Chrismas holiday

The Christmas holiday is coming.

I can't wait to go skiing.

All of my family are waiting. 

Waiting for my brother who is still sleeping.

I believe this vacation will be interesting.

Plan for winter break

Two more days then it will be winter break, I can’t wait for it anymore because this vacation I am going back to Taiwan.

As an international student, going back home is not an easy thing to do. We didn’t like other day students or those people who live in United State can go back their home whenever they want. For us we need to sit on a little seat for 14 hours, think about that, almost half day you will be ask to sit in that small seat with no internet and no place for you to exercise. It might sound very crazy for most of the people, but for the international students this is the only way for us to go back home.

Lots of things I can do when I go back to Taiwan. First thing I’m going to do is eat a lot of foods, because in the United State there only have one Chinese resterant near by Cheshire Academy. If I want to eat Chinese food we can only order from that resterant, but later on we start to get tired on the food at that resterant. However, if I am in Taiwan. I can try any types of Chinese food I want as long I bring enough money with me. Maybe today’s special is spicy Sichuan food, and tomorrow I can have a tradition Taiwan food...etc.

Beside the food, one point that I’m excited about is my friends. When I go back they probably still need to go to school, but I can ask them out during weekend. Friends could be the second most important relationship beside family. During this winter break, I can go visit those friends that already long time no see. I would also like to visit some of my teachers. Every teacher for me are important, because of what they teach me so I would able to come to United State study. I might want to bring some gifts to my teacher, maybe a small model of the “The statue of Liberty” will be nice!

Last but not least, my family. They are the closest people I have in this world. Especially my parents, because they work very hard so that they will able to pay my tuition. As we can know a tuition for an international student is very expensive. It is like 2 to 3 times a normal American student did. This is why I can’t wait to see them, also my brothers. This trip I probably can’t see the oldest brother but I do can see the second one. When I was small he teach me a lot of things that I might face in the future. Such as how to select a college, or what should I do if my credit card happen something...etc.

These probably will be what am I going to do over the winter break. Each plan for me are important and necessary.(Especially the food one!) At here I hope every people can have a safe trip when they back home and enjoy your vacation!

BLACK FRIDAY DISCOUNT

I had done lots of things over the thanksgiving break, one of my favorite things was shopping. As we can know, during the thanksgiving break there are lots of discounts with almost every type of product, such as electricity, clothes, shoes...etc. This mean I can buy a lot of products with very low price, especially on Black Friday. I am not sure what happen on black Friday or where did it came from, but one thing I know about is on that day almost every store will have a huge discount on their product. That day I believe will be a glory day for my wallet.

The day before Black Friday, me and my friends were discuses about the plan for the shopping road, like where should we go first, then we should go there...etc. We were live at a hotel that near to Time Square so it was very convenient for us to shop. After we done for the road, we decide to go bed early because we want to get up at 5:00 in the morning so there won’t be a lot of people in the store.

Finally, the day we waiting had come. Both of us got up on time and ready to go to the first store. It was very chill that day, I remember the temperature was something like - 8 degrees Celsius. Although the whether was very bad, we still walk to the store because nothing can stop us. When we got to the store, I told my friend “WOW! I thought there will be a lot of people over here, but seems like everyone is still sleeping.” He agree with me because there really only have few people were like us who wake up that early to shop. However, that doesn't matter because this mean we can buy things with very low price and no need to wait in line.

I will say Black Friday was the highlight for my thanksgiving break, because there were too many good stuff I want and all of them were in very low price. On that day we first went to Macy’s which was the biggest one in the United State. Then we went to other store that near around Macy’s, such as Zara, Uniqlo, H&M...etc. I did bought a lot of stuff at each story, and everything I bought none of them was over 100 dollars. I remember the biggest discount I got was a trench coat from Zara. The original price for that coat was about 180 dollars, and it have 50% off so it only cost me 90 dollars. Could you imagine that, 90 dollars for that coat was gone. That was incredible huge discount you can got, my parents was also surprise with that huge discount. I think this is maybe why my parents always ask me to bring stuff back from here.

