Review: Life of Galileo by the Varsity Players.

People do not always believe the truth, but they believe what they want to.

The play Life of Galileo, by the Varsity players at Cheshire Academy, was played at the Fieldhouse in the black box. It was about the life of Galileo, starting with the invention of the telescope and ending with his captivity and most likely included his death. Mr. Anderson directed the play and Galileo, the main character, was played by Charlotte Leser. The decor of the stage was kept simple so that the audience were focused on the play. The play was two hours long with a ten minutes intermission. It showed the audience that people tend to believe things that they want to believe even if they know that they are wrong. Especially this behaviour was demonstrated between the church and the sience.

The actors did a great job and you could empathize in the role of them. Also the costumes were matching with the atmosphere. Thats why you believed that the play were played hundrets of years ago. Furthermore the stress of the spoken script were really emotional and appealing. In particular the role of Galileo impressed me. Even if the role was played by a girl, the perfomence was really convincing. Also the stage crew worked fast and the different stages were build up quickly and without a big interruption, so that you could follow the play perfectly. No actor forgot his text so that you knew that they worked together well. I especially liked the plot and the idea behind the play. The play showed you that the people tend to believe things that they like or want to believe, and not always what is true or scientifically proven. This was a big fact in the play and the reason why Galileo get captured and mocked. He invented many things and established and proved many theories, for example that the earth is a round planet and not a "disk". Even if he showed the church and the people that it is true, they did not want to believe this, because it invert and changed the view of the people. The church was worried about the fact that the person start to question the whole religion and way of thinking. This would cause a big restlessness what would not be good for the government. Therefore Galileo get isolated from the civilization. Only some scientists believed him and worked with him. A good example for this was at the end of the play were a little kid insult a woman behind a window as a witch. After this a scientist lifted him up to the window and showed him that it was a normal woman. Nevertheless the little kid still wanted to believe that it was a witch because it is more fun and more exciting. This example reflected the whole discussion between the church and Galileo. He also showed them the truth about the earth, but they still did not want to believe him. 

All in all the play was very entertaining and also a kind of teaching about the way how poeple think and believe. The actors did a great job with their roles and made it good to watch especially with the help of the stage crew and the technical directions. The contect of the play was exciting and convincing. All in all the Varsity Players did a great perfomence with the play Life of Galileo.



 

Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was born in 10 February 1898 and died at 14 August 1956. He was a German playwright , Marxist poet and theater director. Brecht lived in the comfortable middle class. His mother were protestant and his father were catholic. As he was 16, the first world war broke out. He started to write newspaper articles and people started to know him under the name Bert Brecht. In July 1919, Bertolt Brecht had a son with  Paula Banholzer. Fearing persecution, Bert left Germany in February 1933, when Hitler took power, and moved to Denmark. During the war years, Brecht published his most famous plays like Life of Galileo. With this plays he expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements. Finally Brecht died on 14 August 1956 of a hearth attack when he was 58 years old. He is buried in Berlin. He was one of the most famous playwright in the whole world and nowadays his plays are still performed by many famous people. Brecht improved the whole view of dramas and plays, so that he will always be one of the best playwright in the world. Also many of his plays got translated into other languages like English. 

Life of Galileo

The play Life of Galileo is played by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht who lived in the twentieth-century. There are two versions of the play. The first one was published in Zurich, a German city and the second version is in English and was published in Los Angeles.
The play is about the life of Galileo, who found out that the world is a round planet. He was a famous scientist who invented many useful things. Also many theories were invented from Galileo. Therefor he often got in trouble with the government, because he disrespected the believes of the church and other parts of the community. This caused the fact that the citizen got scared and out of control. Therefore the government finally killed Galileo Galilee. The life of Galileo Galilee is a really important event but at the same time a really sad and dramatic event. This is an important point why the life of Galileo get played in the Theater. His life was and still is a important event in the human history. It was a big step forward in the science and in the believes of the world and how the world is build up. Galileo died in December of 1641.

Easy ways to lose the homework

Dear Mr. Kobo 

I'm sorry that I lost my homework today but it seemed like god didn't want me to finish it. 

Everything started 3 days ago. I had a long study hall with lots of homework, so that I fell asleep on my desk. Before this I had already finished the homework assignment. Unfortunately nobody woke me up before lights out, and I slept the whole night. Suddenly the fire alarm in VDP was switched on. A terrible noise banged into my ears. Immediately I stood up and pressed the delete button on my iPad by mistake.The homework assignment had been deleted. On the next day I was confident to start the assignment again. This time I had much work during study hall, 20 test and 10 quizzes, so that I decided to do it in the morning before class. I woke up as my alarm clock rang. After I had started to open the assignment, the fire alarm rung again. We all had to run out of the building....There was no chance to keep working on the homework. Today I hurt my hand during tennis so that I had problems with writing. However, this would never be a reason for me to skip the homework. With pain and screaming I finally finished the homework. I was sure that you would be proud of me, so I decided to go downstairs and show you my brilliant work. On the way to your room Mr. Mac Donald and his dog came to me. Surprisingly his dog was able to jump really high and before I even noticed he had ripped my homework out of my hands. After a short period of time the homework was completely eaten. And all this in front of your door. 

