Global Citizens
Learning Intention:
To understand that being a Global Citizen means that you are aware of global issues and recognise that your decisions can influence the world that we live in.
Questions to respond to:
1. Why do you think the cartoon is called ‘A Greenhouse Nightmare’?
2. The cartoonist uses stereotypes. How does the cartoonist represent people living in wealthy, developed countries and those living in poor, developing countries? List the possessions shown in both households.
3. In your own words what does the cartoon say about ‘global citizenship’?
4. What do you think the main message of the cartoon is and why?
5. How can the decision of one household or nation impact the lives of people in another nation?
My Identity
We are a diverse community of learners. Our classroom community is made up of individual students, each of whom brings a unique personal cultural experience to our classroom community.
We would like to share our cultural identities in the hopes of better understand one another. Please view the comments below to learn more about the students of 6SC 2014. Feel free to leave your own cultural story. The story you share may draw on your national/international identity or your family identity.
(Answer the following questions as a blog response, aim to have your response written as two separate paragraphs within your post.)
1. What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique cultural experience?
2. Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
an Italian tradition is filled with festivals celebrating saints, holidays and important events in Italian history. In Venice they celebrate Carnivale di Venezia, a two-week party in early spring. It is marked by parties, parades, live performances of music and, most famously, masquerade balls. Masks are worn throughout Carnivale, ranging from simple half-face masks to elaborate full-face masks called bauta. Although family-friendly events are part of the celebration, the masks and the party atmosphere give Carnivale a reputation as a place where “anything goes.” christmas is a celebration that reflects my values because Christmas is about family and giving
What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique cultural experience?
Eid is one of my cultural traditions when you fast for about 20 – 30 days.
Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
We have a festival were we go to a place and we eat food and do other stuff. Everyone has to cook for the festival.
1. What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique cultural experience?
An example of a traditional part of my culture is the traditions were we celebrate on the 25th of March. When the Greeks gained freedom from the turkey for 400 years we call it NO day or in Greek Όχι day.
2. Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
A celebration that we celebrate is Greek Easter were you dye eggs red and put a design on it. With this tradition the egg represses life. On the day of Easter we crack the eggs and whoever till has their egg uncracked is the winner.
Thanks for reading.
Dear fellow bloggers I’m JW,
1. What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique cultural experience?
An example of a tradition that is a part of my unique cultural experience is celebrating Chinese New Year. When we celebrate Chinese New Year there is a lot of food and there is a lion dance in the city and we believe that if we catch the food the lion throws you get good luck for the whole year.
2. Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
On the Chinese New Year day adults and older relatives give children a red packet and inside the red packet is money for the child. When the relative gives the red packet they say something to them that means good luck and the child must say thank you and good luck back to them as well.
I hope you have enjoyed my post and I would love to hear what your unique tradition you celebrate.
Dear fellow bloggers I’m AH2,
1. What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique cultural experience?
An example of a tradition that is part of my unique culture is celebrating Halloween sometimes because I’m a half American.
2. Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
Halloween is a special night where some family’s go around the neighbourhood [to people’s front door’s] and say “Trick or treat” and you need to give them a small something in terms of lollies like a couple of lollies.
Question. What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique culture?
1. An example of a Greek tradition is a name day. A name day is a celebration sort of like a birthday. Every day is someone name day to have a name day you need to have a saint named after you in Greek Church. In Greek culture a name day is more important than a birthday. My name day is one the 6th of December.
Question. Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your value?
A celebration is Greece is that when people get married the pin lots of money on the husband’s top.
Hello 6SC and fellow people,
This is my reply for the 2 questions:
1. What is an example of a tradition that is a part of your unique cultural experience?
An example of my unique cultural tradition is Apokries. It is a Greek festival, which is when you wear masks and costumes and PARTY! It is 40 days before Greek Easter and you fast for 40 days, but for the first 3 Sundays you can eat meat. Fun-fact is that ApoKRIES has the word KPIES which means meat so that adds up.
2. Is there a celebration or a custom event that reflects your values?
When there is Greek Easter we dye eggs red and sometimes put a design on it. Whoever in the end has there egg not cracked is the winner and it represents my values because I have won several times and my grandma has told me something about the egg cracking is that it means life
Thank-you
Hey bloggers I’m MS,
1: What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique culture?
An example of my tradition is a festival called Holi and Diwali and each of them have their own unique idea. Holi is the festival of colour and Diwali is the festival of light.
2: Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
Yes because Holi is the colour festival we Indians usually wear a white shirt and play the colour game where we smear everybody with powdered colour and water bombs
Dear follow Bloggers I’m SH2,
1. What is an example of a tradition that is a part of your cultural experience?
Well we don’t have any traditions, we like to eat Biltong and sometimes we make like everything out of beads, even elephant saddles and gloves for their tusks.