The Black Friday was one of my highlight for my thanksgiving break, and I really enjoy in it. I hope that one day not only United State, every countries can have this kind of day so that people can know what is it feel to have a BLACK FRIDAY DISCOUNT!

Summaries about Mark Kurlansky

The way he wrote his blog is very interesting because I notice that at the beginning of every blog post he use a question to start it. It might be a random question or a question that he have for people. After he ask the question, he will answer the question and tell the reader his opinion about this question. The interesting part is after he answer the question, there will be another question came out from that answer. He will continue the cycle until the end, and he won't tell you the answer about last question. He might leave the answer or unfinished statement for reader to think about. I think this is very interesting and useful technique for people to end their writing. This is what I found form Mark Kurlansky writing.

My Secret Friends! (Final)

Everyday when I go back to my dorm, I can sit on my comfortable chair and enjoy my wonderful free time. During my free time, I like to spend 10 minutes to watch what kind of things are around me. First, on the right side are my hats, they are like two little kids who keeps watching me. From their eyes it looks like they are asking me to bring them out of the room because they do not want to stay in this dark place anymore. Next to my hats is my table lamp. It always being a best helper when I need to work, which help me to illuminate my table when the light is not enough. This will help my short-sightedness avoid to become more terrible. Many different kind of flavor Snapple located under my desk and sit comfortably. These are the main reason where my everyday energy come from. Without them giving me energy, when people see me I probably will be very exhausted and won't able to be a good student in the class for whole day; like a walking dead. My daily necessities standing on the shelf and watching at me all the time. They are like my own personal guards during study hall. Their job is to check whether am I doing my homework properly or not during the study hall. Thanks for what they do so I can finish my homework before light out, and this mean I can go to bed on time and no need to stay up late. Don't forget the big guy - desk, the strongest person I ever see in my room. It can carry tons of books and tool on itself and never say he is tired. I can't imagine how can I do my work without it, it is just like my best work carrier. At the right side of the desk is an old wardrobe. From it outside did seems like stay for long time already, but inside of it heart is acatually a yong boy like us. It like to dress itself up with my clothes when I am not in my room, but I need to say that sometimes it did look good when he dress my clothes. On the other side of the desk is my bed. It is one of my best friends, or I should say my love in my dorm. Whenever I need a rest or feel uncomfortable, it will let me lay on it body and help me to relax. It also take good care on me when I was sick, and this is why I can get rid of flu with short period of time when I get it. Oh! I forgot one of my old friends computer. It is like my second teacher in the school or at dorm. When there is a problem or question that I don’t understand, I can just ask it and it will tell me the answer in 10 seconds. It makes my life become easier and help me to learn new things that I never know before. All of these friends make my life become more interesting and convenient. Everything do their own job and have different effects with my life. Without one of them my life will be not as comfortable as before, and this is why I am so glad to have all of them around me in my dorm whenever I need them!

Top 3 revision

1. Comparison of my Bottle - Sophia. I think it is a really good writing because she did explain in detail about the different between two bottles. I hope she can have more vivid language and maybe reorganize the paragraph so the reader are able to understand which bottle she is talking about.

2. Walk among dream and truth - Leo. I like the way he describe the background. It is just like I'm also in that place when I read his story. Maybe instead of repeat I this word, he can use some transition or other vivd language in his writing. This will defiantly help his writing become better.

3. Somewhere safe - Nina. It is really interesting because she observed under her desk, which no one did it in our class. This is why I'm interesting about her writing, and use more vivid language will help her writing become more interesting and the reader will able to feel confidence about sitting under their desk.

Little world around us

In this world, the life that people have is very short. This is why people have their life very busy, and people want everything be done in short period and complete. Due to this kind of lifestyle, a lot of time people will ignore some thing or some place and even more they will forget about it.

I am a person who didn’t like deail, so I always ignore lots of materials that surround me. My wardrobe would be a good example of it. This is a place that people will go everyday for dressing them up. However, people probably already forget what is it inside look like, but sometimes you might found out inside there might have some suprise you never expect.

