Reflections

FINAL EVALUATION:

Q#1)

• Space jump- This is a setting game, there is usually four or five players, one player goes out and acts a scene, then the judge or teacher says “Spacejump!” and the next person goes in with another scene. When all players are in the scene, the judge/teacher says “Spacejump!” again and the last person who was in goes out until no one is left but the first person.
• Shopkeeper- This is a game where someone goes into a “shop” and pretends their is a unrealistic problem with a normal item
• Park Bench- This is my FAVORITE game to play. There are 2 chairs, there is a normal person in one and the other is empty. One person comes in and acts out a unrealistic bizarre character and the normal person must react to it then leave.
• Party- There is one host and 2-3 guests. The host has to answer the “door” in which the guests must act out unrealistic bizarre characters and eventually the party ends.

Q#2) I think my most succesful performance is actually my wizard one. I had a book with me so I used that as a prop, I said that someone had come to me that they had a problem, then I “accidentally” uttered the Harry Potter spell to kill someone. I thought this was quite funny.

Q#3) I thought we did fine as a team, I would actually get WS and YH to actually come up with their OWN ideas. They tried their hardest with the ideas though and did really good with them, and sometimes they did it with their own little twists. We also rarely argued and worked together in the scenes really good

Q#4) I would improve on our bizarre-ness to do it better. The only idea that was bizarre was the sleeping beauty one. Which of course was mine (teehee).

Q#5) Don’t be afraid to take risks, sometimes they work out really well. If you take chances it might just turn out really well. I would use it when for example, I had to do a presentation and I wasn’t sure whether to go first, I’ll remember the risks that I took in drama and how well some of them turned out, and take a risk to go first. Also when I’m an adult and I’m a business woman I’m doing a presentation to my fellow business people, I might need to take a risk for a project or development, and I’ll remember this and do it.

Jan 19

Research the following questions with regards to the chosen issue of 'Animal cruelty'

What types of animal cruelty are there?
There are many types of animal cruelty and a lot of different views of what that is, for example, I think that eating meat and fish is animal cruelty, but my mother thinks that it is for nutrition and that God made the animals for us to eat, and that is why she WON’T let me become a vegetarian. There are ones that a majority of the world thinks are horrible though, such as using fur for clothes and experimental usage.
Which animals are particularly at risk?
There are 10796 endangered species, but the priority species are the tiger, gorilla, giant panda, rhino, whales & dolphin and the marine turtles
INFO ABOUT THE TIGERS

