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1. My new understanding was...

By suggesting new laws it is easier to change a law than complaining about it.

I also learned that the US did not base their decisions on the seat belt laws on actual facts and this caused a problem for the country

2.The concept that was hard to understand...

I didn't understand how the three branches of the US government worked.

3. We really enjoyed...

Coming up with our own solutions to the nursery conflict because we got to put ourselves in the position of a member of the town discussion. I found it interesting that our group came up with similar solutions to the government's ideas.

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The new understanding was

There are many laws and rules in real life between friends, families, cities, towns, and more. That means we can also use rules when we play games or competitions

There are three branches executive, legislative, judiciary

There are main 5 conditions when we make a constitution, and one of them is that it has to be responsible after we make a constitution

It is better to change constitution before it is made because when we try to change the constitution after it is made, we have to reset all the other constitutions too.

We looked if the US citizen’s wealth by a graph. The highest class was only 1%. The normal class was about 30%. However, the lowest class was the half of the citizens, 50%.

The government made a seat belt, to be safe, and they changed that laws two times.

The concept of … was difficult

Magna Carta and the king John’s story was difficult because it was about history. I think King John was the first king that made everyone subject to law

The solution of how we solve the nursery problem was difficult. It is best when we can move the position, though it took lots of money, so we had to think of many other solutions, such as changing the path of the road, or limiting the time of traffics.

I really enjoyed

After we discussed of the solutions, Ashlynn’s dad told us what actually happened. I was really surprised when majority of the town people complained about the nursery, while only 7~12 people came in the discussion when 120 were in invited. It was very interesting to see that the citizens only wanted to look at the negative points, though they don’t try to find solutions. It made me think that when we dislike something, we should think of what we should do to make it improve, before we just let the government solve.

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1. my new understanding was...

About the way things were handled with the nursery thing because I thought that we should have kick them out but there were better things to do that that. I also learned that people complained but didn't do anything after the complain because they didn't want to put any effort in it.

2. This concept was hard to understand...

I got kinda confused when Mr. Guilfoile read the Manga Carta because no one in our entire unit had come across it or even mention it existed. And since it was older than most things it was hard to understand some of the things that was happening while Mr. Guilfoile was reading.

3. I really enjoyed...

The activity when we were sent into group to find the main problem of the inconvenience of building the nursery. In my group we had a lot of fun because we all got to say what we think and not just one person.

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1. My new understanding was....

I learned that what we thought was normal around us ( like constructing a building) was all connected to the laws. Before I knew that the government was relating on building structures in the neiborhoods, but I didn't know that laws were connected.

2. This concept was hard to understand..

The concept I felt which was really hard was the " Manga Carta". The reason why I found it hard was because, firstly to the explanation, there was hard vocabulary that I never heard before. Secondly beacause I never learned it when I was erase arching about the Japanese government.

3. I really enjoyed...

I enjoyed the activity which we had to think about the nursery school build in a neiborhoods hood that is not in a suitable condition. It was really fun to think of why we can't really agree to put the school there.

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1. My new understanding was...

I learned that building a nursurry can cause the neighbors a lot. At first, I thought that building a nursurry won't effect the life of the neighbors. Instead, I thought that it will be helpful to the neighbors because there weren't a lot of nursurry so the parent found it hard to bring their children to a nursery far from their house. However, by building nursery, lots of parents found it easier to bring their children to the nursery because another nursery was build near their house.

2. This concept was hard to understand...

The concept I found hard was the Manga Carta. I found this hard because I couldn't understand how it effects the citizens. Also, I couldn't understand because of the hard vocabulary Ashlynn's dad used to explain.

3. I really enjoyed...

I really enjoyed the activity we did about the nursery. I found that fun because I got to think and say my opinion about what to do and not only thinking, I got to listen to other peoples ideas which I couldn't think of by myself.

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1. My New Understanding was....

I learned that laws can have an unintended consequence. For example, seat belts. In 1964, seat belts were invented to decrease deaths and accidents. However, It decreased death but increased the number of serious injury on the lower part of people's body.

2. This Concept Was Hard To Understand.....

The concept I found hard to understand was the Legislative Branch and why we needed 3 branches....... I will try to research and get more knowledge.

3. I really enjoyed.....

What I really enjoyed was that we got to be part and got a chance to think and say our opinions about problems that go around us by working in groups. By not just listening and trying to remember facts about laws, we got to think ourselves and be a part of problems in real life.

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1. My new understanding was...

Laws can be a good thing that helps people, and sometimes it can be a negative thing. In the case that Mr. Guilfoile was talking about, the laws helped the citizens that lived around setagaya a lot. However, some of the laws that the citizens wanted for the neighbourhood were not made as a law. The government can't do everything for the citizens to make them happy but in setagaya, they at least tried and actually made a few new laws.

2. This concept was hard to understand...

I understood the basics of the magna carta, but i didn't understand why the citizens had to have a magna carta in the first place.

3.I really enjoyed...

