Essay On The Storming Stage

In the forming stage, all five students are sitting and waiting quietly for the principle to come in to explain the rules. Meanwhile, no one is talking to each other or making much eye contact. Interestingly, when John walks into detention, he automatically makes Brian move, which is the first example of him trying to be the dominator. After the principle explains the rules and assigning them to write an essay on who they think they are, the group quickly moves to the storming stage where conflicts begin to unfold. For starters, no group members are motivated to write the essay especially John who starts to pick on Claire by saying how he bets that she is a virgin and starts interrogating her by asking her if she ever kissed a boy and so forth. From there, he starts asking even more inappropriate questions. That is when Andrew …show more content…
An example of this was when the group decided to cover for John when he snuck back in the library after he was locked up in the principle’s office for bad behaviour. John ended up having to hide under table, but accidently bangs his head when the principle came in to question the group. As a group, they started coughing to cover up the noise made when John bumped his head against the table. It is interesting how the group worked together to protect John since at the beginning stage, everyone despised him. The adjourning stage is part of the ending stage where the group begins to part ways. Before doing so, they collectively decide that Brian would write the essay for their group since he is the smartest. As a result, Brian had taken the role as a recorder where he had incorporated each group member in the essay in response to the question: “who do you think you are?” The group left detention happy and from sharing their life stories. Some changes did occur with the group members especially with Allison and