Outline

1. Intro
2. Strength
3. Weakness
4. Piece 1 process
5. Piece 2 process
6. Piece 3
7. Conclusion

thesis

In the writing class this year, I became a better writer by improving the writing efficiency, having less grammar mistakes, and having a better organization of my essays.

Bone Chiller – Who is the killer?

The Spring Theatre came to students in Cheshire Academy last Thursday, and I went to see it as a required task in both my Writing and English class. Actually, I wasn’t that unhappy to be required to watch the play, I remembered the one this winter was so fun. This time, the theatre group brought us a thrilling one, Bone Chiller. In winter, “the 25 annual spelling bee” was fantastic and I still can remember most details of the show, so I looked for the coming up presenting of Bone Chiller for a while. After finishing it, I found the show was fun. I would like to see the plays like this for next year if it’s possible.

13 people gathered together for fixing the strange will that Josiah Travers left for them. The will wasn’t normal that it was a rebus, which is a kind of puzzle that waited the others to fix. In the rebus, the 13 peoples found out it contained the information of where his money in and who was or were the people that killed him. Basing on the logical inference of Jerry, the thirteen people finally find out a killer between the 13 people. In the progress of inference, the butler, who usually been thought as the first people to doubt as the killer, died. And finally, after a heart-stopping progress, they defined the lawyer, Addie, and a “policeman” as the killer. Then, the whole play ended successfully.

As I have already said, I like the whole play, but it was a little bit confused. There are 13 characters, and all of them were main characters. When the teacher told me about the basic information of the play, I didn’t mark that as a big deal, but in the play, I quickly found that each of them have an important role. Thus, during the play, there were thousands of times that I used the dark like to check in my little sheet of introduction of the play to see who was the person on the stage. Fortunately, it helped me to fix my face blindness totally, and I even don’t have any problems with miss identifying during writing this blog.

Otherwise, the play was tremendous that each character was acting well. When I found that the cook was hanged in the closet, I was scared as the actors did. When I found that Addie, the lawyer might be the killer, I was thrilled as the actors did. My mind was moved with the characters on the stage. I was thought about who the killer was for the whole time, just like what everyone who seen the play might do. The inference was so brilliant that when I heard the one about the last Sunday of October, I even wanted to clap for the whole theatre group. They seemed like they made all the characters alive.

Admittedly, it was another excellent show that the school theatre group brought to the students. I wish too see some more great works next year! Also, I would like to appreciate and recommend the whole play for the others as well.

Final portfolio

The ones I would choose are:
1. The start of my 30 day challenge
2. Reading should be precious
3. An unexpected but understandable hero
4. Literature in movie version and book version
5. The ending but more than just an ending
For the final portfolio, I would like to add some details to the events I wrote. I might not focus too much on the plots of the book I had chose in the 30-day challenge. For example in the second one, I would add more about my expression and how I felt when I found the book was boring. And I would connect the event I had said and my feeling better. There were many grammar mistakes in these blog posts, so I would fix them. And I might delete a few things about the plot in the posts that told about some personal experiences. But in the posts that related to the plots and characters, I would tell more about my personal opinions. Also, I would make the structure of the posts more clear.

The ending but more than just an ending

I thought I would feel great when the 30-day challenge ends, but I didn’t. I thought I would feel so relaxed when I wouldn’t need to focus on the boring plots anymore, but I didn’t. I thought I would feel happy everyday when I wouldn’t need to rack my brain to find topics to write three times a week, but I didn’t. Actually, I found something had lost from my body when I went to check the book I read in the challenge, and it was finished; I found something was empty when I turned on my laptop and prepared to write a new blog, but there was nothing to write about; I felt bored by having nothing to do these nights, but I just automatically left that time period alone. Then I new that, the ending of this challenge wasn’t just an end, lots of new things, new challenges, might start soon.

