BAISHAN AWS WEEKLY UPDATE - March 12, 2021

BAISHAN AWS WEEKLY UPDATE - March 12, 2021 白珊·安妮高中周讯  - 2021年3月12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

We celebrated our students this week at Baishan AWS. During the Thursday Talent Show and Semester 1 Academic Awards ceremony, we were able to reflect on our wonderful students. 

本周四我们进行了学生才艺展示暨第一学期学术颁奖典礼活动，表彰了我们优秀的学生。

In addition to the Semester 1 Most Improved and Academic Achievement Awards, our ceremony consisted of a social activity, two music performances . Ms. Jenn Roth asked the audience to interact with each other by challenging students and faculty to find other people who have met the listed activities in their life. Example include finding someone in the room who have taken dance lesson, played an instrument, and performed on stage. This was a great opportunity for the Baishan AWS students and faculty to interact with Tacoma AWS students and Baishan School 8th graders -- all while practicing their English language skills. 

除了表彰第一学期最具进步奖的学生和最高学术成就奖的学生外，我们在典礼上还开展了一次社交活动及两个才艺展示节目。Jenn Roth女士要求所有参加的师生，通过完成列表中的挑战来相互交流。例如，你需要在活动现场找到上过舞蹈课、演奏过乐器、在舞台上表演过的人。这是一个很好的相互认识和交流的机会，白珊·安妮高中的师生，美国塔科马安妮学校的学生和白珊学校国际部八年级的学生进行了很好的互动，同时也练习了学生们的英语语言技能。

Next was the announcement of the Most Improved academic awards. Several students made notable improvements since the beginning of school, many of whom improved in all of their subjects. 

之后我们宣布了学术进步奖项。自开学以来，有几个学生取得了显著的进步，其中有些学生的所有科目都有所提高。

Blue Ties Jessica, Mary, Rain, Tracy were next on stage with their song. Well done to these four students for their song and rap rendition of Death Bed.

接下来，蓝带纪晓雯，苑家瑞，刘庚雨和任籽妍在舞台上展示了他们的歌曲。这四位同学表演的说唱歌曲Death Bed非常精彩。

Students with the highest percentage in all of their classes were then recognized by their subject teachers. These students had the overall top score in each of their classes for Semester 1. 

每个学科老师都为所有班级中成绩最好的学生颁发了奖状，这些学生在第一学期的每门科目中都取得了总分最高的成绩。

The audience was then mesmerized by our guest student from Annie Wright School Tacoma Lily -- a Green Tie student who has joined us from our campus in Tacoma, USA. She dazzled the audience with her piano rendition of Blue Bird.

接下来观众们都被闫子乐所表演的钢琴演奏所折服。 闫子乐是美国塔科马安妮学校的学生，本学期加入了我们的行列，她的钢琴演奏的《蓝鸟》让观众目不暇接。

Lastly, the three students in each grade who had the top grade-point average for Semester 1 were recognized. Congratulations to Blue Tie Jessica Ji, Green Tie Max Sun, and Red Tie Billy Fan

最后，我们给每个年级学术成绩最高的学生颁发了奖励 。恭喜蓝带纪晓雯，绿带孙嘉良和红带樊易平

All students are encouraged to work hard in Semester 2. Baishan AWS will celebrate our students' accomplishments at the end of the academic year.

希望所有的学生在第二学期中继续努力学习。白珊·安妮高中将在学年末庆祝我们学生的成就。

Baishan AWS would like to thank the Baishan International 8th Graders and Advisors for joining us this week. 

非常感谢白珊学校国际部八年级的学生和班主任热情地参加我们的活动！

Green Ties Jordan and Jay learn more about each other during the Find Someone Who activity. 

绿带Jordan和Jay正在讨论Find Someone Who的活动

AWS Tacoma Red Tie Alice and Ms. Emilia Zheng learn more about each other during the Find Someone Who activity. 