My wardrobe is like another world, because whenever I need to find one clothes or pants in there. It is just like seeking for a treasure, which is very difficult. My clothes are like the traps that I can’t touch, and my pants are the vine that try to stop me to go forward.

This is just like a small adventure for me everyday, I will never know what can I found in my wordrobe. I can found what I need for they day, or maybe found some clothes that I already forget in there for long time.

This will also decide whether I will be happy or not for the following up hours. If I can found what I need in short period of time, then I would be happy and being positive to go to class. In the other hand, if I spend twenty minutes to find my sock, I probably will in a bad mood and thinking about where the hack is my sock goes? It seems like is a small thing in my life and nothing important,  but it did have a huge effect on my day.

I enjoy in the process of finding my clothes since I came to United State, before I came I even didn’t have my own wardrobe because I don’t have my own room. This cause me think that wardrobe is nothing special and boring. Then I know I am wrong, because now I realize that it is actually an interesting place. Now it is just become part of my life that I can’t live without.

This is just something small that I want to share with you guys. The purpose is not whether I am happy or not, nor where is my another sock go? The main point is sometimes people should stop and have a rest during their life, maybe have a cup of coffee and enjoy what they have around them will be good.

Just like what I said in front, the life that people have is short. We need to enjoy every moments we have, no matter is it happy or not. This would make your life become better and you might found out that lots of place that you have ignore is such a beautiful or interesting place.

A place that only welcome me! (Revision)

Everyday when I go back to my dorm, I can sit on my comfortable chair and enjoy my wonderful free time. During my free time, I like to spend 10 minutes to watch what are the things around me. First on the right side are my hats, they are like two little kids who keeps watching at me. It is looks like they are asking me to bring them out because they are tired to stay in this dark place in the room. The table lamp is like my best helper for work, who help me to illuminate my table when I need to do my homework. It help me to avoid my short-sightedness become more terrible. There are some Snapple sitting on the bottom of my desk, these are the big reason that my energy come from. Without them giving me energy, I'm probably be very exhausted and won't able to be a good student for whole day. My daily necessities are standing on the shelf, they are like my own personal guards. Their job is to check whether I'm doing my homework or not during the study hall. Thanks for what they do so that I can finish my homework before light out, and I can go to bed on time. Don't forget our friends desk, it is the strongest person I ever see in my room. It can carry tons of books and tool on itself and never move one step. I can't imagine how can I able do all my work without it. At the right side of the desk is an old wardrobe. Don’t think it is old, in it heart is acatually a yong boy like us. It like to dress itself up with my clothes when I am not in my room, but I need to say sometimes it did look good when he dress my clothes. On the other side of the desk is my bed. It is one of my best friends, or I should say my love in my dorm. Whenever I need a rest, it will let me lay on it body and help me to relax. It also take good care on me when I was sick, and this is why I can get rid of cold with short perid of time. Oh! I forgot one of my old friends computer. It is like my second teacher in the school or at dorm. When there is a problem or question that I don’t understand, I can just ask it and it will tell me the answer in 10 seconds. It makes my life become easier and help me to learn new things that I don't know before. All of these friends make my life become more interesting and convenient. Everything do their own job and have different effects on me. Without one of them my life will be not as well as before, and this is why I am so glad to have them to stay with me in my dorm whenever I need them!

Strong vs. Weak

Strong

 

 

There is a place in the world you can not find out, but I know where it is.

 

People can not see them will pass through those buildings.

 

The more worries it absorbs, the darker the water is.

Maybe some day it will be dark as ink, but at that time I will be old.

I never get into the city because these is a kind of magic inside.

 

 

 

 

Weak

 

 

I love this feeling.

 

When I am doing something else, for example playing video games, I always like to choose some characters different with others choose.

On the other side of the lake there is a city built on the hills.

The water in the lake with absorb those worries.

 

People get into there will use all of their efforts to look for happiness.

Hot pot, the most beautiful food in the world!