Learning new things during the presentation and going into groups to make our understanding more clear. That really helped me. I also really enjoyed the cookies:)

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1. My new understanding was...

I learned that people complain but they don't want to help fix this issue instead they make other people do it. Ex. Mr.Guilfoile and a few other people held a meeting and only about 10 people came. It shows that they don't like this issue but they don't want to fix it. And I was so surprised by that because I never thought of this before. And intrested me.

This concept was hard/difficult to understand...

One thing that was hard for me to understand was when he talked about Magna Carta. It was hard for me to understand. Next time maybe make it a bit more simplistic.

I really enjoyed...

I enjoyed the last activity because we were trying to solve a situation that was actually real. It was fun thinking about the nursery but also the people who live in that neighborhood. It was challenging but fun. At the end we got to see the answers and what was approved and what wasn't. So I enjoyed that activity .

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1. My new understanding was...

The government can't help you with everything, and what I mean by that is that if someone got hurt already( with the seatbelt idea) why didn't the government stop using that seat belt and make a new one?

Their just killing more people.

2. The concept was hard to understand..

I think when Mr Guilfoile was explaining about the manga carta, it was very hard to understand so I will research more about it.

3. I really enjoyed...

The activity in the very end, because it made me think a lot.

On what is important and not.

Thank You:) Mize

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1.My new understanding was....

Laws are everywhere even in our living. For example, when you buy something in the shop, you line up behind the cash register. When we play games, we have law to make the games fair.

2.This concept was hard to understand...

The concepts that was hard to understand was Magna Carta.

3.I really enjoyed ....

I really enjoyed the speech that Ashlynn's father gave us, because not only the teacher will teach us, but people who had experiment will tell us about government.

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1.My new understanding was....

Laws are everywhere even in our living. For example, when you buy something in the shop, you line up behind the cash register. When we play games, we have law to make the games fair.

2.This concept was hard to understand...

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1. My new understanding was...

By suggesting new laws it is easier to change a law than complaining about it.

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1. My new understanding was...

that even throw there is laws, but the sometimes the laws didn't effect.

2. This concept was hard/difficult to understand...

The concepts that was hard to understand was Magna Carta.

3. I really enjoyed...

that the active. It was interesting to know different ideas of the picture.

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1. I understood that building a nursery effect the society by safety and being a nuisance neighborhood . How ever we learned community's perspective and feeling toward major problems for example some people feel its useless and they don't have more then the government so in the end the government has to find a solution so everyone is happy. Some people attend the meeting try to help as much as they can by discussing with the citizen's to convince them support their action. Furthermore these supporters try to use there tax to education and child care such as nursery, etc.

2. I didn't understand the function of magna carta and how it effects the society because the system was complicated. To understand magna carta I need to know about the preamble for it was a hard explanation of the relationships.

In conclusion inspite of his hard vocabulary's it was uneasy to define magna carta, how ever his vocabulary was fabulous and it was interesting to learn. My next step is to use vocabulary but I think I should define the word at the end. (Index)

3. I enjoyed doing the activity because I got to find the aim and how people might think. I assume that the citizen's role is to find as many people as possible to help persuade the government to change things to the right direction. It also important find what action is possible for you to do and to think about others not only yourself. I can connect with the talk before about Ashlynn's dad's perspective for building a nursery. All groups came up with several ideas (safety,effect on neighbors,location), but at last they took one main idea which came from parts of Ashlynn's dad's explanation. Looking through both perspectives(Ashlynn's dad's and each groups')I can say that taking some ideas from people is not that bad because from one ideas we can connect it and compare it with different new ideas. In the other hand, copying the essence and not changing it to your own words is not something you can be proud about because that is just stealing the whole thing from someone. As result the aim can change depending on the person but everyone has different vocabulary and concept. I can also say that by everyone's support the power of the public can change.

[Observing maria and mia's reflection, we thought that cookies were also instructing for resolving hack problems. (No puns included)]

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1.My new understanding.

I learned that one simple change like building a nursery can affect many of the neighbors around the building and can affect the daily lives of the people that live in the street around it.

2. This concept was hard/difficult to understand.

The Magna Carta was difficult to understand. Maybe next time they could use simpler and easier words and just explain the main idea...

3. I really enjoyed.

I really enjoyed getting to learn and think deeper into our unit with a guest speaker! I also really liked the way we got to interact with students that we normally don't discuss with.

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1. My new understanding.

I was surprised to hear how nursery noises became serious problems in our life.

2. This concept was hard/difficult to understand.

The concept I couldn't really get was about the Magna Carta.

3. I really enjoyed.

I really enjoyed the activities we did. I think we we're abled to think and share our opinions. Also, we could think what the solution should be. So I could know what other groups think.(Opinion)

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1. My new understanding

I learned about pyramid of the classes in the US. I was surprised to see that the population of the poor was about half of the whole citizens. My first image of America was rich, but now I wouldn't think like that.

2. This concept was hard/difficult to understand

I didn't really get about the Magna Carta. I think it would of been easier if it was explained with easier words, or with deep explanation.