塔科马安妮高中的Alice和Emilia老师正在沟通Find Someone Who的活动

Green Ties Henry, Max, and Jordan show off their awards. 绿带Henry, Max, and Jordan展示他们的学术成就

Red Tie Max and Ms. Helen Du Helen老师为红带Max颁发证书

Green Tie Alex and Ms. Helen Du Helen老师为绿带Alex颁发证书

Blue Tie Eden and Ms. Helen Du 蓝带Eden和Helen老师

Red Tie Billy and Ms. Emilia Zheng Emilia老师为红带Billy颁发证书

Tracy holds up her award with Mr. Brandt Mr. Brandt 为蓝带Tracy颁发证书

Red Tie Zoey holds up her award for Science 科学老师Richard为红带Zoey颁发证书

Green Tie Henry holds up his award for Physics. 物理课老师Richard为绿带Henry颁发证书

Blue Tie Rain holds up his award for Physics 物理课老师Richard为蓝带Rain颁发证书 

Blue Tie Jessica holds up her award for Art 艺术老师Mr. Brandt为蓝带Jessica颁发证书

Red Tie Tony holds up his award for Math with Mr. Ting Guo 数学老师Mr. Ting Guo为红带Tony颁发证书

Green Tie Henry holds up his award for Math with Mr. Ting Guo 数学老师Mr. Ting Guo为绿带Henry颁发证书

Blue Tie Tracy holds up her award for Math with Mr. Ting Guo 数学老师Mr. Ting Guo为蓝带Tracy颁发证书

Red Tie Billy holds up his award for Art with Mr. Brandt. Mr. Brandt为红带Billy颁发证书

Green Tie Henry holds up his award for Art with Mr. Brandt. Mr. Brandt为绿带Henry颁发证书

Blue Tie Eden holds up his award for Art with Mr. Brandt. 艺术老师Mr. Brandt为蓝带Eden颁发证书

Red Tie Zoey holds up her award for Humanities with Ms. Brauer 人文课老师Ms. Brauer为红带Zoey颁发证书

Red Tie Max holds up his award for Humanities with Ms. Brauer. 人文课老师Ms. Brauer为红带Max颁发证书

Blue Tie Eden holds up his award for Humanities with Ms. Brauer. 人文课老师Ms. Brauer为蓝带Eden颁发证书

Red Tie Max holds up his award for English Language Arts with Ms. Roth. 英语文学课老师Ms. Roth为红带Max颁发证书

Green Tie Jordan holds up his award for English Language Arts with Ms. Roth. 英语文学课老师Ms. Roth为绿带Jordon颁发证书

Visual Arts with Mr. Brandt 视觉艺术

Students interact with the representative from The School of Visual Arts - New York. 学生们与纽约视觉艺术学院的代表进行互动。

Our 10th Grade and Max R. were visited by the representative from School of Visual Arts - New York by Zoom. The first half of the virtual college visit was an overview of the art school, which helped our younger students gain a general understanding of possible studies. The second half of the college visit was a smaller group of students who were specifically interested in pursuing art after high school.

本周十年级的学生和十一年级的Max同学通过Zoom视频会议参加了来自纽约视觉艺术学院代表的讲座 。本次在线大学访问的前半部分对纽约视觉艺术学院进行了概述，让感兴趣的学生对这所学校有了一个大致的了解。大学访问的后半部分是一些对高中毕业后想追求艺术专业学生的问题解答。

These are the majors we are offering: 以下是纽约视觉艺术学院可以提供的专业

• ADVERTISING  广告设计
• ANIMATION 动画设计
• CARTOONING漫画设计
• COMPUTER ART 计算机艺术
• COMPUTER ANIMATION 计算机动画
• VISUAL EFFECTS 视觉艺术
• DESIGN 设计
• FILM 影视创作
• FINE ARTS 绘画
• ILLUSTRATION 插画
• INTERIOR DESIGN 室内设计
• PHOTOGRAPHY 摄影
• VISUAL & CRITICAL STUDIES 视觉与批判性研究

Students interested in pursuing Art after high school are encouraged to consider Summer Camp (Pre-college). Click for more information on the School of Visual Arts website. 对艺术感兴趣并打算高中以后追求艺术专业的学生可以考虑参加纽约视觉艺术学院的夏令营（大学预科）。

Green Tie Katherine completes her material study. 绿带Katherine正在研究绘画素材

All Art students are in the middle of their study part of their Comparative Study unit. Students will begin to have different needs based on their self-selected topics. Students are learning the important distinctions between primary sources and secondary sources. Whenever possible, the students should find sources to study that are in their real world -- the life they walk through and live in. Students who choose primary sources -- the items that they can see first-hand -- are more likely to be more expressive and unique. These qualities are fundamental to developing artists.

