BAISHAN AWS WEEKLY UPDATE - January 15, 2021

BAISHAN AWS WEEKLY UPDATE - January 15, 2021 

白珊·安妮高中周讯  - 2021年1月15日

Baishan AWS is partnered with Annie Wright Schools (AWS) in Tacoma, Washington and prepares students for higher education abroad.  Our Weekly Update is an opportunity for us to share all of the great learning experiences that take place both in and outside of our classroom, and is a testament to our commitment to communication with our parents as well as the community.

白珊·安妮高中是青岛白珊学校与美国华盛顿州塔科马市的安妮·怀特学校合作，为学生到海外继续学习做好准备的高中项目。每周的周讯是我们分享学生在学校课堂内外有趣学习经历的机会，也是我们致力于与家长和社区进行沟通的很好的工具和证明。    

Baishan AWS, Qingdao, China  

白珊·安妮高中              

中国 青岛 

From the Director  项目主任总结

Although 2020 is behind us, there is still a few more weeks of Semester 1.  This means that students are busy summarizing what they have learned since August and preparing for their final summative assessments.  These types of exams can look like traditional paper and pencil tests or they can be a bit different.  For Drama students, the summative assessment comes in the form of an end-of-the-semester performance.

尽管2020年已经过去了，但距离我们第一学期结束还有几周时间。学生们现在正忙于总结自8月份以来所学的知识，并为最后的总结性评估做好准备。最后的总结性评估可能看起来像传统的纸笔考试，但又有所不同。对于本续期学习戏剧课的学生来说，他们的总结性评估是以期末汇报演出的方式进行的。

As part of Baishan AWS's emphasis on providing holistic education and facilitating experiences that students need to be accepted into universities, we added Drama class to this year's list of extra-curricular activities.  Led by the experienced, professional guidance of director Romina Czaja, these students have been working on best singing, dancing, and acting techniques.  These students performed Baishan AWS's first musical on Wednesday, January 14th in the Baishan Auditorium in front of their peers and guests.  We appreciate the parents who braved the cold and traffic to come support their children and the arts.  We are also very proud of our courageous students who demonstrate  their best on stage, in a second language moreover.

白珊·安妮高中旨在为学生提供全人教育，并为学生进入大学做好准备 ，在今年的课外活动中，我们增加了戏剧课。在有丰富舞台经验的导演Romina Czaja的专业指导下，我们的学生一直致力于学习最佳的演唱、舞蹈和表演技巧。1月14日，星期三，在白珊学校的大礼堂，戏剧课的学生们向学生，家长和老师们展示了白珊·安妮高中项目的第一部音乐剧。非常感谢克服严寒和交通前来支持孩子们和欣赏艺术的家长们。我们也为这些勇敢的学生们感到骄傲，他们在舞台上用第二语言最佳地展示了自我。

Special thanks to Miss Czaja for the direction and to Ms. Iris Jia for the support. 特别感谢Miss Czaja的专业指导和Iris Jia老师的协助工作。

Baishan AWS cast:

-    Blue Ties Jessica, Tracy, Eden, Rain and Justin

-    Green Ties Alex and Jay

-    Red Tie Tony

白珊·安妮高中戏剧表演学生：

•         蓝带：纪晓雯，任籽妍，刘庚雨，高晟翔，李健明

•         绿带：刘正泽，叶洪佑

•         红带：赵浩然

AWS Tacoma cast:

-    Blue Ties Ryan, Chloe, Cynthia, Frank, and Iris

-    Green Tie Lily, and

-    Red Tie Sukie

美国安妮学校戏剧表演学生

•         蓝带： 庄润涵，陈雨萌，吕闻欣，贾子綮，沈嘉琪

•         绿带：闫子乐

•         红带：王艺舒

1 - Director Czaja during rehearsal  Miss Czaja导演正在指导学生排练

2 - Students rehearse for the final performance. 学生们演出前的彩排

3 - Students rehearse for the final performance.学生们演出前的彩排

4 - Students rehearse for the final performance.  学生们演出前的彩排

5 - Students rehearse for the final performance.学生们演出前的彩排

6 - Director Czaja and Mr. JD Holtrop adjusting the lights and sounds  Miss Czaja导演和Mr.JD Holtrop正在调试舞台的灯光和音响

Preparing for Semester 1 Reports

Students and parents are reminded that this is an important time of the year.  Semester 1 reports are being finalized with grades and teacher comments.  The information in these reports become part of the students' high school transcripts. 

