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Culturama 2

LO 4 Working collaboratively with others

LO 5 showing perseverance and commitment

Culturama now has ended and as i reflect on the experience i recognise that this culturama is largely different from the past years due to COVID 19. There were many measures to be taken into consideration. But due to this rare pandemic, I feel that we were able to work much more collaboratively. Everyone took care of each other and making sure we are all following the rules.

At the same time, due to strict measures a lot of us were stressed. But everyone worked well and showed their perseverance and commitment throughout the period. This perhaps was because everyone had passion for the dance and everyone encouraged each other to get through this as a group. In a lot of sense these 2 learning outcomes are related to each other.

Link to evidence: video

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Culturama ’20 #1

LO1 Identify your own strength and area for development

LO 2 Demonstrate that challenge has been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

This year in culturama, i have decided to audition for Kenya. This is my 4th and last year of culturama and I am glad i got into my first choice. I really wanted to join Kenya because it is an african traditional dance with upbeat which interested me when I watched the audition video. This is a little of a challenge because I am asian and i have never danced African dance before. For the past 3 years i did Japan, Korea and Korea again. Although I think that I am a dancer with a lot of experience, I am only experienced and certain type of dance. This experience will allow me to develop a new type of dance. i am looking forward to expand my dance skills into new area and expose myself to something new for my last year of culturama.

Here is a link to a short video of one of my practices

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Continuation of CAS during corona outbreak

LO 7: Recognise and consider the ethics of choices and actions

Due to corona outbreak, school has been closed for a month now and will continue so till June. Therefore, a lot of my activities such as circus training and season 4 sports have been cancelled. For me CAS activities are one of the things that helps me keep myself healthy and fit. Since they are unable to go on, while the remote learning, I have started to initiate my own activity to keep myself fit during this period.

One of the things I do is cycling along the coast everyday. It has always been one of my favourite thing to do in my pastime but never really had time for it. I’m back at it again so I am very happy about it. I do around 10 to 20 km per day of cycling. One thing I started to do is running. I was never really interested in running because I had this feeling that it is too tiring for me. But in order to keep my stamina, I started off with 5km run around 3 times a week. It is something I enjoy now. I am glad that even though unexpected outbreak occurred, i am able to continue to do something to keep myself engaged to CAS experience. CAS has helped me shape my choices and action I make through this period.

Encouraging my brother to cycle as well:
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Patrick Chappatte

Today we analysed one of Patrick Chappatte, a cartoonist’s cartoon on climate change.

He is a cartoonist who draws cartoon about social justice (he has a liberal view)

Cartoon as a medium

  • communicate idea very quickly
  • humorous
  • has immediacy
  • finding balance between humour and offense
  • challenges an idea

Key word i could use

  • Reification: Express human as non human things such as animals in a way to negatively mock their being (way of promoting hate)


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Dance showcase #3

LO 1: Identifying own strengths and develop areas for personal growth

Dance showcase has now ended. It was a lot of difficult time, and it has been very challenging for me the past few months. Despite having a lot of ups and downs, in the end me and ami (my dance leader partner) were able to create a great piece. Through this, we learned that compromising is one of the most important thing. We cannot put all our ideas into our piece and it was very important to select who’s idea was better. Another thing is communicating. We lacked communication to our dancers despite our effort, and we caused some problem in the end due to lack of communication. When leading a large group of people, I realised that constant communication is a must. Although we made a lot of mistakes at times through this journey, I think I was able to grow as a leader. Now, leading a group of people has become one of my strength even thought before it used to be more of a challenge. I would like to continue to grow as a leader.

Below  are  the  photos  from  the  show:

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IO outline – Mrs darwin and Cemetery of women

 

Global Issue

Culture, Identity and Community

Focus Question or Topic

Representation of women within these two texts

Texts Chosen (screenshot of cartoon and name of poem)

Poem: Mrs Darwin

Cartoon: 
Notes for the Oral

Introduction (include context) to both texts and bodies of work by each author

I would like to explore ‘Mrs Darwin’ by carol Anne Duffy and ‘Cemetery of women’ by Lisa Donnelly. ‘Mrs Darwin’ is a poem written by Carol Anne Duffy is an extract from a poetry collection called “The World’s Wife”. A lot of her poem presents the western patriarchal society from the women’s point of view. One of which is ‘Mrs Darwin’ which focuses on the representation of the identity of women, written in a short diary form from the perspective of Mrs Darwin who is a wife of a scientist that discovered the theory of evolution. 

