Journal #13

The purpose of the Benjamin Franklin Virtues Project was to work as a team, but also to learn about the thirteen virtues that Franklin created.  He created these virtues to help himself become a moral and better person.  Everyone knows that this world needs help in the moral value category.  For this project, we had to implement one virtue for a whole twenty-four hours.  Some people chose virtues that were a challenge while others just picked an easy one.  I give credit to the people who took this seriously and challenged themselves with the implementation because that was the goal of that part of the project.   The next thing we had to do was to analyze Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography from a specific point of view.  To be honest, I did not enjoy taking part in the Benjamin Franklin Virtues Project.  No one did their part, just like every year.  From past years students, I have heard stories about people not doing their share of the project.  I do not understand why we still do this project if there is one or two people doing three other people's portions.  I understand that we do this project to work on teamwork and distributing the project evenly, but when no one in the group decides to participate, it ends up on one person's shoulders.  This person was me in my group.  I had to make three people's videos because they failed to do their portion.  I do not think that I should have done that because it is not my problem.  The people's videos I did got the same grade as I did for the overall video when they did nothing to help.  It is not fair.  The whole project is not fair. The way that this project could be improved would be to be able to evaluate your group members.  This would help because that way the people who did their work should get a better evaluation than someone who did nothing.