all told their ideas and Carlos stayed quiet and just did what he was told to do. Desmond wasn’t in the group in till the last day but he did help
I, on the other hand didn’t do much. I recorded for the teacher when group 1 went and when it was my groups turn I waited for instructions. Then when it was time to cross I just made sure not to fall which was pretty easy until the other groups messed up my concentration. All thought my team didn’t get across we had fun and we worked well together. Our plan didn’t work because not everyone knew the plan maybe if we calmed down and went thought it together we would have “survived”.