I hope you appreciate my efforts, and I also hope that the dog will get an "F" for this assignment and not Me.

Getting closer to the dream of being a good writer

At the beginning of the school year there were many things that I wanted to improve. I set many different goals. One of them is improving my english speaking and writing skills. Also, I want to become more independent and confident when I speak english. Overall, my goals should make me able to study in the United States.
First of  all, my english language skills get improved in generall because of the new environment where you have to communicate in english. Even if you would prefer to speak your native language, you have to speak english for people to understand you. Only because of this condition many improvements are caused.
But speaking is just one part of master the english language. The other important part is the writing.
I joined the "Writing and Composition" class for improving my writing.
Also in this area of writing improvements are developed. These are caused by different aspects.
The first thing that improved my writing skills is the writing of Blogs. You have to write every week a blog about a speacial theme, no matter if you want to or not. This let you become familiar with writing.
Another thing that improves your writing are the grammar quizzes in the class. Through this Quizzes, you improve your grammar and make fewer mistakes.
Furthermore the fact that you are writing many essays, stories, Blogs and other kinds of writing improve your english in general. With this class you are facing many challanges that improve your writing skills.
However, the most important thing is that you live in a community, also in the english class, where you have to speak a languange that unites everyone and that make you able to understand eachother. Thats why I chose my picture. This picture shows a community. Even if everybody comes from somewhere else, you live together and communicate together. This is the biggest aspects that let you improve your english skills and let you be a good writer.
You have to get on with your community and to respect eachother, because thats the base of a community so that you can learn something and get along with other people. You only can make friends when you are friendly and respectful, and friends are the condition of communication and finally to improve your english skills. We and Cheshire Academy are a community who have to respect eachother and live in peace with eachother. We are a big international school and have the responsibility that every student feel safe and is able to learn english and improve his english language skills.
As same as I want to improve my english skills, there are many other students who have the same goal. This is an important reason why you should try to make friends and have a nice time at cheshire academy and also improve your english. Everything on this school refers to community, wether it is about learning english or something else. So let us work together and make the life in cheshire academy even better.
 

Grammar project handout

Top 5 confusing words :

accept and except

To accept means to receive or agree to something, while except means excluding.

Every day and everyday 

Every day means each day. You do something every single day. everyday is an adjective that means common place or normal. 

Fewer and less

Fewer is used for individual units, numbers

Less is used for general quantities

That and which 

That is used to introduce a phrase or clause essential to the meaning of the sentence; not set off by commas

Which is used to refer to a specific noun or pronoun and to introduce a usually set off by commas

Advice and advise 

Advice is an opinion, counsel 

To advise means to counsel. 

Examples: 

I will accept the invitation to the party, but my best friend except it.

I go out with the dog every day. This is a dress for everyday.

You will have to make fewer mistakes. The amount of the money in our bank is less then it was last year.

The shipment that arrived yesterday had to be returned. We ate 15 doughnuts, which was too much.

I can give you an advice. My friend can advise you.

Philipp Jessen 

Blog#5

Small moments with a big moral!

How difficult is it to write a good story about your significiant moment and analyze it? The answer is that it´s not easy. You have to think about many details and explain them clearly. Furthermore it is really challenging to find and explain the lesson that you learned from this moment. This has to be done exactly and the reader has to be able to relate to it.
According to my oppinion the hardest part of this writing is the analyze. There are many reasons that underline this.
First of all the analyze is the part where you have to understand and realize the whole essay. You have to expain how the events in the essay have impact on your personality and what you learned from the events. This is a tough task to accomplish.
Another reason is that the analyze is the longest part of the essay, so that you have to spend much time on it and think about what you will write in it. Concentration on the details from the story is necessary to reach the length. Nontheless you still have to focus on the important things and don´t use unimportant things for your analyze.
The most important thing that makes the analyze to the most challenging part is that you have to find the moral that you have learned from the story and explain how you came up with the idea.
For example I had to find out that riscant events like the water jump improve your self confidence and independence. This can get explained by the fact that you overcome yourself and find out a new and better side of yourself.
The analyze has to make readers understand your opinion and your results that you thought about. Therefor many arguments and logical conclusions has to be used. Summarizing the analyze is the part where you have to think the most and to write logical. This is for many people and also for me a really hard work.
Another reason why the analyze is the most difficult part in an essay is because you have to understand what you are writing or what you are reading for creating the analyze. Otherwise the analyze would be wrong or not focused on the theme and the story. 
All in all a good essay has not only a good analyze but also a nice introduction, a story and a conclusion. Important is that these three parts have to fit to eachother and a fluently connection should be created. This let the reader feel confortable while reading and he can focus on the main ideas in the essay. It can be really hard to create a good connection between the different parts in an essay, but there are some things which can help. For example you can use many connectionswords like "Furthermore" and "Also".
In an good analyze you have to think about all these facts and use them correctly. That is why the analyze is the most challenging part for me and probably for many other people too.