BAISHAN AWS WEEKLY UPDATE - March 5, 2021

BAISHAN AWS WEEKLY UPDATE - March 5, 2021 

白珊·安妮高中周讯  - 2021年3月5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.

Baishan AWS, Qingdao, China 

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。   

白珊·安妮高中             

中国 青岛 

From the Director  项目主任总结

Parent-teacher conference day 家长-老师见面会

We are currently schedule the parent-teacher conference day schedule for Monday, March 29th.  The structure of the day will be very similar to our last parent-teacher conference day in October.  Students will be off-timetable and encouraged to attend the meetings.  More details coming in the next week.

本学期家长会定于3月29日星期一。本次的家长会安排类似于上学期10月份的家长会。学生们被鼓励跟随家长一起参加会议。更多细节将在下周公布。

Exciting lessons 生动有趣的课堂

As I review this week's articles, I am reminded that we truly do have excellent faculty here at Baishan AWS.  These lessons are great examples of why our program offers more than other schools. 当我审阅本周的周讯时， 我再次看到了白珊·安妮高中优秀的教职员工的辛勤付出，这些生动有趣的课堂很好地说明了为什么我们能提供更多更更富的课程。

In this update, you'll read about students in Advisory class learning the violin from their own classmate.  You will also read how students are, quite literally, reaching higher level thinking by rock climbing in PE.   You will also read about our English Language Arts students examining history through both fictional and non-fictional texts. 在本周更新的周讯中，您会看到学生在班课上跟自己的同学学习小提琴，您也会看到学生们是如何通过体育课上的攀岩 活动达到更高层次的认知的，您也会读到我们的学生在英语语言文学课上是如何通过虚构和非虚构的文本来考察历史的。

Birthday Celebrations 生日庆祝

We celebrated the February and March birthdays on Friday, March 5th. Happy Birthdays to Blue Ties Jessica and Justin, Tacoma Green Tie Lily, and Ms. Emilia Zheng!   3月5日星期五我们为2月份和3月份过生日的老师和同学共同举行了生日庆祝活动。祝蓝带学生Jessica和Justin，塔科马绿带学生Lily和语文老师郑老师生日快乐！ 

1 - Blue Tie Justin does the ceremonial first cut.  蓝带学生Justin第一个切蛋糕

Humanities with Ms. Brauer 人文科学

2 - The Harvesters, Pieter Breughel the Elder, 1565. Source: Wikimedia Commons. 《收割者》，老彼特·布鲁厄尔，1565年。来源：维基百科。

Our Grade 9 geographers spent this week researching and then discussing how climate change is impacting the Arctic – and not just the ice, but also the polar bears, the walruses, the cultures and traditions of the Inuit people. Will the rest of us start to feel the impact of these changes, too?   本周九年级的地理学家们研究并讨论了气候变化是如何影响北极的——不仅仅是冰，还有北极熊、海象、因纽特人的文化和传统。我们其他人也会开始感受到这些变化的影响吗？ 

Our Grade 10/11s have been practicing some of the most important foundational skills that historians and academics use – close reading, annotation, corroboration, evaluating bias, and determining the reliability of a source. They’ve been practicing these skills using sources that focus on colonialism and the Age of Exploration and Disruption.   10/11年级的学生正在学习历史学家和学者们经常使用的一些最重要的基本技能——细读、注释、证实、评估偏见和确定来源的可靠性。学生们一直在通过学习有关殖民主义和探索与颠覆时代的资源来练习这些技能。

Our Grade 11 AP geographers are continuing their study of agriculture, evaluating the benefits and costs that emerged from our three Agricultural Revolutions. We’ve also explored patterns of land ownership – from bid-rent theory to land survey methods – to explain why European dairies were always close to cities, for example, or how Kenya could become a major supplier of roses worldwide.  11年级的AP地理学家们本周继续对农业进行研究，评估了三次农业革命带来的效益和成本。学生们还探索了土地所有权的模式——从招租理论到土地调查方法——来解释为什么欧洲乳品厂总是离城市很近，或者肯尼亚如何成为全球玫瑰的主要供应商。

Mathematics with Mr. Guo

Our Grade 9 students worked on condition probability and rules of probability and tried to understand the concept of randomness and use random numbers to make a simulation. They analyzed decisions and strategies using probability concepts.