One of my favorite food that I had over thanksgiving break is hot pot. It was a pot fill with clear soup, and what we need to do is put what we want to eat into the pot. The color of the pot was colorful, because it was fill with different kinds of food. For example, green represent vegetables, red represent every kind of meat, and white represent the noodle...etc. The smell of hot pot was very good, think about the smell of meat, vegetable, and noodle when they cooked in the same time. That smell was like the gift of God, which make people unbelievable. After the smell of hot pot, it was time for the sound. The sound of hot pot is not really special because it was just like boiled water. However, the thing that got boiled was not water, it was the soup in the pot. Especially when you hungry, it was just like the sound of angle. Every thought in your mind will all gone, because the only thing you could think of was the pot in front of you. Last but not least, the taste of the hot pot. I wasn't sure whether people will love the taste of it? For me, the answer will be are you kidding me? Of course I loved it. The taste of it was very great, it was like the food in your mouth was playing a symphony, beautiful and impressive. Now I believe you have some idea about hot pot, but this is not enough. Only try it once in your life, or otherwise you will never know how great it will be!

Is it a ? No, it is a ?

People use their body to feel and learn new things from their body. However, there are lots of poeple who lose part of their body or the ability that they have. This make them become more difficult to learn or to know what kind of thing in front of them. This is why I want to do this activity, I ask one of my friend give me random objects and I need to describe it by only touch it. The first thing in my hand is a little bit strange, because one side of it is very soft, but another side is very hard and a little bit sharp. It is very flexible because I can bend it whatever I want, but it will become its original shape at the end. Then I know what is it, it is a sponge, because one side is soft for soap and another is for brush the bowl. Then I close my eyes again, because second object is coming. Second object is very cold, it seems like made of iron. It is in a long shape and one part of it can turn in 360 degree. At the one side of it is very sharp, just like a small scissors. Then I found out the part that can turn 360 degree can flip upside down, and can be press down. I know what is it now, it is a nail scissor. From this activity I know how blind people feel and how hard is it. If I never saw these objects before I probably won’t able to answer my friend what it is. I hope one day the world could invent a technology that can help those blind people to know what the world actually looks like, because in a world with only dark is somewhere I don’t want to live in.

A secret place that you don't know!

In this world, the life we have is very short. This cause people having a busy life, everything must be fast and complete. Due to this kind of lifestyle, a lot of time people will ignore some thing or some place and forget about it. There are many example in my life, Such as your wardrobe. This is a place that people will go everyday for dressing, however, many people probably already forget what is it inside look like. For me, my wardrobe is just like another world. Everytime when I try to find one clothes or pants is just like seeking for a treasure. My clothes are like the traps that I need to avoid, and my pants are the forest that I need to go over. This is just like a small activity for me everyday, it will also decide whether I will be happer or not for the following up hours. If I can found what I need and in short period of time, I would be happy and being positive to go to class. In the other hand, if I spend twenty minutes to find my another missing sock, I probably will in a bad mood and thinking about where the hack is my sock goes?

No matter what, this is just something small that I want to share with you guys. The purpose is not whether I am happy or not, nor where is my another sock go? The main point is sometimes people should stop for their life, maybe have a cup of coffee and enjoy what they have around them. This would make your life become better and you might found out that lots of place that you have ignore is such a beautiful or interesting place.

A Place That Only Welcome Me

Everyday when I go back to dorm, I can sit on my comfortable chair and enjoy my wonderful free time. My caps are like two kids watching at me and it looks like asking me to bring them out and enjoy the sun. Table lamp is just like my body who help me to illuminate my table when I need to do my homework. Don't forget the Snapple on the floor, all of my energy is come from them. Without them giving me energy, I'm probably will be exhausted for whole day. My daily necessities are standing on the shelf, they are like my personal guard to see whether I'm doing my homework or not during study hall. Don't forget our friend table, it is the strongest person I ever see in the world. It can carry tons of books on its back, and never move one step. At the right side of the table is an old wardrobe, sometimes it like to dress itself up with my clothes when I am not in my room. On the other side of the table is my bed, it might be one of my best friend in CA. Whenever I need a rest, it will let me lay on it body and help me to relax. Oh! I forgot one of my best friend-computer. It is just like my second teacher in the school or at dorm. When there is a problem or question that I don’t understand, I can just ask it and I will know the answer. It make my life become easier. All of these friends make my life become more interesting and convenient, and this is why I am glad to have them around me!