临近期末，学生和家长非常清楚：这是一学年中非常重要的时刻。老师们正在准备第一学期的评语和成绩报告。学期末的成绩报告非常重要，它会成为学生申请大学高中阶段成绩单的一部分。

Fortunately, students still have time to make the necessary corrections and adjustments before these grades become final.  Parents, we need your help with encouraging the students to take advantage of the teachers' willingness to provide individualized help during the 15-minute Get Wright Time.  Teachers are providing multiple opportunities for students to make corrections or ask clarifying questions.  Students must, however, identify the courses they need help in and take the initiative to get the help. 

幸运的是，在期末成绩最终截止之前，学生们还有时间来弥补，修正缺失的作业和考试。家长们，我们需要您的帮助，请鼓励孩子们充分利用每天下午15分钟的老师答疑时间，主动向老师寻求有针对性的帮助。老师们为学生提供了多次机会进行错误纠正或提问不懂的问题。然而，学生必须确定他们需要帮助的课程，并主动向老师寻求帮助。

ECAs have been cancelled during this upcoming week to make sure students have the necessary time to prepare.

下周，课外选修课将暂停一周，以确保学生有必要的时间最后提交缺失的作业和修正之前的错误。

Humanities with Ms. Brauer 人文科学

Our Grade 9 geographers have started a new unit, and the last of our units on physical geography! They will be studying climates and ecosystems – first focusing on the natural cycles of earth, and then studying how humans have knocked some of these systems and cycles out of balance.  本周九年级的地理学家们开始学习了一个新的单元，也是我们最后一个自然地理单元！学生们将研究气候和生态系统——首先关注地球的自然循环，然后研究人类的行为是如何使这些系统和循环失去平衡的。  

Our Grade 10/11 historians are studying the Ottomans, and their most famous leader Suleiman the Magnificent. Was he really magnificent? How did the Ottomans build such a large empire, and why were the kings and monarchs of Europe so afraid of them?  十年级和十一年级的历史学家们本周正在研究奥斯曼帝国 ，以及他们最著名的领袖苏莱曼。他真的很伟大吗？奥斯曼人是如何建立如此庞大的帝国的？为什么欧洲的国王和君主如此害怕他们？  

Our Grade 11 AP geographers crashed and burned on the Unit 3 test, so we’ve been assessing what went wrong, reviewing this material, and using our persistence and discipline to recover and move forward. We’ve started Unit 4 on Political Geography with a study of ethnicity and race, which are big factors in inequality and conflict throughout history and around the world.  11年级AP人文地理学家们在第3单元的考试中成绩不佳，所以本周我们一直在分析问题出在哪里，复习本单元的主要文本材料，并用我们的坚持和毅力来进行修正并继续前进。从第四单元政治地理学开始，我们将学习种族和民族，这是历史上世界各地不平等和冲突的重要因素。

Chinese Zhongkao with Mr. Zhan

作为议论文学习的总结，本周进行了一场班级微型辩论赛。正方观点是“干一行，爱一行”，反方观点是“爱一行，干一行”。通过准备辩论赛，学生要明确己方和对方的观点，要搜集支持己方观点的各种论据，包括事实和名人名言等。这使学生基本掌握了议论文的写作要领：用论据证明论点。在辩论过程中，学生充分证明己方观点，指出对方的错误之处。这就基本掌握了驳论文的几种“驳”的方式：驳论点、驳论据和驳论证。在辩论中，学生常常就一个用词、一个论据展开激烈的交锋，也使他们体会到议论文在用词上严谨有分寸、论据的使用是有说服力才行。辩论赛的输赢不是目的，重要的是在这个过程中，学生不但对议论文的写作有了生动具体的理解，更可喜的是对“个人爱好”与“干好职业”的关系有了辩证和深入的思考。

As a summary of argumentative study, a class Mini debate contest was held this week. The positive point of view is "do a line, love a line", while the negative point of view is "love a line, do a line". By preparing for the debate, students should be clear about their own and the other side's views, and collect all kinds of arguments supporting their own views, including facts and famous sayings. This enables students to master the essentials of argumentative writing: to prove arguments with arguments. In the process of debate, students fully prove their own point of view and point out the other side's mistakes. In this way, we have basically mastered several ways of refuting the thesis: Refuting the argument, refuting the argument and refuting the argument. In the debate, students often have a fierce confrontation on one word and one argument, which also makes them realize that the argumentative paper is rigorous and proper in word use, and the use of arguments is persuasive. It is not the purpose to win or lose the debate contest. The important thing is that in this process, students not only have a vivid and specific understanding of argumentative writing, but also have a dialectical and in-depth thinking about the relationship between "personal hobbies" and "doing a good job".

