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.