What a Snapple look like?

The Snapple bottle is made of glasses and no color. It have a silver iron gap on top with lots of blue print words on it. When you use your finger to hit it, it will make a "ding ding" sound!

Note:

Silver gap

Have circle shape

Inside is lower than outside(gap)

It is smooth

Have blue word on it 

It is hard 

Like iron

There is a s mark on he side of bottle 

Liquid inside is brown

Cover by paper

Can see through the bottle

No color

Some dot at the bottom

Two straight line on the side and same place but opposite side 

The s sign is also at other side

Around s there is leaves picture

Paper didn't stick perfectly

One side up one side down 

The paper color is similar to the liquid color

Circle at the top of the bottle 

it is cold at the side

Beside dot, there is also 4 and u

No smell 

When you hit it, it will have bright sound

Galileo in Cheshire Academy

Do you know the center of the universe is the sun? People in 1500 believed that the center of the universe was earth but not sun. However, one person stood out aganist the theory that the church published and proved that the center of the universe was sun. That person was called Galileo.

The play of Galileo was talking about how did Galileo first ‘’invent’’ the first telescope in the world. Then how did he used his telescope to discover that the center of the universe wasn’t earth. After that, he tried to tell people the theory that the Church published was not true. Soon, the Church found out that Galileo was doing this, and the Church think this will make them start to losing the power they have. They try to stop what Galileo want to tell, but in the same time, Galileo already know this wouldn’t be an easy fight. He was ready for any challenge that was coming to him.

Now I want to tell something about this play. This is a very interesting play because it was wrote by a German poet who named Bertolt Brecht. He was a very famous person because he had wrote lots of great play. Galileo was just one of them, there were more great play that was wrote by him.

Just like what I said, he was a really great poet, this mean he must doing very well on word. The truth told us it is correct because in the play of Galileo, the word he used were very difficult but also remarkable depth. The reason why I would know that was because I couldn’t understand them. It is because I’m not good at English, but if the audience was an English professor, he probably will think this play was very good.

Beside the language he used in the play, the character that he set up in it was very important to the play. Usually when people go watch a play, they might only have two to three main character and four to five not main character. In this play, instead of small amount of characters, he used almost twenty characters. This make the play become more easy to understand what happen to Galileo and the people around him. It was just like reading the bibliography of Galileo, but more interesting than just reading a book. This was one of the point I like about this play!

Last but not least, I would like to talk about those people who act in the play. This is not about the meaning of Galileo but about the actors. Those actors are like us, Cheshire Academy students, but what they did was not only performed the play. They were performed with their enthusiasm, I could feel it when I was sitting at my seat. It was something can’t be describe, because you must watch it by yourself then you will now what I’m talking about.

All of them were doing a great job, not only memorize all these difficult script, but also know where they should be and when. This was something need to be practice and practice for long time. I really thank those students who bring us such a beautiful play, and thank to Mr.Aronson who direct this wonderful play. 

Have you ever heard Bertolt Brecht ?

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright and theatre practitioner, who born in Augsburg, German Empire.He was a full of dreams person who departed from the accepted conventional norms of illusion in theatrical production and tried new approaches to develop a better understanding of drama. He insisted that the audience view the stage and actors from a realistic and rational perspective and not as the conventional imaginary world. He was just 16 when the World War I started, and he became more disillusioned with the society and started moving towards Marxism and Dadaism. He had studied medicine in university, but he developed a profound interest in literature. He wrote his first play 'Baal' in 1918 which was produced in 1923. His meeting with the novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger in 1919 proved to be a turning point in his life. He worked with him on an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, which greatly inspired his theatrical and dramaturgical development. He was a part of Erwin Piscator's first company which was dedicated to the development of its "epic, political, confrontational, documentary theatre." He also collaborated with Kurt Weill and was influenced by Chinese theatre. He, along with his wife, founded the theatre company 'Berliner Ensemble' during the post war years.

life of Galileo~

Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist, writer and philosopher. He had a great contribution in scientific revolution. In 1583, he got admitted in famous University of Pisa.