2. Is there a celebration that reflects on your values?
No, because I live in Australia now, I don’t live in South Africa and I’ve been in Australia for over half my life. The only thing that would come close to a celebration would be Christmas, my Birthday, Easter and Halloween.
HELLO FELLOW BLOGGERS,
1. What is an example of a tradition that is part of your unique cultural experience?
An example of a tradition that is part of my culture is ANZAC day. ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps. A tradition of ANZAC day is ANZAC cookies. They have oats, flour and honey in them. ANZAC day is celebrated on the 25th of April. We celebrate it because we honour the men and women who fought in war.
2. Is there a celebration or a custom that reflects your values?
1. What is an example of a tradition that is unique to your culture?
Dear 6SC, I come from Lebanon and a unique tradition there is mainly food. Food is used a lot in Lebanon. We use it for the common reasons like family gatherings and weddings. We also shower guests who visit our home. Lebanese cuisine is amazing. One main food is zucchini with rice and minced meat. There is a vegetarian version and it is practically the same except without the minced meat. The vegetarian version is usually made during the fasting period or if you have no meat.
A tradition that is part of my cultural experience is fasting it is when you can’t eat anything
from an animal or made by an animal so u can’t have any dairy, meat or eggs so we would have to eat vegetarian food like fake meat or soy milk so you are basically vegetarian for as long as it goes sometimes it’s 40 days and sometimes it’s a week.
1. Why do you think the cartoon is called ‘A Greenhouse Nightmare’?
The people who have the big house are wasting all the electricity so the poor people do not have any.”
2. The cartoonist uses stereotypes. How does the cartoonist represent people living in wealthy, developed countries and those living in poor, developing countries? List the possessions shown in both households.
3.
The cartoonist represents wealthy people by giving them big house and lots of e electrical appliances and the poor people have a small hut.
4. In your own words what does the cartoon say about ‘global citizenship’?
3. In my own words I think the cartoon is not being a global citizen because the wealthy people are not accepting the poor people
4. What do you think the main message of the cartoon is and why?
4. The main message of this cartoon is to be equal and accept other people
5. How can the decision of one household or nation impact the lives of people in another nation?
5. It affects other people because they have running water and other people do not have anything.
1. Why do you think the cartoon is called ‘A Greenhouse Nightmare’?
We think it’s called the Greenhouse nightmare because they are contributing to the greenhouse affect so it is not fair on the other people.
2. The cartoonist uses stereotypes. How does the cartoonist represent people living in wealthy, developed countries and those living in poor, developing countries? List the possessions shown in both households.
The possessions that are shown are the poor have straw houses, bicycle, don’t have T.V’s, small houses and they no electronics and the wealthy people have everything that the poor people don’t have.
3. In your own words what does the cartoon say about ‘global citizenship’?
What the cartoon says about global citizens is that people all over the globe are not all equal so there are people that are poor, people that have money for a lot of thing but not to waste and there are people that have money to use on everything and anything.
4. What do you think the main message of the cartoon is and why?
The main message is that the people that live in the big house are selfish because they are not sharing the things that they have more than one of.
5. How can the decision of one household or nation impact the lives of people in another nation.?
Born: Suzanne Marie Collins, August 10, 1962 age 52, Hartford, Connecticut
Occupation: Television scriptwriter, novelist
Nationality: American
Education: Indiana University (B.A.) New York University (M.F.A.)
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Children’s Literature, Young-adult Fiction
Notable works: The Hunger Games trilogy, the underhand Chronicles, hunger games 2 and 3
1. Collins was born on August 10, 1962, to a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Vietnam War. As the daughter of a military officer, she and her family were constantly moving. She spent her childhood in the eastern U.S. Collins graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham in 1980 as a Theater Arts major. She graduated from Indiana University in 1985 with a double major in theater and telecommunications. In 1989, Collins earned her M.F.A. in dramatic writing from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
2. The author uses emotive and strong language/descriptive and more interesting ways about the movie and book.
2.I have read the hunger games 1 and 2 I enjoyed reading 1 because the movie and the book together was enjoying then the hunger games 2.
3. I like the insensitive and fun in the movie or imagination while you’re reading the book also liked the moment went they had to risk their life.
4. I would like to ask how she thought about the movie and book, I also want to ask did enjoy the book or the movie, why? Or Why not?
Jason Mott, 35years old, lives in south-eastern North Carolina, born in The United States, American.
Jason Mott mystry type of books that make people wonder. My favourite book by this author is ‘The Returned’ because I understand it more because of the T.V. series that came on a couple of months ago. I like mystry type books because it makes me wonder how it happened. If I could meet this author I would ask them “what made you write ‘The Returned’ and was it based on a real story?” and could you write more books like this and have series for them?”