本周艺术课上学生们仍在进行比较研究这一单元的学习。学生将根据自己选择的主题开始进行个性的创作。学生们正在学习主要来源和次要来源之间的重要区别。学生们将尽可能找到真实世界里的创作来源——学生们正在经历的学习和生活。如果学生们能选择主要的生活来源——第一手的资料，他们的创作将更有表现力和独特性。这些品质是培养艺术家的基础。

Next week, students will be challenged to explore the limits of the materials. Students will study the interactions between paints and charcoal. They will study how to best use them in a way that meets that intentions, as defined in their assignment several weeks ago.

下周，学生们将探索绘画材料的局限性。学生将学习颜料和炭笔画之间的相互作用，并学习如何最好地使用这些工具展现他们的创作意图。

Humanities with Ms. Brauer 人文科学

In Grade 9 we’ve launched into our study of Human Geography! We started from the origin of the first humans and their earliest migrations, but are focusing this week on the birth of agriculture, a pivotal innovation of human existence. In what ways did agriculture benefit humans, and in what ways did it plant the seeds (wink wink) of some of our most intransigent problems and challenges?   本周九年级的学生开始学习人文地理课了！我们从第一批人类的起源和他们最早的迁徙开始学习。本周的重点是农业的诞生，这是人类生存的关键创新。农业以何种方式造福人类，又以何种方式为我们一些最顽固的问题和挑战播下了种子？

In our continuing study of the Age of Exploration and Disruption, our Grade 10/11 historians are applying their skills in figuring out author’s purpose, evaluating context, and assessing bias using both written and photographic primary sources from the colonial period in Africa. We’ve also discussed the triangle trade and the devastating impacts of the Atlantic slave trade this week. 本周10/11年级的历史学家们运用他们的技能，继续研究了探索与颠覆的时代，学生们通过分析一些非洲殖民时期的文字和摄影原始资料，找出作者的创作目的，评估了创作背景和资料里带有的偏见。本周我们还讨论了三角贸易和大西洋奴隶贸易的破坏性影响。

Our Grade 11 AP geographers are continuing their study of agriculture, examining the benefits and costs of the Green Revolution, and studying the massive global industry that modern commercial agriculture has become since. We used bananas as our commodity lens for examining economies of scale and international supply chains. Next up… chicken sandwiches!   本周11年级的AP地理学家们继续学习农业，研究绿色革命的收益和成本，以及现代商业农业如何成为庞大的全球产业。我们用香蕉作为商品透镜来考察了规模经济和国际供应链。接下来…鸡肉三明治！

Mathematics with Mr. Guo 数学

Grade 9 students started a new unit of study, Trigonometry. First, we reviewed simplifying square roots and Pythagorean Theorem. Then students learned to write sine, cosine, and tangent ratios and use trigonometric ratios to solve right triangles in applied problems.

九年级的学生开始了新单元三角函数的学习。首先我们回顾了简化平方根和勾股定理。然后学生们学会写正弦，余弦和正切比例，并使用三角比例来解决直角三角形中的问题。

Grade 10 students tried to describe and compare sets of data using the measure of central tendency. They learned two new measures of variation, variance and standard deviation, to show how much data values deviate from the mean.

十年级的学生尝试使用集中趋势的度量来描述和比较数据集。他们学习了两种新的变化量度（方差和标准差），用来展示和描述数据的偏离值。

Grade 11 students extended their knowledge in Counting Principle. They tackled harder questions in Permutation and Combination, which required careful thinking in logic. They also reviewed the multiplication rule and addition rule of probability.

十一年级的学生扩展了他们在计数原理方面的知识。他们解决了“排列和组合”中较难的问题，这些问题要求他们在逻辑。他们还回顾了概率的乘法规则和加法规则

Chinese Zhongkao with Mr. Zhan 中文

他说：书籍是人类进步的阶梯。

他说：我扑在书籍上，就像饥饿的人扑在面包上。

他还创造了一个令人震撼的艺术形象——海燕。

他就是苏联作家高尔基。本周，9年级的学生学习了他的散文诗《海燕》。通过学习，学生们理解了这篇散文诗在当时的时代背景下起到的鼓舞民众起来斗争的巨大作用，还理解了“象征”这种表现手法的效果。

He said: books are the ladder of human progress.   