九年级学生们研究条件概率和概率规则，并试图理解随机性的概念，利用随机数进行模拟实验。他们使用概率知识分析策略并作出决定。

Grade 10 students moved on to second part of the unit, using Statistical method to analyze data. We revised some essential terms in Statistics, including mean, mode, median, range, and etc. They learned to find quartiles and interquartile range and draw a box-and-whisker plot to display data. 

10年级学生进入本单元的第二部分的学习，使用统计方法分析数据。我们复习了统计学中的一些基本术语，包括平均值、模式、中位数、极差等。他们学会了寻找四分位数和四分位数的范围，并绘制箱型图来显示数据。

Grade 11 students discovered a new method of locating points in the plane, The Polar Coordinate System. The polar coordinate system uses a radial distance and an angle to locate a point and is useful in calculating the equations of motion from a lot of mechanical systems. Students tried to convert between polar and cartesian coordinate system and graph a polar equation. We concluded the study of complex numbers this week.

11年级学生学习了一种新的在平面上定位点的新方法，极地坐标系统。极地坐标系统使用径向距离和角度来定位一个点，在计算许多机械系统的运动方程方面很有用。学生试图在极地和笛卡尔坐标系统之间转换，并绘制极地方程。本周我们完成了对复数的学习。

Chinese Zhongkao with Mr. Zhan 中文

本周9年级学生学习了当代女诗人舒婷的诗作《祖国啊，我亲爱的祖国》。掌握了学习诗歌的三把“金钥匙”。通过朗读，读出节奏韵律，体会其音乐美；通过想象，想出情景画面，体会其图画美；通过思考，理解思想感情，体会其情感美。此外，还想和大家分享的是，在晨会课上，纪晓雯同学带领大家到音乐教室，分享她拉小提琴的经历，介绍小提琴的知识，并手把手地教大家掌握一些拉小提琴的基本要领，这样的晨会课突破了以往“我说你听”的形式，获得了大家的欢迎，是一种有意义的尝试。

This week, the 9th graders learned the contemporary poet Shu Ting's poem "Homeland, My Dear Motherland". Students developed their three "golden keys" to poetry: Through reading aloud, reading with rhythm, experience its musical beauty, through imagination, come up with a scene, experience its picture beauty, through thinking, understanding the thoughts and feelings, experience its emotional beauty.

In addition, also want to share with you, in the morning class,  Jessica Ji led everyone to the music classroom, share her experience of playing the violin, introduce the violin knowledge, and hand-in-hand to teach everyone to master some of the basic essentials of playing the violin, such a morning class broke through the previous "I say you listen" form, won everyone's welcome, is a meaningful attempt.

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

In ELA, as usual, students spent the week reading, writing, and thinking. The Blue Ties are half way through West Side Story and spent some time identifying examples of verbal, dramatic, and situational irony before diving in to Act 2. The Green Ties focused on the telling of the experience of surviving Auschwitz from three different perspectives--graphic novel, memoir, and documentary--as they continued to read their way through The Complete Maus. Finally, after reading 1984, the Red Ties worked on world building; they're creating a dystopian world and then writing a screenplay for a short film that will be set in that world. The whole school will attend a screening of their film at the end of March. 本周在英语语言文学课上，和往常一样，学生们在课上进行了阅读、写作和思考。蓝带九年级学生完成了《西区故事》第一幕的学习， 并对戏剧中的言语讽刺、戏剧性情节和情景反讽的例子进行了分析和学习，接下来将进行第二幕的学习。绿带十年级的学生从三个不同的角度学习了犹太人在二战期间从奥斯威辛幸存下来的经历——图文小说、回忆录和纪录片——他们将继续阅读并学习完整的漫画小说《鼠族》。红带十一年级的学生在读了小说《1984》之后，学生们正致力于创造一个反乌托邦的世界，然后以那个世界为背景，创作一部短片并撰写剧本，三月底他们将为全校学生展示他们的创作。   

