Kid
Nation
In
watching selected episodes of the TV. Show Kid Nation, you will be
expected to be able to answer the following question:
Guiding
Statement: Our actions affect everyone around us.
Using
information and ideas from what you learned while watching the show,
and your own personal experiences, reflect and respond to the
question:
Background
(promotional material for the show)
RETELL:
40 children, 40 days, no
adults. Can they do it? Can they build a better world than grown-ups?
KID
NATION is a reality-based
series in which 40 kids will have 40 days to build a new world…in
a ghost town that died in the 19th Century. These kids, ages 8-15,
will spend more than a month without their parents or modern comforts
in Bonanza City, New Mexico, attempting to do what their forefathers
could not: build a town that works.
They
will cook their own meals, clean their own outhouses, haul their own
water and even run their own businesses, including the old town
saloon (root beer only). They'll also create a real government: four
kid leaders who will guide the kids through their adventure, pass
laws and set bedtimes.
Through
it all, they'll cope with regular childhood emotions and situations:
homesickness, peer pressure and the urge to break every rule they've
ever known.
At
the end of each episode, all 40 kids will gather at an old fashioned
Town Hall meeting where they will debate the issues facing Bonanza
City. They'll show wisdom beyond their years and the unflinching
candor that only kids can exhibit.
There
are no eliminations on KID NATION. You only go home if you want to.
And in every Town Hall meeting, kids may raise their hands and leave.
Will they stick it out? In the end, will these kids prove to adults
everywhere--and to their own parents--that they have the vision to
build a better world than the pioneers who came before them? Just as
importantly, will they come together as a cohesive unit, or will they
abandon all responsibility and succumb to the childhood temptations
that lead to round-the-clock chaos?
From
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/kid_nation/about.shtml
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