He said: I throw myself on books like a hungry man on bread.   

He also created a shocking artistic image - the petrel.   

He was the Soviet writer Gorky. This week, the grade 9th studied his prose poem the petrel. Through the study, the students understand the great role of this prose poem in inspiring the people to fight against the background of the times, and also understand the effect of "symbol" as a means of expression.

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

This week in English students mostly collaborated or worked independently on projects intended to encourage a deeper understanding of the themes in our unit texts. After completing the reading of West Side Story, Blue Ties embarked on a project intended to explore how change is made through art. Each student reflected on a societal problem that resonated with them and began work on a painting, drawing, poem, short story, or short film that will draw attention to the problem in a unique way. Green Ties went back to The Complete Maus to examine themes, structure, and larger questions about how human beings behave toward one another when in conflict. The study will culminate in a Socratic Seminar next week. Red Ties continued work on their dystopian world building, as well as character and plot development for their upcoming short film. In Creative Writing, students finished writing the first draft of one scene "starring" the character they had created. Students were then able to provide peer feedback to each other using our rules that to be helpful, constructive feedback must be honest, specific, and kind. 

本周在英语语言文学课上，学生们进行了独立完成或者相互合作的课题，这些课题旨在鼓励学生们更深入地理解本单元课文中的主题。在读完戏剧《西区故事》后，九年级蓝带的学生们开始了一个旨在探索如何通过艺术实现改变的课题。每个学生都会思考一个能让他们产生共鸣的社会问题，并开始创作一幅绘画、素描、诗歌、短篇小说或短片，以独特的方式吸引人们对这个问题的关注。十年级绿带的学生们本周重点研究了漫画小说《鼠族》的主题、结构，以及关于人类在冲突中如何对待彼此的重要问题。学生们将在下周进行的苏格拉底式的研讨会上讨论并展示他们的研究成果。十一年级红带的学生们本周继续进行了反乌托邦世界的建设工作，并努力完成即将推出的关于人物和情节发展的短片。在创造性写作中，学生们完成了一个场景的初稿，“主演”了他们所创造的人物。然后，学生们通过相互评价获得反馈，规则是：学生们的评价反馈要有帮助，有建设性，必须是诚实的、具体的和友好的。

Chinese Literature & Culture with Ms. Emilia 中国文学

Based on the study of the development process and teaching characteristics of education in different periods, this week the grade10th students studied and discussed different educational viewpoints and teaching methods, such as "Teaching without distinction", "Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and "Life is education". The students shared their own views and opinions, found out the advantages and disadvantages through comparative analysis, and had a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding of "education".

基于对不同时期教育发展历程和教学特色的学习，本周我们对不同的教育观点和教学方法进行了研究探讨，比如“有教无类”、“因材施教”和“生活即教育”等。同学们分享了各自的观点和看法，对比分析找出其中的优点和不足，对“教育”也有了更深入全面的认知。

In the Chinese class of Grade 11, we began to learn complex sentences this week, including the concept of complex sentences, the classification criteria of complex sentences and 10 different types of complex sentences with related words. In addition, for the writing exercise, we start with the analysis and comments of current hot news, learn how to logically build the framework of writing, and initially write the outline of the article.

11年级的中文课，本周开始学习复句，包括复句的概念、复句分类标准以及10种不同类型的的关联词复句。同时，本学期的写作专项练习，我们从时事热点新闻的剖析点评着手，学习如何有逻辑地搭建写作的框架，并初步写出文章的提纲。

Physical and Health Education with Coach Faamamafa 体育

Green Tie Max in PE class. 绿带Max在上体育课

This week we continue on our climbing task, Let the students work in their own group and tried make it to the top of the climbing wall. Most students were able to make it to the top and also they have learned quicker than I thought. They have also learned how to crap using their fingers. They learned how to make sure that is safe to climb and belaying the person, students showed their team work by working together to make sure the protection of the climber by putting more weights on the belaying side. It was a great experience for the students and hope they will start developing climbing and continue doing on the mountain one day. 本周体育课上，学生们继续学习了攀岩，学生们通过小组合作努力爬到攀岩墙的顶端。大多数学生都能达到顶峰，而且学生的学习速度比我想象的要快。学生们学会了用手指，并学习了如何确保安全攀爬和保护其他人员。在活动中，学生们通过团队合作，增加保护侧的重量来保护攀岩者。这对学生们来说是一次很好的经历，希望学生们将来可以继续学习并能在山上进行攀岩。 

Physics with Mr. Kytle 物理

Greetings! 大家好

There are a couple of interesting things happening in Physics. The first project we completed was a look at Physical Forces, which I mentioned last week. The students were given a chance to test their knowledge and get some fresh air by competing in a paper airplane challenge. I am happy to announce that Katherine won the competition by having her airplane fly the farthest. I have added some pictures below for reference. 