Visual Arts with Mr. Brandt 视觉艺术

Following the taught creative process, the students have moved on from their technical studies of 2-point linear perspective drawing and have begun their color studies. 

按照所教的创作过程，本周学生们已经开始学习两点线性透视图的技术，并开始研究色彩。

Students in all grades will be exploring how oil pastels can be used as both drawing and painting mediums.  Oil pastels were invented as a cost-efficient way for oil painters to investigate color combinations before starting their large expensive oil painting.  Similarly, our students are exploring different color combinations before starting their final artwork.

所有年级的艺术课上，学生们都将探索如何利用油画棒作为素描和绘画的媒介。油画棒的发明是为了让画家们在开始他们昂贵的大型油画创作之前研究色彩的组合。同样，我们的学生在开始期末的作品之前也在探索不同的颜色组合。

As oil pastels are not water-based, the students are using small amounts of solvent instead of water.   

由于油画棒不是水性的，学生们将使用少量溶剂来代替水

7 - Red Tie Max continues to advance using acrylic paints.红带Max继续使用丙烯颜料进行创作

8 - Red Ties practice linear perspective drawing.红带学生正在练习线性透视画

9 - Blue Tie Jessica is investigating which colors to apply to her linear perspective drawing. 蓝带Jessica正在研究哪些颜色适用于她的线性透视图。

Artist sketchbook work from this past week学生们上周的艺术创作

10 - Red Tie Max R.红带Max R.

11 - Blue Tie Rain蓝带 Rain

12 - Red Tie Zoey红带 Zoey

English Language Arts with Ms. Jia and Ms. Jenn 英语语言文学

This week was a writing week in all three levels of English. Ninth grade students are writing a character analysis essay, considering whether or not the character of Holden Caulfield changed over the course of the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Tenth grade students are writing persuasive essays, trying to get readers to agree that smoking in outdoor public spaces is bad and that wearing uniforms at school is a good idea...or a bad idea. Eleventh grade students are developing arguments about the harm of social media or that industrialization has been a net negative for the planet. Students in 10th and 11th grade are learning to employ pathos, ethos, and logos to support their ideas, and all students are engaged in an effort to get their citations perfect.  

本周在英语语言文学课上，三个年级的学生都进行了文章写作。九年级的学生正在写一篇人物分析文章，考虑霍尔顿·考尔菲尔德这个人物在小说《麦田里的守望者》的叙述过程中是否发生了变化。十年级的学生正在写一篇有说服力的议论文，试图让读者同意在户外公共场所吸烟是不好的，在学校穿校服的优缺点等等。十一年级的学生正在就社交媒体的危害或工业化对地球的负面影响展开讨论。十年级和十一年级的学生正在学习运用情感共鸣、伦理道德和事实数据来支持他们的想法。所有的学生都在努力学习如果在文章中正确引用别人的观点和想法。    

Physical and Health Education with Coach Faamamafa 体育

Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness (flexibility, muscular strength, and cardio-vascular fitness). Separated the students in groups to create any form of aerobic training. They were be able to mentioned some exercises that would help develop fitness and health. Then they perform a task in our class of doing 10 rounds of different locomotion exercises around the gym both physically and mentally. All the students completed their 10 rounds and also burns a lot of calories with smile on their faces.  

有氧体操是一种非常健康的体育运动形式，它将有节奏的有氧运动与身体的伸展和力量训练结合起来，目的是提高身体素质的所有要素（柔韧性、肌力和心血管健康）。本周我把学生分成几个小组进行了多种形式的有氧训练。学生们进行了一些有助于身体发展健康的运动。然后他们在课上完成了一个任务，在体育馆里做10轮不同的身体和心理运动。所有的学生都完成了10轮的训练任务， 燃烧了大量的卡路里，同学们都非常高兴。    

Physics with Mr. Kytle 物理

As we started off this week the students examined the Earth's Gravitational Field and discovered that the strength of the field does not have a uniform distribution. The students then began the process of explaining why that might be and what might be causing this uneven distribution. On Thursday the students reviewed for their exam on the Fundamental Forces and on Friday the students were given their exam. 

