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It is time for study hall after morning meeting. Students are filling the classroom thus it becomes a little bit crowded. It seems to be the busiest extra help for the precalculus class since the chapter about function is confusing to many students. Some of them find themselves a place to sit, and start chatting with each other. Others automatically stand in a line and start waiting. Mr. Huston is busy although many students are chatting with others rather than asking him questions. The desks are in a mess since students always move them in order to discuss more conveniently. Noise is 

getting louder and louder  which bothers me a little bit. The air conditioner is also noisy although it runs great which makes the room kind of warm. 

Finally it becomes quiet after a long time of chaos. Students get out of the classroom one by one after finishing their questions about the complicated problems of the annoying chapter. The white board turns dark blue, seems to sleep deeply. Sunshine comes through the window and spreads on my desk which makes me feel sleepy. Mr. Huston starts to line up the desks slowly with his classical coy smile on his face. Checking his iPad , courseware and even his name cards for asking questions randomly. On his messy table, there are quizzes and tests paper  he tries to separate and hand out to students in his next class.  He hurries up in order to make everything well-organized. Students arrive the classroom gradually. In a minute, the class begins. 

 

Description of my bottle.

The blue straw, straight but stands a little bit slant, catches my eyes first. On the top of the straw, there are some bite marks since I usually bite the straw with my teeth. Rotating the straw, it leads to the spinning of water and vortex shows up. Looking down along the straw, the cover of the bottle stops my eyesight. Some spray is on it, unevenly and thin. There are five circles on the cover, from small to big, like the orbits of planets. However, it seems to be a little dirty since I always use the bottle to drink tea and hardly brush it. Keeping looking down, the straw seems to be zigzag in the water. That is really funny. I remembered that my grandfather spent nearly two hours to explain why chopsticks become zigzag when I looked at them through the water. That was a long time ago which I really missed. The most apparent sign which distinguish the bottle from others is the blue words "Cheshire Academy" in the middle of it. A claw, the symbol of cat, is sitting between "cheshire" and "academy". The water in the bottle is clear. I hope that they could be hot thus I can hold it the warm my hands. Unfortunately, it is extremely cold now. The bottom of the bottle is a lot smaller that the cover since the shape of the bottle is circular truncated cone. What makes me surprise is the things writing on the surface of the bottom: made in china. This is kind of amazing to know that the bottle I got from my foreign school is also ma in China.

Details

-Top

Brown to yellow 

Kind of dirty with little black dots on it

In the middle there is a small whole

A lack circle on the right of the whole

A couple of nail snags on it

-Middle

Huge white board

Four color and five parts

On the left corner is a quote in green

Down is red information of extra help

On the write corner is the avoid list

Down is the musical information

In the middle is information about Keri Smith 

On the edge of the left and right there are silver nail snags and the wood is kind of dirty too

In the bottom there are 6 pens

-The information of the reactive artist Keri Smith is constructed like a flower

-The magnet lined on the right are like lady bugs

-The huge, white board likes the mother of all the words on it.

Galileo, the star around science.

                                                    

Have you ever heard of Galileo? Have you ever seen the play about him? If your answer is no, you are out! The play Galileo was on shown in the past three days! How could you miss it! As a crew of the show Galileo, I have experienced a fantastic time during the fall. It is totally different for me from other shows not only because of my participation, but also its academic and impressive content. 

To start with, Galileo by Bertolt Brecht is a short history play about the scientist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. It charts Galileo's later years, when his experiments with telescopes and development of evidence for a heliocentric model of the solar system threatened the Church, resulting in Galileo's inquisition and his eventual recantation of his scientific findings. This is a really academic play with lots of confusing words. I cannot understand a large amount of words. Besides, the characters confused me sometimes since some of the actors acted more that one characters and hardly changed their clothes. However, I still could get most of the parts by their great acting and changes of emotion. That was amazing since i have learnt a lot of things I've never heard before.

Secondly, I would like to talk about my favorite scene which the actresses come out from the backstage with crazy laughter. I have seen this scene for many times and can even memorize since this scene is kind of difficult for the three actresses to perform in  passionate and insane emotion. During the rehearsal, they met many difficulties not only in emotion, articulation and lines, but also gestures. It seemed really "hopeless, hopeless, hopeless" for them to complete the entire scene. What makes me surprise is that the scene ran fantastic. Began with the first laughter, they devoted their passion and attention to the show. They brought fun to the audience  and made them a little bit relaxed in the complicated and thought-provoking show. 

 

Furthermore, as a stage crew, I really appreciate the earnest of the stage manager. She spent most of her time concentrating on lines, lights and reminding us of scene changes. Therefore, we did most of our jobs perfectly and quickly. That was a delicate job since we cannot make mistakes or the play would be a mess. At first, I didn't really like my job because it is kind of boring and needs us to be scrupulous. However, after times' and times' rehearsal, I noticed that every small job is a great work and we should always be serious to it. 

All in all, the play Galileo is really a good and meaningful show. People can learn a lot of knowledge and think deeply from the show. If you have already missed the show, I really recommend that you should watch it on the internet. You will never be regret about watching the show not only because of the scientific information but also the way Brecht shows audience the dark side of the society. 