Lisa Donnelly is a cartoonist whose body of work consists of simple line drawings, some short dialogue and makes a point about the patriarchal society through humour. ‘Cemetery of Women’ is one of her cartoons that puts its emphasis on the same theme as the poetry ‘Mrs Darwin’. The way in which the women are portrayed is by their role in the society rather than as individuals. 

  • Talk about 2 texts
  • In the intro talk about their style and characteristics (i won’t go over the details here)
  • They have common themes

Text 1: Thesis overview in relation to focus

This poem portrays Mrs Darwin’s frustration in the difference in ways in which women and men are recognised and identified. 
Text 1: 3 Main compositional/textual features

  •   The title: ‘Mrs Darwin’
    • She is defined through her husband’s last name rather than her own
    • Suggests how she is under husband’s control
    • Does not have her own identity
  •    The insult she makes towards her husband: also presenting the issue
    • She is making a scientific point, but also insulting her husband by comparing him to a chimpanzee
  • Diary form
    • It may mean that women usually oppressed by the societal norms and that they cannot express their feelings
    • Diary is a form where she can express her frustration

Text 2: Thesis overview in relation to focus

This cartoon portrays how afterdeath, women are only recognised and remembered by their role as a wife and mother, rather than by their individuality. Their identity is being taken over by their role in society and that is portrayed here. 
Text 2: 3 Main compositional/textual features

  •  “Whats her name: A good wife” short mementoes
    • This can be likened to ‘Mrs Darwin’, how the woman is recognised as one that serves the husband and fulfills her duty as a wife rather than her herself. 
  •    The graveyards are packed very tightly and possibly not maintenanced very well
    • Women are not prioritised, respected and unimportant

Concluding point (link both texts) in relation to focus

This reinforces the social stereotype of women as housewives, who serves men. Both Lisa Donnelly and Carol Ann Duffy draw attention to this social idea, while using humour and insult to reduce the severity of the claim. 

 

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IO outline – Mrs darwin and Cemetery of women

 

Global Issue

Culture, Identity and Community

Focus Question or Topic

Representation of women within these two texts

Texts Chosen (screenshot of cartoon and name of poem)

Poem: Mrs Darwin

Cartoon: 
Notes for the Oral

Introduction (include context) to both texts and bodies of work by each author

I would like to explore ‘Mrs Darwin’ by carol Anne Duffy and ‘Cemetery of women’ by Lisa Donnelly. ‘Mrs Darwin’ is a poem written by Carol Anne Duffy is an extract from a poetry collection called “The World’s Wife”. A lot of her poem presents the western patriarchal society from the women’s point of view. One of which is ‘Mrs Darwin’ which focuses on the representation of the identity of women, written in a short diary form from the perspective of Mrs Darwin who is a wife of a scientist that discovered the theory of evolution. 

Lisa Donnelly is a cartoonist whose body of work consists of simple line drawings, some short dialogue and makes a point about the patriarchal society through humour. ‘Cemetery of Women’ is one of her cartoons that puts its emphasis on the same theme as the poetry ‘Mrs Darwin’. The way in which the women are portrayed is by their role in the society rather than as individuals. 

  • Talk about 2 texts
  • In the intro talk about their style and characteristics (i won’t go over the details here)
  • They have common themes

Text 1: Thesis overview in relation to focus

This poem portrays Mrs Darwin’s frustration in the difference in ways in which women and men are recognised and identified. 
Text 1: 3 Main compositional/textual features

  •   The title: ‘Mrs Darwin’
    • She is defined through her husband’s last name rather than her own
    • Suggests how she is under husband’s control
    • Does not have her own identity
  •    The insult she makes towards her husband: also presenting the issue
    • She is making a scientific point, but also insulting her husband by comparing him to a chimpanzee
  • Diary form
    • It may mean that women usually oppressed by the societal norms and that they cannot express their feelings
    • Diary is a form where she can express her frustration

Text 2: Thesis overview in relation to focus

This cartoon portrays how afterdeath, women are only recognised and remembered by their role as a wife and mother, rather than by their individuality. Their identity is being taken over by their role in society and that is portrayed here. 
Text 2: 3 Main compositional/textual features

  •  “Whats her name: A good wife” short mementoes
    • This can be likened to ‘Mrs Darwin’, how the woman is recognised as one that serves the husband and fulfills her duty as a wife rather than her herself. 
  •    The graveyards are packed very tightly and possibly not maintenanced very well
    • Women are not prioritised, respected and unimportant

Concluding point (link both texts) in relation to focus

This reinforces the social stereotype of women as housewives, who serves men. Both Lisa Donnelly and Carol Ann Duffy draw attention to this social idea, while using humour and insult to reduce the severity of the claim.