 

Chinese Literature & Culture with Ms. Emilia  中国文学

          本周10年级学习了第一单元关于中国古代教育的内容，包括古代教育的形成和发展，古代的“六艺”教学内容，官学、私学和书院以及科举考试制度。同学们通过学习探究古今中外不同教育的特点，结合当今教育现状，发现存在的问题，进行对比分析，得出自己的结论，更全面深入地理解“什么是教育”。This week, Grade 10 student learned unit 1 about ancient Chinese education, including the formation and development of ancient education, ancient teaching content, official school, private school, Academy and imperial examination system. Students through learning to explore the characteristics of different education at all times and in different countries, combined with the current situation of education, found the existing problems, comparative analysis, draw their own conclusions, a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of "what is education".

         

 11年级的AP中文课，我们学习了6种特殊句式，比如双宾句，兼语句以及句式的变换。学习现代汉语句子的语法和生活实际使用的句子相结合，加深对“句子”这一语法层级的理解。另外，本学期我们加强了对词汇基础的学习和强化，用以积累和掌握更多的汉语词汇。In AP Chinese class of Grade 11, we learned six special sentence patterns, such as double object sentence, concurrent sentence and sentence pattern transformation. To learn the grammar of mandarin sentences and combine the sentences used in daily life, deepen the understanding of the grammatical level of "sentence". In addition, this semester, we have strengthened the study and reinforcement of vocabulary foundation to accumulate and master more Chinese vocabulary.

Visual Arts with Mr. Brandt 视觉艺术

 

3 - Green Tie Henry completes his artist research 绿带Henry正在进行艺术课上的研究

The Visual Art students have all finished their studies of other artists, compared them, and have described their intentions for what their own artwork. 本周在视觉艺术课上，学生们完成了对所选艺术家的学习，对他们的创作进行了比较，并描述了他们作品的创作意图。

Students are now working on their 3rd assignment in this Comparative Study unit.  Tasks in this assignment challenges the students to describe what they hope to create and then begin completing technical studies.  These technical studies are practice drawings.  Next week, these technical studies will be applying the paints and charcoals and ink. 

目前学生们正在完成比较研究单元的第三个作业。本作业中的任务要求学生描述他们希望创造什么，然后开始进行技术学习。本周这些技术主要用于绘画练习，下周，这些技术研究将应用于油画，木炭和墨水。

Students are also completing their sketchbook assignments.  See a few of their responses to the prompt A still-life of snack food items. 学生们也 在完成他们的绘画作业。下图是关于静物绘画-零食的一些作品  

4 - Green Tie Jordan 绿带Jordan的作品

5 - Blue Tie Mary 蓝带Mary的作品

6 - Blue Tie Rain 蓝带Rain的作品

7 - Green Tie Katherine 绿带Katherine的作品

8 - Red Tie Tony 红带Tony的作品

9 - Blue Tie Tracy 蓝带Tracy的作品

10 - Red Tie Zoey 红带Zoey的作品

Physical and Health Education with Coach Faamamafa 体育

Life is like a mountain, hard to climb but worth the amazing view from the top. Climbing is one of the fastest growing activity around the world. It is also considered as one of the hardest and challenging as you are on your own, depending on your strength, techniques and skills.  人生就像一座山，很难攀登，但值得从山顶欣赏到美丽的景色。攀岩是世界上发展最快的活动之一，它也被认为是最难和最具挑战性的运动，因为你主要是靠自己的努力，取决于你的力量，耐力和技能。

This week students get to learn the basic of climbing from climber protection to the belayer protection. Student have time to practice working on the rope in their groups. Student show their interested on climbing and try out for the first time. We will be continue learning basic skills on how to climb and how to secure more protection when someone is performing a task of climbing. 本周，学生们学习了攀岩的基本技能，以及攀岩者保护的基本方法。学生们在小组里练习了如何操作绳子。学生们第一次尝试攀岩，都表现出对攀岩的极大兴趣。接下来我们将继续学习攀登的基本技能，以及当有人执行攀登任务时如何获得更多的保护。  

