Is our class a community?

This obviously is not our class. Photo courtesy: http://www.smithclass.org/proj/Monsters/2008/intros08/BlacksClassSept.jpg

I would not consider our English 1101 class a community. There may have been certain things that united the class as a group of people, but there was nothing really there that would make the class a community. One could say that several pockets of communities formed within the class. The groups that were assigned for the final project could each be considered a community more so than the entire class. We were all given the task of working together in order to get the job done. Frequent group meetings allowed the members of the group to get to know each other better, thus making it seem as if we had grown into a small community for the sake of this assignment. I'm sure that the other groups would feel the same way as our group did in regards to them developing into small communities. There was interaction between almost all of the students in our class, unfortunately, as stated before; there was not enough interaction to make the class into a community. The class was not trying to reach a common goal and after the class period was over each day, we would all disband, thus meaning we were not a true community.