 

 

 

 

Playwright Brecht

original name Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht   (born Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Ger.—died Aug. 14, 1956, East Berlin), German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes.

Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born, studied medicine (Munich, 1917–21), and served in an army hospital (1918). From this period date his first play, Baal (produced 1923); his first success, Trommeln in der Nacht (Kleist Preis, 1922; Drums in the Night); the poems and songs collected as Die Hauspostille (1927; A Manual of Piety, 1966), his first professional production (Edward II, 1924); and his admiration for Wedekind, Rimbaud, Villon, and Kipling.

Brecht was, first, a superior poet, with a command of many styles and moods. As a playwright he was an intensive worker, a restless piecer-together of ideas not always his own (The Threepenny Opera is based on John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera, and Edward II on Marlowe), a sardonic humorist, and a man of rare musical and visual awareness; but he was often bad at creating living characters or at giving his plays tension and shape. As a producer he liked lightness, clarity, and firmly knotted narrative sequence; a perfectionist, he forced the German theatre, against its nature, to underplay. As a theoretician he made principles out of his preferences—and even out of his faults.

Oh my dear homework

Dear Ms. G,

I am sorry I can't hand in my homework.Your don't know what happened to me!!!

Last night, my little sister was crazy. I didn't know what she had drunk, maybe too much coke. While I was doing my homework, she jumped up on my desk and stood on my iPad. She shaked her head impetuously and sang Taylor swift's new song over and over again. She even danced with he teddy bear on my iPad like she was a short-leg Taylor. I just thought luckily she was not heavy and as long as my iPad can still work...OMG where was her diaper!!! Every time after mom wash her, she would take her diaper away...well well well, I watched my iPad to turn black, even saw the spark the electron.

Nevertheless, homework do not really need a iPad right? I knew that so thatI took out my notebook. When I started writing, my sister took away my pencil and started to bite! I grabbed it away as noon as possible. Unfortunately, she still ate the cartridge of it. You know pencils are toxic right. I ran out in a hurry and told mom to take her to the hospital. Oh yes, I brought my notebook with me in order to finish my homework before today class begins. Oh my poor sister, she was vomit and cried and asked my to tell her fairy tails. How can I refuse the little girl's request? I read many fairy tales for her until she felt asleep.

Then I decided to work on my essay again. However, my pencil was in my sister's stomach... I ran out all the way down the street to see if there was a store to buy a pencil. Suddenly, a couple of muscular people with Micky mouse tattoo showed up. They were really terrifying and required me to give all my money to them. I told them I only had a little money to buy a pencil for my really important homework. I told them I love school and homework really much. They laughed loudly and started to hit me since they hated school and homework. I was exausted after they left but didn't give up. I crumbled and reached the hospital.

Oh my god where is my notebook!!!! I remembered that I had put them on my tiny little bench. Abruptly, I saw a little black thing under the bed. It was a squirrl eating my notebook! Oh no, there were a bunch of squirrels eating my notebook. When they saw me, they stopped eating. Being afraid of sharing food, they expertly jumped towards me and drifted me out of the room. One of them even bite the toe. I can show you of you want. I cried out loudly outside the room and spent my night lonely and cold.

That was what happened to me and my homework. I hope that you could forgive me or I won't go back to school since the world is too vicious and insidious. No one wants to help me and everyone tries to kill me. I hope that you are a good teacher who really cares about me.

Best wishes

Sophia

Research of Galieo.

Galileo Galilei, a pioneer of modern physics and telescopic astronomy, was born near Pisa, Italy, on Feb. 15, 1564. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa as a medical student, but he soon became interested in mathematics and left without a degree in 1585. After teaching privately at Florence, he was made professor of mathematics at Pisa in 1589. There he is said to have demonstrated from the Leaning Tower that Aristotelian physics was wrong in assuming that speed of fall was proportional to weight. He also wrote a treatise on motion, emphasizing mathematical arguments. In 1592, Galileo became professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1610. He devised a calculating device now called the sector, worked out a mechanical explanation of the tides based on the Copernican motions of the Earth (see Copernicus, Nicolaus), and wrote a treatise on mechanics showing that machines do not create power but merely transform it.

In 1602, Galileo resumed his investigations of motion along inclined planes and began to study the motion of pendulums. By 1604 he had formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements.

Late in 1604 a supernova appeared, and Galileo became involved in a dispute with philosophers who held (with Aristotle) that change could not occur in the heavens. Applying the mathematics of parallax, Galileo found the star to be very distant, in the supposedly unchangeable regions of the cosmos, and he attacked Aristotelian qualitative principles in science. Returning to his studies of motion, he established quantitatively a restricted inertial principle and determined that projectiles move in parabolic paths. In 1609 he was writing a mathematical treatise on motion when news arrived of the newly invented Dutch telescope. He was so excited by its possible scientific applications that he put other work aside and began to construct his own telescopes.

Drake, Stillman. "Galileo Galilei." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Grolier Online, 2014. Web. 10 Nov. 2014.