The Snake Draft

In dividing the teams for Huck Finn activities, I suggest doing something similar to a snake draft. Although this idea will work if we pick teams (and will be a fairer way of picking teams), I think it is also a good alternative to picking teams.

In a traditional snake draft, the people pick in order from first to fourth. The next round, they pick in reverse order from fourth to first. With this being done, the top person does not get to pick the best out of every four people. It gives a fair chance for the teams to be even. I suggest conducting a snake draft based off of grades in the class at the end of the semester. Mrs. Carnes would then, based off of grade, select the 1st, 8th, 9th, 16th, 17th, and 24th best grades to be on a team. She would then select the 2nd, 7th, 10th, 15th, 18th, and 23rd best grades for a second team. Team three would have the 3rd, 6th, 11th, 14th, 19th, and 22nd grades and the last team would have the 4th, 5th, 12th, 13th, 20th, and 21st best grades. I know this sounds complicated, but I will give an example.

Example: if the grades at the end of the year were the same in highest to lowest as the students names in alphabetical order by last name (so that Harris had the highest grade and I had the lowest grade), the teams would look like this:

Team 1 - Harris Bailey, Lindsey German, Tessa Hammond, Rigg Milner, Macy O'Fallon, Devin Young
Team 2 - Grace Cook, Gabbi Estrada, Camden Howell, Nathan Mills, Kyle Rutherford, Ally Williams
Team 3 - Alex Correa, Travis Eastin, Garrison Hunter, Mitchell McCraney, Brittany Simpson, Joshua Teague
Team 4 - Indigo Crandell, Stephen Davis, Chandler Jackson, Dalton Lambert, Brooke Tate, Hannah Teague

I understand that these specific teams are not fair, but this is not exactly how the grades will line up (or at least I sure hope not). This just gives a detailed example of how this process would go. The pro to this is that no one can blame either the Captains or Mrs. Carnes for choosing unfair teams. The grades will determine the teams in the most fair way possible.

If you have any questions about this method, I would be happy to answer them.