THE IMAGINARY COUNTRY
REFLECTION


In civics we have been making rules for our own imaginary country. In class today we talked about the guaranteed rights each citizen should have in our country. We worked together quite easily because we had a lot of the same ideas for the rules. Such as education, food and shelter, healthcare, the right to vote and freedom/freedom of speech.

I don't think anybody really dominated the conversation because we all had the same ideas so there wasn't really much arguing. I think the three most important ideas that we had where food and shelter, freedom of speech, and healthcare. These are all important because you need food and shelter to survive and without healthcare you won't live that long. And if you take away somebody's freedom of speech you sort of take away their humanity.

I think life would be absolutely terrible for these rules. Think about it if we didn't have these rules people would be allowed to kill each other, steal, discriminate and etc. think about how much people react when someone gets killed think about how much worse it would be if that happened every day right here in Canada. Think about how sad that would be. It's a sad thing to think about but it's pretty serious this happens around the world all the time and it is really underestimated in Canada!!!! We haven't really good.

After we made up our own rules we looked at the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” so there was a couple things I would want to add to our imaginary country's rules such as- being allowed to marry who you want and have a family, not being allowed to be tortured or have some to torture you, and no child labor.