Overview: In this exercise, you need to combine your creativity and what you’ve read in this chapter. Since a lot can be learned from our past, we are going to do just that.
What you need: Paper/pen/pencil or computer, depending on how you want
to give in the report; time to think!
Optional: Internet, books, or people as resources to add to the information
in the textbook.
The assignment:
1. Go back to the part of the chapter on eras of the American Home’s
evolution.
2. Pick the one you’re most interested in – pre-modern, modern or post-modern.
3. Read up about that era, or ask people about it. (Remember last chapter?
Your grandparents as resources? Well, here’s a chance, perhaps, to use
those resources!!)
4. Imagine yourself in that age and time. Imagine what your name would
be, what your family looks like, how old you are, where you live, etc.
5. Describe a day in your life, in that era, in as much detail as possible.
You can start in the morning, and describe all you do or all that happens,
in a narrative form, or in bullets, or create a story. Have fun doing this!
6. Since we learned that the family might be considered a system, look
through the description, and point out parts of it that support the notion.
For instance, if you wrote about going to work and coming back to a meal,
notice that work is an output on your part that brings in inputs, which
helped prepare your meal.
Report/Interpretation - Write/type up your assignment in this format
in two pages:
1. Era chosen
2. Background information (name, family, economic status, etc.)
3. Description of the day in that era
4. Point out at least 3 instances that support systems theory, or pick
Economic Theory , and explain why
your instances support Economic Theory’s principles
or concepts)