本周物理课上发生了一些有趣的事情。我们完成的第一个项目是研究物理力，我上周提到过。学生们有机会通过参加纸飞机挑战赛来测试他们所学的知识，并可以到户外呼吸新鲜空气 。我很高兴地宣布，Katherine赢得了比赛，她的飞机飞得最远。请参考以下图片。

The next part of this Unit, I am having the student complete a Physics challenge. It is the same Physics challenge I had to complete when I was in High School. The students are given a ball and a grid of paper on the wall. The students have to get the ball from the top left corner to the bottom right corner in at a minimum, one minute. That is, the ball must take at least one minute to get from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. I have added a preliminary photo below with more to come next week. 

在本单元的下一部分，我将让学生们完成一个物理挑战。这和我高中时必须完成的物理挑战是一样的，实验需要一个球和一张贴在墙上的纸。学生们必须在最短一分钟的时间内把球从左上角拿到右下角。也就是说，球从左上角到右下角至少需要一分钟。 请参考以下初步实验的图片，下周将会有更多精彩图片。

This explains the Physics behind flight and how we can do a simple demonstration to observe these forces. 

这张图片解释了飞行背后的物理现象，以及我们如何通过一个简单的演示来观察这些力。

Justin getting into the idea and project. Justin 正在参与课堂项目

Katherine with her super airplane! Katherine 和她的超级飞机！ 

Everyone is lined up and ready to throw! 所有人都排好队准备比赛！

Chemistry with Ms. Jiajia 化学课

This week, students were focusing on Kinetics including Collision Theory and Model, Reaction rates and Reaction law. Chemical reactions can occur at significantly different speeds or rates. For example, rusting is a very slow reaction that may take place over many years, but a chemical reaction as part of an explosion may take place within just fractions of a second. The rate of a reaction can be determined by either monitoring the change (decrease) in concentration of reactants over time, or alternatively, monitoring the change (increase) in concentration of products over time. 

本周，学生们重点学习动力学，包括碰撞理论与碰撞模型，反应速率与反应定律。化学反应可以，以明显不同的速度或速率发生。例如，生锈是一种非常缓慢的反应，可能会发生很多年，但作为爆炸一部分的化学反应可能只在几秒钟内发生。反应速率可通过监测反应物浓度随时间的变化（减少）或监测产物浓度随时间的变化（增加）来确定。

Students were trying to build on explanations and representations by constructing and describing rate laws consistent with experimental evidence.

学生们试图通过构建和描述符合实验证据的速率定律来进行解释和表征。

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

This week, G10s and G11s updated information on SCOIR, including activities and achievements. Some students have many talents and interests, but they felt reluctant when writing them down. The reason is that they said hadn't got any award. Actually, students are encouraged to write down every activity in which they have participated in high school to prove to the American universities that they are well-rounded students, not those who just focus on academics. Also, application requirements are flexible. Don't be too results-oriented. Interest and passion in one particular area can be proven by persistency and consistency.

Speaking of personal essay, G11 started writing the first draft and G10 began choosing the topic and writing a passage with 200-250 words.

本周，10年级和11年级更新了关于SCOIR的信息，包括活动和取得的比赛成绩等。一些学生有很多天赋和兴趣，但是他们在写的时候很不情愿到SCOIR里面。原因是他们说没有得到任何奖项。实际上，我们鼓励学生写下他们在高中所参加的每一项活动，向美国大学证明他们是全面发展的学生，而不是那些只专注于学术的学生。此外，大学申请要求是灵活的。不要太以结果为导向。对某一特定领域的兴趣和激情可以通过坚持不懈和始终如一来证明。

个人陈述方面，G11已经开始写初稿，G10开始选题目，写一篇200-250字的短文。

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