Tigers feed mostly on deer, wild boar, wild cattle and even young rhinos and elephants. They are excellent hunters and prefer to ambush their prey. They use their body size and strength to overpower and knock over their prey causing loss of balance. The tiger then bites the neck and does not let go until the prey dies. Tigers are also great swimmers and are known to kill prey in the water while swimming. Tigers can leap as high as 5 meters and as far as 10 meters, making them one of the highest-jumping mammals in the world. They prefer to live solitary lives and are very aggressive when it comes to territory. The male marks its territory by spraying trees with its urine. Females give birth to about 3 or 4 cubs which remain dependent on their mother for 18 months. However, they may stay with their mother for another 2.5 years.
There are nine subspecies of the tiger and three of them are extinct. The surviving subspecies are the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, the Indochinese tiger or Corbett's tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, the Malayian Tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), found in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, the Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatran), found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the Siberian Tiger (also known as the Amur, Manchurian tiger, or North China tiger) (Panthera tigris altaica), found only in Siberia, and the South China tiger (also known as the Amoy or Xiamen tiger) (Panthera tigris amoyensis), which may be extinct and is only found in South China.
The main cause of deline is poaching and loss of habitat due to human population expansion and activities such as logging. Tigers are often killed illegally for their fur or their bones which are used in Chinese medicine. Also tiger populations were nearly wiped out up until the 1930s due to hunting for sport. The tiger is now legally protected and there are many conservation organizations dedicated to the preservation of this species.
Tigers feed mostly on deer, wild boar, wild cattle and even young rhinos and elephants. They are excellent hunters and prefer to ambush their prey. They use their body size and strength to overpower and knock over their prey causing loss of balance. The tiger then bites the neck and does not let go until the prey dies. Tigers are also great swimmers and are known to kill prey in the water while swimming. Tigers can leap as high as 5 meters and as far as 10 meters, making them one of the highest-jumping mammals in the world. They prefer to live solitary lives and are very aggressive when it comes to territory. The male marks its territory by spraying trees with its urine. Females give birth to about 3 or 4 cubs which remain dependent on their mother for 18 months. However, they may stay with their mother for another 2.5 years.
There are nine subspecies of the tiger and three of them are extinct. The surviving subspecies are the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, the Indochinese tiger or Corbett's tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, the Malayian Tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), found in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, the Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatran), found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the Siberian Tiger (also known as the Amur, Manchurian tiger, or North China tiger) (Panthera tigris altaica), found only in Siberia, and the South China tiger (also known as the Amoy or Xiamen tiger) (Panthera tigris amoyensis), which may be extinct and is only found in South China.
The main cause of deline is poaching and loss of habitat due to human population expansion and activities such as logging. Tigers are often killed illegally for their fur or their bones which are used in Chinese medicine. Also tiger populations were nearly wiped out up until the 1930s due to hunting for sport. The tiger is now legally protected and there are many conservation organizations dedicated to the preservation of this species.
The main cause of deline is poaching and loss of habitat due to human population expansion and activities such as logging. Tigers are often killed illegally for their fur or their bones which are used in Chinese medicine. Also tiger populations were nearly wiped out up until the 1930s due to hunting for sport. The tiger is now legally protected and there are many conservation organizations dedicated to the preservation of this species.
The main cause of deline is poaching and loss of habitat due to human population expansion and activities such as logging. Tigers are often killed illegally for their fur or their bones which are used in Chinese medicine. Also tiger populations were nearly wiped out up until the 1930s due to hunting for sport. The tiger is now legally protected and there are many conservation organizations dedicated to the preservation of this species.
There are nine subspecies of the tiger and three of them are extinct. The surviving subspecies are the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, the Indochinese tiger or Corbett's tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, the Malayian Tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), found in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, the Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatran), found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, the Siberian Tiger (also known as the Amur, Manchurian tiger, or North China tiger) (Panthera tigris altaica), found only in Siberia, and the South China tiger (also known as the Amoy or Xiamen tiger) (Panthera tigris amoyensis), which may be extinct and is only found in South China.
Who commits cruelty against animals and why do they do it?
Doctors often commit anima cruelty for their medicines and remedies, scientists use animals for experiments, chefs for food, average person for a pet.
FOCUS GROUP: Research at least 5 extra facts about your chosen animal ( Why it is endangered?what happens to it? What are the solutions etc)
The tiger is the most powerful living cat species on the earth and the largest and heaviest living of the cats in the world. Physical traits of the tiger vary according to subspecies, but generally male tigers can weigh between 400 and 700 lb and females between 260 and 400 lb. The males can reach 8 or 9 feet in length and the females between 7 and 9 feet. Tigers generally have brown or black stripes with orange fur, with the exception of the white tiger (which is not a subspecies of tiger, but a Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) with low skin pigmentation). Like finger-prints are unique to humans, tiger stripes are unique to tigers and can be used to identify individuals.
the south china tiger is one of the most endangered species
The South China tiger population was estimated to number 4,000 individuals in the early 1950s.
Approximately 3,000 tigers were killed over 30 years as the subspecies was officially hunted as a pest. The Chinese government banned hunting in 1979, but by 1996 the population was estimated to be just 30-80 individuals.
The subspecies has not been sighted in the wild for more than 25 years, and is believed by many scientists to be “functionally extinct”.
A few individuals may remain in the moist forests of southeast China, but the wild population is not thought to be viable.
I used the websites below to help me
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/tigers/about_tigers/south_china_tiger/
http://earthsendangered.com/index.asp