This week in the classroom we performed our first Jigsaw lesson. In this, we each were assigned a chapter in a text and in groups we drew that the chapter was detailing on large sheets of paper. Once we felt as though out chapter was thoroughly detailed we presented the chapter to the class. My chapter was detailing recounts of the struggles of deciding who gets a bed and how doesn’t. A main point of the chapter was the idea of the employees being forced to play God. They were making huge decisions based on small bias aspects such as personal friendliness or believability. Other individuals’ chapters contained aspects such as case study’s and more personal recounts of experiences.

All in all, the Jigsaw activity was beneficial in helping the students to understand and even to teach the material. Some of the other chapters mimicked what mine did but one aspect that a few others spoke about that I hadn’t read previously were the personal recounts of the individuals who needed to utilize the shelter. One group had explained that a woman who stayed in the shelter consistently had feelings of the workers making her feel incompetent or not valued as a person. They would demand that she recognize that she had a mental illness even though she felt as though her sadness and feelings were completely justified for a mentally healthy individual.