In the 30 day challenge, I read two chapters of Emma, which was a classic written by Jane Austen. I have complained for thousands of times about how slow the plots went through and how boring were the characters in the book. There were only parties, balls and meetings in each house for those characters to spend their spare time all over the book. I have complained for thousands of times about how many things I had to do everyday. Even in my second post, I already started to complain, “How can you imagine that I have to read 2 chapters of Emma and there were a 500 words blog waiting for me?” after “my whole day of full of classes, the golf practice for more than an hour and the long and boring sit down dinner” (The Second Post). It was so hard to read and write in these days, and it seemed still hard even the 30-day challenged had already rang the bell of ending. However, I was so proud of myself that there wasn’t one second that I wanted to give up!

I would say that the blog posts drained my energy and time. They might not be the best works of the whole year in the writing class, but I’m sure that they were the ones I put all my efforts on. I still remembered each time I sat next to my laptop and thought about the topics that I could write painfully. It was funny that when I found something interesting in the book during the challenge, the first thing came up to my mind was how lucky I! If there were lots of events happened in a chapter, I would try to leave something for the next day. Actually, I seldom saw any chapters with more than one big event. There was a day when the challenges were half finished; the teacher asked me if I could fill the blogs with better ideas. It’s hard to forget that how graceful I was when she told me some possible topics of the blog. Thus, these blogs exerted my utmost effort; they were the result of my hard work, and it would prove my perseverance.

Well, I knew people would ask why I was always complaining about how exhausting and terrible the 30-day challenge was. However, that was the way I remembered things. Without any suffering, I could not have any improvement. I have said it was difficult, but I still finished the difficult task, that I thought I could never reach it before. I knew how I recognized and appreciate myself after the 30-day challenge. I have learned and earned lots of skills and knowledge in this simple challenge. It was the first time that I read a classic in English, which wasn’t my native language. By continuing reading the book every day, I have learned many kinds to write descriptions, details and foreshadowing. I couldn’t imagine how my writing skills improved in the everyday writings and trainings. It was a hard task for me to write 500 words before, but it doesn't matter now. The challenge helped me to know how important to keep doing one thing that the result of success seemed so sweet to collect.

Finally, the 30-day challenge on reading a book and writing blogs ended, maybe not perfectly, but at least joyfully and successfully. However, as what I have just said, it was only the challenge on reading a book, and it wasn’t the ending. People’s lives were always full of challenges, and I should keep working. By noticing the ending of my “dear reading tasks”, I truly should find some other fun, or maybe challengeable things to satisfy my mind, which accidently started to feel excited. Next time, I might try to cook different foods every day; I might go to weight room every day to lose weight; or I might try to write a novel for a challenge. My future is multiple, I can see the start of the new challenge already.

Citation:

“The Second Post." Cherrie's Blog. N.p., 14 Apr. 15. Web. 12 May 2015.

Blog post 11 - Literature in movie version and book version

As I finished the reading of Emma, I decided to watch the movie of Emma, which was established in 1996. I wanted to watch it since I first read Emma, but I didn’t want it spoiler the up coming plots. As I have already said, I had just found out who the hero of this book was at the start of this week. Thus, I restrained my curiosity and left the movie for the last. Then, I think in the movie, the plots, the emotions of characters, and all the details were showed perfectly. Actually, the movie helped me a lot to understand the book better.

The language in the book was kind of difficult, because Jane Austen, who lived hundreds of years before me, wrote it. Also, English isn’t my native language, so the old version of English would be even harder. Also, Emma was one of the last few works of Jane Austen. In my perspective, writing slower or writing more detailed might comfort her mind. I truly should apology for my disrespectful on this great writer, but that was the only way I could say why she made the plot so slow. However, after I have seen the movie, the problems were all solved. The movie only took about 2 hours and 10 minutes, but it showed everything appeared in the book. I can see people’s emotion easier from the movie by their facial expression.