Physics with Mr. Kytle 物理

This week the students are finalizing their understanding of how physical forces impact movement. The students examined the effect of multiple forces brought to bear upon a single object and the strain those forces have upon an object. This pairs well with the information the students already possess as they have learned that gravity and electromagnetic forces have an infinite range. As in, these forces are always present in some capacity and thus all objects have these forces acting upon them at all times.  本周在物理课上，学生们完成了力是如何影响运动的学习。学生们研究了施加在单个物体上的多重力的作用以及这些力对物体的应变。这些内容巩固了学生们已经掌握的知识，因为他们已经了解到重力和电磁力的范围是无限的。如上所述，这些力总是以某种形式存在，因此所有物体在任何时候都会受到这些力的作用。

The students also enhanced their vocabulary by increasing their ability to describe physical forces. From airplanes to boats, different situations have different descriptors for the forces involved. Overall, this week involves a lot of discussion and diagraming of different situations and the forces involved.  此外，学生们通过对力的学习，也增加了他们的专业词汇量， 从飞机到船只，不同的情况对所涉及的力有不同的描述。总的来说，本周学生们对不同情况所涉及的力进行了大量的讨论和分析。

11 - Here we can see some of the different Physical Forces. While the students had already learned some of these vocabulary words they have been tasked with learning quite a few more words that describe forces in different situations.

图中我们可以看到一些不同的物理力。虽然学生们已经学会了其中的一些词汇，但他们的任务是学习更多描述不同情况下的力的表达。 

12 - As we can see, it is only by taking all of these forces into consideration that we can truly appreciate motion. Activities like these help the students to appreciate details and to look further into problems and everyday occurrences. 

如图所示，只有考虑到所有这些力，我们才能真正理解运动。这样的活动有助于学生了解细节，深入了解日常生活中的问题和事件。  

Chemistry with Ms. Jiajia 化学课

This week students were completing the rest part of thermochemistry, then they reviewed what they had learned for the whole unit. The first step, they challenged to draw a mind map combing all the concepts and formulas, presented their mind map by explaining in more details and solved what they didn’t understand. The second step they did some questions to enhance their learning and understanding. Finally they took a short quiz for evaluation, self-reflection and summary. 

这个星期，学生们完成了热化学上周的剩余部分，然后学生对整个章节进行了回顾。首先，他们通过画思维导图把所学知识串联起来，然后用更详细的解释进行陈述表达，同时解决病弄懂了之前不明白的地方。第二步，学生们通过做了一些练习题进行深化理解。最后，通过做了一个小的随堂测试来进行自我评估，反馈与总结。

Next week, they will move on to next unit—Kinetics.

下个星期，将会进入下一个单元-动力学。

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

This week, G10 and G11 began learning how to effectively create an application essay. They were introduced with the seven updated 2020-21 Common Application topics and reviewed them one by one. They got to know the standards of a good essay and process of writing an essay. They need to improve their story-telling ability and explore their own unique life experience and shining points to make themselves stand out in the application process.

本周，G10和G11开始学习如何有效地撰写大学申请论文。他们开始了解7个更新的2020-21美国大学申请系统的写作话题，并逐一进行了分析。他们了解了一篇好文章的标准和创作过程。他们需要提高自己的故事讲述能力，探索自己独特的人生经历和闪光点，使自己在申请过程中脱颖而出。

In TOEFL classes this week, G9 and G10 were working on writing section, which they need pay much effort to improve. For writing, practice is very important but more important is revising and editing. G11 had individualized tasks about reading, writing and they all reached the expectations.

在本周的托福课上，G9和G10正在学习写作部分，在这个单项上他们需要付出很大的努力才能提高。对于写作来说，练习很重要，但更重要的是修改和校对。G11在阅读、写作等方面都有个性化的学习任务，并且都达到了预期的效果。

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