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...

Reverse value is when you have an object on a white or black background and the object is the opposite color of the background. The details on the object are the same color as the background. It's REALLY confusing! The tools I used were ink, fountain pens, pencil, eraser, light table, paint, paintbrushes, and Copic Multiliner Pens. I drew a gymnastics trophy, a donut, a water bottle, my SAS card and a drivers license from a Disneyland ride (Autopia), my wallet, money, scissors, my phone, my headphones, my hand, and a softball. The most challenging part of this assignment was figuring out what to make black and what to make white. Once you figured that out, for white, you had to re-outline things and you had to do a lot of small, fine, details. https://lmpta.wordpress.com/art-docent-program/5th-grade-projects/lines-create-illusions-op-art/ I like this optical illusion art because this person also used a bit of reversed value to make this look like a room. This helped...

The farther away the planet is from the sun, the slower it rotates.

       During this unit, I learned about poverty in my family. I also learned about poverty cycles (focusing on Papua New Guinea) and how micro-financing works. This makes me think that there is so much left to do to make the world a developed place. I am so used to developed places that sometimes I forget how big the world is. I forget that there are places who aren't even close to being as fortunate as me. We learned about social entrepreneurs, KIVA loans, and NGO's. One of the activities I found interesting was interviewing my family . I learned that my family has connections with poverty, and that my family escaped the poverty cycle by getting a good education . This is important because I didn’t think that my family would have any connections with poverty, and it is relevant because I learned new things about poverty, and I know how my grandpa escaped poverty. I’m now inspired to learn more about him because then I will understand so much more and this wil...