In the movie, I finally found the entangle feeling that Emma had when she faced Jane. Actually I didn’t know why she was so mean to Jane and her aunts usually, and I think the author didn’t tell enough details about their relationship. However, in the movie, I knew that Emma was kind of jealous her. Jane’s aunt always couldn’t stop talking about how great Jane was and it made Emma felt jealous. The book was written in Emma’s perspective, even though it’s in the third person. Thus she wasn’t that reliable that we can really watch things from her sight, she was young, naïve and kind of granted with everything in her life. She wouldn’t tell all her feeling in the book, so I couldn’t know that happened. But in the movie, I could see her complex emotion in her face. I knew that something strange was just made Emma, Frank Churchill and Jane related from the movie. As a result, the movie version gave me a more profound impression of the whole story line.

On the other hand, the movie was so beautiful! It was truly beautiful! When I see the dance party, the ball, in the movie, I saw Emma and Mr. Knightley’s dance. It reminded me the dancing between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice; I always thought the dancing between young couples were so cute, although there haven’t been couples at that time. I can even see Mr. Knightley’s love to Emma from his eyes. In the movie, I saw lots of things showed his love, but I cannot find anything from the book. Overall, it was a splendid and perfect thing to see their dancing and communication.

Overall, my dear reading task was already finished, and I finally got the details and the complete plots and ideas of the book from the movie. The 30-day challenge helped me a lot. I wish I would always make a good job on everything that I would do.

A sweet experience is coming!

Do you like ice cream? I love it so much! For people who love ice cream, they must know Ben and Jerry's! It’s “an American dairy company, founded in Burlington, Vermont that operates internationally, with interests in food processing, it is a division of the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products (Wikipedia). The ice creams are always a sweet and cool dream in everybody’s childhood lives.

I have eaten Ben and Jerry's ice cream since the first time that I came to the US. However it’s the first time that I knew Jeff Furman, “the Chairman of the Independent Board of Directors for Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream” was graduated in Cheshire Academy, which is the high school I studied in for now (A sweet commencement treat)! Surprisingly, the school would invite Jeff Furman to our school graduation ceremony this year, and it would give students a sweet experience with ice cream (Buchanan). I’m sure that everybody would have a great time during the graduation ceremony.

In my perspective, it’s admirable that an upperclassman of my school was such a successful student. In his introduction, I found that he was always planning for the company that could help the company to improved, and found a non-profit foundation to help the poor states after he had been success (Meet the staff and trustees). It’s hard for people think a lot for the others instead of only working or earning money. Jeff Furman was rich, and meanwhile he was also generous. As our head of school has said, “Jeff’s dedication to corporate social responsibility is part of why I asked him to speak at commencement” (Buchanan). His spirit and his experience would influence all the students in Cheshire Academy. I was kind of looking forward to the speech that he would give us.

On the other hand, the seniors are graduating from Cheshire Academy at the end of this month. They, or maybe including those of us who are still young, should know about their following life, not just their college, but also the life when they truly get into the society. Students will need to find their work and think about their future. Even though our seniors, or us are excellent, it won’t be too easy to get that successful. Not everybody is lucky; Furman’s business has started by being a bus drive for Ben and Jerry's

ice cream after graduated from learning business and receiving law degree in New York University (A sweet commencement treat). In my perspective, it should be his hard work and continuously thinking of ideas helped the company to grow until now. Students should learn from his experience. We should know that it’s important to be hard working; if there aren’t lots of opportunities, we should at least try our best to make every thing better than.

Lastly, let’s welcome Jeff Furman’s coming once again! I wish everybody in our school would have a great, unforgettable graduation ceremony this year!

Citation:

"A Sweet Commencement Treat." Cheshire Academy Home Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.

http://www.cheshireacademy.org/page/News-Detail?pk=973582&fromId=206150

Buchanan, Jesse. "Ben & Jerry's Official to Give Commencement for Cheshire Academy." MyRecordJournal.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://www.myrecordjournal.com/news/latestnews/7199843-129/ben-jerrys-official-to-give-commencement-for-cheshire-academy.html

"Ben & Jerry's." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry's

"Meet the Staff and Trustees." Ben & Jerry's Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015.

http://benandjerrysfoundation.org/who-we-are.html