Suhani's SAS Blog

Political Cartoon: The Unit We used captioning and labelling in our cartoon because it really helps our message get across, so that people can understand what we are trying to say. We also used symbolism in our cartoon because people are able to understand pictures and words together really well, and symbolism was an easy way for us to get a message across using something small and easy to draw. The message of our political cartoon is that we take things for granted without know where they come from and what it’s doing to our environment. This connects to globalization because in our political cartoon it shows a line of children with no access to their own basic needs going into a factory that says "Globalization". Globalization represents all the major companies in our world. On the other side of the factory shows deforestation and pollution. This connects to globalization because it shows how from one place, the child labourers and other workers work hard and in a more...

During P.E., we had a task to build the tallest tower. We were separated into teams, and I had a really good one, as we had built the tallest tower with the Toobeez plastic tubes and connectors. I think that during this process I was the brainstormer and a little bit of the leader because I was the one who came up with how we should build the tower (I thought about the Burj Khalifa's structure as it is the tallest building in the world). I was a little bit of the leader because I kept everyone on track, and I also directed people on what to do next. We were a very cooperative team as we worked together by using each other's back as  support to reach the higher and taller parts of the building. My teammates thought I was the brainstormer, a little bit of the leader, and the peacemaker. I do agree with this, but I don't think this was my dominant trait. They said that I was the peacekeeper because when everyone was fighting about what to do, I told everyone to calm down and t...