本周的物理课上，一开始学生们研究了地球的引力场，发现引力场的强度并不是均匀分布的。然后，学生们开始解释为什么会这样以及是什么导致了这种不均匀的分布。本周四学生们复习了关于基本力的知识，周五学生们进行了考试。  

13 - The Earth's Gravitational Field. Notice that it is not even. 地球的引力场。请注意，它不是均匀分布的。

14 - A flattened image of the Earth's surface with the Earth's Gravitational Field. 地球表面与地球引力场的平面图像。

Chinese Language with Ms. Zheng 中国文学

         本学期中文阅读活动，10年级学生们在老师的指导下，选择了不同的书目，如《海边的卡夫卡》、《撒哈拉的故事》等进行分阶段阅读。本周，我们一起分享了书中的精彩故事片段和不同的情感体会。接下来同学们会完成他们的读书报告并展示各自不同的感悟和心得。让我们先一起欣赏一下他们的读书摘抄吧。

In this semester's Chinese reading activities, grade 10th students, under the guidance of the teacher, choose different books, such as Kafka by the sea and the story of the Sahara, and read them by plans. This week, they shared their wonderful stories and different emotional experiences. Next, students will complete their reading report to show their different opinions and experiences. Let's enjoy their reading excerpts first.

我们大家都在持续失去种种宝贵的东西，宝贵的机会和可能性，无法挽回的感情。这是生存的一个意义。—— Henry  摘自《海边的卡夫卡》

我注视着那个红色的微笑，这个微笑红得与赛丽娜乔伊家花园里郁金香的颜色如出一辙，那茎部仿佛正在愈合的伤口的颜色。——Victoria 摘自《使女的故事》

故事长满天涯海角，包括你和你的故乡。——Katherine摘自大冰《好吗好的》

她是那样温柔，那样恬静，那样优雅，那样含情脉脉，微微的忧戚里含着高贵的神情。——Jay 摘自曹文轩《野风车》

       本周，11年级的Billy和Max同学分别讲解展示了他们所选定的节日专题，通过自己制作的视频或PPT的形式，分享了他们关于不同节日习俗和文化的研究成果。另外，我们继续进行了阅读专题——说明文阅读和议论文阅读的专项练习，以提高阅读分析和解题能力。   

This week, Billy and Max  explained and displayed their selected Festival topics respectively, and shared their research results on different festival customs and cultures through their videos or ppts. In addition, we continue to carry out the special exercises of reading special topics - expository reading and argumentative reading, in order to improve the ability of reading analysis and  the ability to solve problems.

Chemistry with Ms. Jiajia 化学课

In this week, students started with chemical reactions. Students are supposed to: formulate a hypothesis or predict the results of an experiment; determine a balanced chemical equation for a given chemical phenomena; represent chemical substances or phenomena with appropriate diagrams or models (e.g., electron configuration); explain the relationship between variables within an equation when one variable changes；write down overall ionic equations and net ionic equations; differ strong electrolytes, weak electrolytes and non electrolytes. 

这个星期，学生们开始了化学反应的学习。学生应该会对一个实验给出假设或预测实验结果；能够平衡化学方程式；能够用合适的图表或模型来描述化学物质或化学现象；能够解释各物理量间的相互关系，能够写出完整及简化的离子反应式。

University Guidance and TOEFL with Ms. Du 美国大学升学指导课

本周课上首先进行了PSAT文学类阅读文章的阅读策略复习以及重点描述情节分析，然后进行了社科类说明文的文章结构分析。在文学类文章讲解中，对于一些生动的情节采取了场景类比的方式，让学生们能感同身受，然后对于问题做出自己正确的判断。通过讲解，学生们了解到在PSAT和SAT考试中，词汇量以及语法知识只是前提，不意味着就可以取得好的成绩。SAT是一个注重思维方式以及理解能力的测试，这些能力绝不是可以短期培养的，需要长期的循序渐进。建议孩子们课下加大英文阅读量，形成阅读和思考习惯，真正提升英语综合能力。

In this week's class, we first reviewed the reading strategies of PSAT literature reading article and analyzed the key descriptive plots, and then analyzed the structure of social science expository article. In the explanation of literature article, scene analogy was adopted for some vivid plots, so that the students could feel the same, and then made their own correct answers to questions. Through the explanation, the students understand that in PSAT and SAT, vocabulary and grammar knowledge is only a prerequisite, the grasp of them does not mean you can get good grades. SAT is a test that focuses on the way of thinking and the ability of comprehension, which cannot be cultivated in a short time. It is suggested that  students should increase the amount of English reading after class, form the habit of reading and thinking, and then really improve their English proficiency.

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