3. I really enjoyed

I really enjoyed the activity about the problems and solutions that we made about the real life problem.

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1.My new understanding was...

that the law minsters aren't always looking at the consequences when creating a law therefore they end up amending it many times which takes a lot of time because of the process.I also learned that in the pyramid status of USA only 1% of the population are upper class and that 66% of the population are poor.

2.This concept was hard/difficult to understand...

The concept about Magna Carta was difficult for me to understand.So maybe they could have shortened and kept the slide simplisctic.

3.I really enjoyed...

Getting to do an activity because it gave me the chance to be a great thinker and see what I would have done if I were told to find solutions.It was also interesting that they were actually able to find a solution.

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1. Our new understanding was...

Yuna:I learned that seatbelt was being a problem and how it took time to change it.

Maiya: I learned that the seat belt has changed a lot during the years because of accidents.

The concept of...was difficult to understand because..

Yuna: The meaning of magna carta

was hard to understand

Maiya : The concept and meaning of the levels in the hierarchy was hard to understand.

We really enjoyed...

Yuna: I enjoyed the part when we had to get in groups o find problem in nursery and also the part when we want to find the solution for it.

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1. Our new understandings were...

Our new understanding was that there were people complaining about nursery noises, and it was actually a new real life problem.

2. The concept of ... was difficult to understand

The concept of how laws are commonly find in real government.

3. We really enjoyed

We enjoyed the group activities, getting know about recent example, and finding the solution in the solver's perspective.

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Our new understandings were...

Even though a country is a democracy, if no one takes action and no matter how much you complain, nothing will change until people take action. If not it can turn into a dictatorship.

Th concept of... was difficult

The Magna Carta

We really enjoyed ...

The group activities because we were able to express our ideas, and the homemade cookies that Ashlynn generously made for us.

Thank You Ashlynn And Her Mr.Guilfoile

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1. Our new understanding.

We learned that citizen help government but they won't step forward for themselves.

2. The concept of ...... is difficult to understand

When we looked at that pyramid all of the percentage added up to 150% and it didn't add up to 200% or a 100%.

3. We really enjoyed.

When we went into groups and tried to discover the social problems that is actually happening in real life and about the nursery schools. We also enjoyed how we could have imagined about what the solution for the problem could have been.

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1. Our new understandings were the evolution of seat belts, and comparing it to what the government could've done better.

2. The concept of the Magna Carta was a little difficult to understand.

3. We really enjoyed the pyramid part, because it was very interesting to find out the classes of the United States.

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1. New Understanding

Lei: Laws can have good effects and bad ones.

Yu: I didn't know there was a problem with seat belts and that the government can be sooo not cautious.

2. A Concept Difficult to Understand

Lei / Yu: Why the social status added up to 150% and not 100%.

3. Enjoyed

Lei: I enjoyed that Mr. Guilfoile explained the very hard things about Laws more easily.

Yu: Arguing with Ms.Nani about Hoikuen

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Our new understanding was the evolution of the seat belt.

The concept of the 3 branches of the U.S. Government.

We really enjoyed the group activities because we got to share our ideas.

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Our new understanding was that law makers have unintended consequences.

The concept of the Magna Carta was difficult to understand.

We really enjoyed the group discussion about the nursery home in Setagaya City

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1) Our new understanding were..

- We learned how laws are spread out to one another

- We learned that there are different branches in U.S. society.

- We learned that there are different problems about nursery.

- We also learned that there are events that you can speak out about certain laws

- They don't try to speak out they complain

2) The concept of ... was difficult to understand

- The 3 branches was difficult to understand because usually it takes a lot of times to understand the law and learn meaning of it.

- I don't understand why they complain with out talking calmly so you could say (everything) what you think about it.

3) We really enjoyed...

- We really enjoyed the magna carta because it proves how freedom can be distributed and we like the way how it became a law

- We enjoyed the group activity, talking about the problem in nursery.

- We also enjoyed how we were able to share our ideas to the whole class and it felt like we were protesting

-We also enjoyed how we got to reflect and share about how we could solve such problem with one another, about laws, solutions, and basic add-ons to the law chart, etc.

-We especially enjoyed how we got to see the pyramid chart, because I didn't know that such class exists. I was surprised how the laws are based between each class, like freedom (how much money the get too) and we didn't know that 66 percent of poverty are white...

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1. Our new understandings were...

Our new understandings was the Magna Carta.

2. The concept of... was difficult to understand.

It was difficult to understand the 3 branches.

3. We really enjoyed

We enjoyed the evolution of the seatbelt.

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1. Our new understandings were that laws could have consequences and are easier to change before they're established. From that I learned that you should try to think of all the possibilities that might cause issues and conflict between the people.

2. The concept of the idea that "Laws are found in every level of society" because there aren't laws that we know of in friendship and family, other than like no abuse but that can spread everywhere.

3. Maria really enjoyed the cookies. In addition, she also enjoyed the whiteboard activity where she discussed what should happen with the nursery schools.

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