Last week, we finished our presentation for Language Arts on power and leadership. I learned a lot through the process doing my project, I also learned a lot from others’ presentation.

Jay’s presentation was about power of students. The power of students may be more powerful than the power of a leader. Because the power of every single student is small and you can hardly notice that so you will think it won’t make any influence. But if a hundred of students or a thousand of students getting together, the strength will be unbelievable. It makes some relations with my topic: How does the power of group influence the leader? Normally is the leader leads the group, but if the whole group wants to change something, then the group will influence the leader easily. The reason why the leader can lead a group is the leader is doing something follow the group’s thoughts.

In Taewoong’s presentation, he demonstrated his understanding of the difference between power and leadership— the use of the power.

As a leader, the ways you use the power decide whether your group will follow you or not. So it’s important to a leader to use the power correctly.

Jan’s presentation tell us the inequality of the society, which gives the reason why the students in Jay’s presentation want to start a revolution and it also gives the reason why people notice the power of students hardly. Most people think only the upper class of society can decide the way of society to go, but instead of that the power of small people combine together, it will make a greater influence that individual leader.

All in all, I enjoyed doing my project and reading and listening others’ presentations. And I also leant a lot from others.

For the past few weeks, we were learning about power and leadership. I choose to read the novel The Wave and the biography about Churchill. As I read The Wave, I found an interesting fact. At first the leader started the group and influenced the group, as the group get bigger and the group began to influence the leader, the leader knew it should be stopped but he didn’t because he kind of enjoyed the feeling of being that position. According of that I formulated my research question: “ Will the leader be influenced by the power of groups?” I made a power point and did a presentation to demonstrate my understanding of that. While I was making my power point, I found myself getting into a strange circle, when I was trying to demonstrate how does the power of group influence the leader, I found that its reason is kind of the same as why we follow, we are following as individual, but leader is individual, too, individual can be influenced by the group easily. So I talked about this with Mrs. Taynton, She said I don’t need to have a result, what I need to do is showing the process of thinking. So I made the conclusion using The Wave and Nazi that the leader started The Wave but didn’t control it well, instead of that he was influenced by the group, so it caused disaster, Hitler led and influenced the group but no one in the group was trying to influence him because they didn’t think about what they were doing, that caused disaster, too. But if the group of Nazi think independently and judge what they were doing and try to influence the leader, the disaster maybe can be prevented. Generally I think I did a good job, but the logic of the structure of the power point can be stronger, the cause and result can be more obvious. During doing this, I found it important to keep you main topic in your mind all the time so that you won’t go away from the topic so far and it can also keep your logic clear all the time. And when I was doing presentation, I also have something need to be improved, first of all, I don’t have enough vocabularies to demonstrate my ideas effectively and I was a little bit nervous that I forgot to talk about something I prepared. I need to work on it next time.