He supported the Aristotelian theory and got a good position in the most powerful scientific authority powered by the Roman Catholic Church. He left the university in 1585. Then he continued study mathematics. And after that he wrote a book named “The Little Balance” describing his two decade study on objects in motion.

For this book, he became a bit famous and he became a teacher in the University of Pisa in 1589. In 1609 he modified a telescope to observe the sky. Then he began to support the Copernican theory that the sun is the center and the earth is circling the sun, which offensive to Aristotelian an Roman Catholic Church theories.

In 1613 he told his student the similarity between Bible and Copernican theory.

The church knew it and made the book public. Then the church announced the Copernican theory illegal. Galileo was ruled not to teach of publish the Copernican theory about the earth and stayed silent for 7 year. Cardinal Maffeo Barberini was selected as the Pope Urban VIII, who was a good friend of Galileo. He encouraged Galileo to continue his study, but also told him not to write anything supporting Copernican theory.

Letter for excuse my homework

Ms.Guarino

I'm so sorry that I missed my homework today because this is what happened on my weekend.

After the school was done on Friday, I went to the community service for my afternoon activity until 5p.m.

I ran  to the dinning hall  because I needed to eat my dinner.

After dinner, I went to the gym and played lacrosse with my friends until 10:30.

I checked in with my dorm parent at 11:00, then I took a shower and went to bed.

Next day, I woke up and went to the lacrosse practice that we had on turf.

Then I went to the brunch and help the lights of hope until 4:00 in the afternoon.

I was so tired so I decided to take a nap.

After I woke up, it was already 7:00.

Then I went to Mr.B with my friends to celebrate one of my friend birthday.

We went back dorm at 9:00.

After that, I checked the portal to make sure how much homework I had for Monday, but I didn't start yet.

It was Sunday, I woke up at 11:00 because I did lots of works on Saturday.

After had my brunch, I went to the liberery to do a project with my classmates.

We worked so hard For a long time.

Finally, we finished the project at 5:30 in the afternoon.

We decided to go to the dinning hall to have  dinner.

We had lots of fun over there, and when I looked at the time, it was already 6:30.

I went back to the dorm and took a shower to get ready for the study hall.

When it was 7:30, the whole dorm was very quite because the study hall had started.

Everything looked so nice and perfect, but...

The tragedy happen.

I couldn't turn on my computer because it was broken.

When I tried to use my iPad to do my homework, it couldn't  connect to the Internet.

Finally, I turn on my computer, but I couldnt log into the portal because my friend made my account got locked.

After I knew that, I went upstairs as fast as possible to Zen's room and asked him what the writing homework was.

He said" It is an activity that need to be print out."

I asked him "Did you print it out?"

He said "yes I did, i printed it out before the school liberary printer broke. That means, if you want to print it out, it is impossible."

In that time, my feeling was like fall from heaven into hell.

Not because my computer broke, school Internet suck, and the school printer also suck.

It is because I couldn't do my homework!

This is why I'm was not able to do my homework over the weekend, so could I have one more day to finish it?

I hope, but can I?

When I came back to Cheshire Academy, I set several goals to challenge myself. They are improve my English skill, having more friends, and improve my writing skill. These all seem like very easy goals for most of the people, but I think these are something that can challenge myself a lot.

First goal is to improve my English skill; I hope by the end of year my ability of speaking, listening, and writing. For the speaking part, I need to speak more English than Chinese during my free time. People might think why is it hard to speak less Chinese and more English? It is because our school have lots of Chinese student, almost ⅕ of the whole school students. You can see Chinese students everywhere in the campus. This is why I need to work more hard on, I need to control myself to stop speaking that much Chinese but more English.

