Utopian+Community

Topic: The oneida community

Focus: The oneida cult thaught they were perfect, but they had many flaws.

Reason for choice: I'm reading a book, and it is a very intersting topic.

What's your point? (thesis): The onieda may have thaught they were perfect but were far from it.

What three reasons do you have that will back up your point?

1 Everyone was married to everyone. 2 Everyone looked the same 3 everything belonged to everyone

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it? Everyone was married to everyone. All relationships were matched by a commity who chose the people by the spiritual beleif. People who entered the community who were all ready in a relationship, were split up. People had there own room to prevent relationships from starting.

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it? Everyone looked the same. The kids had to look the same. They all had to have the same hair, possestions (which really didnt belong to them) and birthday. In december all the kids born in a certain year would have there birthday on that day. They would all get the same gift. (In one community, at age 9, every kid would get a bike.) (Also at age 12 the kids would get a job)

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it? Everything belonged to everyone. This law entiteled everything to everyone. But because they were raised up to be very kind, they never thaught about taking what someone already was using. People were assigned a job which helped the community because if they did the work, others would get what he or she made. That would then help them to get what they wanted. Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life? Are lifes are in a way like the onieda community. We work so that others can get what we made and we can get what they made. but we have are own possestions that others cant take. And we can choose are job and look diffrent.

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?