I’m not only need to work more on the speaking part, but also the listening part. Just like what I said, there are lots of Chinese students in our school, so I will have less chances to stay with the American students. Not I don’t want to stay with them, but people like to be in a group that every speak the same language. If I always hang out with those same people, I won’t able to improve my English skill. This is why I need to force myself to speak with American students or someone who don’t speak Chinese.

The writing skill part I want to keep it to the last because it is the most important one. Let me talk about the friends one. People might think how difficult to make new friends, if you think of that then you are wrong. People always think I’m a extrovert person, but the truth is opposite. I’m actually very introvert but people don’t know that. I always will feel nervous when I talk to someone I don’t know that much. I’m afraid that I will say something wrong or not appropriate to he/she. This is why make friends is one of my goals for this year, I hope I can be more brave and won’t be nervous when I talk to new people. Now, I already know lots of new friends, include Chinese and not Chinese. However, I hope I can make more friends before this year end.

Last but not least, the writing part, this might be the biggest problem I have since I learned English. My speaking and listening part are all right, but my writing part didn’t go so well. I always have problem when I wrote anything, such as grammar mistake, spelling mistake, or even the idea is not clear. This is why I put this one at the last, because it is just too important for me right now, especially next year I will required to write a college essay and SAT. I love English and I always think it is very easy but the truth tell me it is not. This is why this year I want to put more effort on it than before. Now I’m already a junior, I can’t be the old me when I was in 9/10 grade. I need to work more harder to improve my grade. This is why I’m so glad I take Writing 3 because it did really help me a lot with my writing. Now I won’t make silly grammar mistake that often and I start to use some figurative language in my writing. This is a good start but I can’t stop, because only keep practice then you will get better on it!

Transition Words and Phrases

Words that ADD information
also	and
in addition	furthermore

-The little girl put on her yellow shirt and brown jacket.

-Chris is on the basketball team this semester at Cheshire Academy. In addition, he is on the soccer team.

- I admire him because he is a great long distance runner. Furthermore, he is a perfect student in the class.

-Crystal likes camping in the mountains. Also, she is an experienced hiker.

Words that show CONCLUSION
finally	in conclusion

-After so much time waiting in the long line, the boys finally got their hamburgers.

-There was a malfunction in the smoke machines and lights, the curtains would not open and close properly, and one of the actors was sick with no stand-in. In conclusion, the play was a disaster.

Words that REPEAT information
in fact	in other words

-Lisa decided not to go to King Islands. In fact she told me, "No, way."

-I feel that our last Student Council meeting did not go well. In other words, it was a mess.

Words that show CONTRASTS or DIFFERENCES
although	but
however	yet

-We wanted to leave at 8:00. However, Mike arrived too late.

-Although Steven was extremely tired, he washed the dishes.

-Bill earned an A on his essay, but Susan got a B.

-He knows that he should do his homework, yet he never does it.

Words that show a TIME relationship
Before	until	then
meanwhile	after that

-Stephen went to pick up Irene before he stopped by McDonald's for lunch.

-We need to wash our clothes, after that we can go to the Taste of D.C. festival.

-Wait until tonight, then you will be able to see the full moon over Gallaudet's Chapel Hall.

-The show is not over until the actors take their final bows at the end.

-That house felt very creepy inside; meanwhile, it was sunny outside.

Words that LIMIT or PREPARE for an example
for example	for instance
such as

-Not all birds eat berries. For example, vultures eat dead animals.

-There are things that need to be done to improve the company. For instance, we can begin by organizing the files.

-I have a few things to take care of such as paying bills, cleaning the house, and going to the post office.

Words that show CAUSE
because

-Because it is raining today, the homecoming game and the food booths will be cancelled.

Words that show EFFECT/RESULTS
as a result	therefore

-The weather is supposed to be drizzly and chilly today; as a result, the Deaf Festival will be cancelled.

-I was too tired; therefore I decided not to go to the party last night.

Words that ASSERT OBVIOUS TRUTH or GRANT OPPOSITION

certainly

-Certainly, you may borrow my book. But, be sure to return it to me next week.