E-Concussion

Below are the procedure of 3/26, please check it:

7:30~7:45 Vocabulary of Clothes.
7:45~7:55 Be a painter
7:55~8:25 Sharing time
8:25~8:35 Take a rest

8:35-9:35 Please prepare your part of the orphanage activity
About the english teaching part,please also prepare the materials you will use in the teaching and practice in the 2nd hour.

we will do:
1.English teaching rehearsal
2.Name card (please make a nick name of yourselves,Chinese is fine.)
3.Trivia of orphanage



Looking forward to see you,
Amy & Carey

Vocabularies

crumble (v): break apart into pieces
torture (n): severe physical or mental suffering
intention (n): a plan or desire to do sth.
the shakes (n): nervous shaking of your body caused by fear, illness, etc.
nasty (n): unpleasant, bad
size of drinks: small/medium/large=tall/grande/venti (Starbucks)
woodwork (n): the parts of a house or a room that are made of wood
paperpusher (n): a person whose work is simple and boring, dealing with paperworks
drag (n): sth. or someone is boring
lock in (v): secure, get, achieve
land (v): (informal usage) get
hit off (v): like each other as soon as 2 people meet
the lowdown (n): the most important facts about sth.
compatible (a): suitable
downer (n): a person or situation that stops you feeling happy; 鎮靜劑
overzealous (a): too eager about sth. you believe in strongly
catch (n): someone who is a good person to have relationship with
pair off=pair up with 與…配成一對

Reading: "Creator of Peanuts"

Charles Schulz
(26/11/1922 - 12/02/2000, USA)
Charles Schulz, the creator of 'Peanuts', is one of the most popular and influential humorist comic artists ever. After he fought in Europe in the second World War, he started drawing the comic 'L'il Folks', a precursor of 'Peanuts'. Soon the United Feature Syndicate bought his stories and sold them to many newspapers. Then it was renamed 'Peanuts' (1950). The main characters are the melancholy Charlie Brown and his clever dog Snoopy, who live in a suburb together with other kids who all have their peculiar personalities.
Umberto Eco described 'Peanuts' in an introduction of a book:
"These children affect us because they're monsters. They are the monstrous, infantile reductions of all the neuroses of modern citizens of the industrial civilization."
While his strip deals in psychology, social commentary and often bitter humor, its hallmark is its perspective: all these issues experienced, evaluated, and ultimately decided upon by children. "There is a market for innocence" says Schulz, whose discipline still drives him to his studio every day "to get feelings of depth and roundness, and (to know) the pen line is the best pen line you can make...I don't think I'm a true artist. I would love to be Andrew Wyeth or Picasso...But I can draw pretty well and I can write pretty well, and I think I'm doing the best with whatever abilities I have been given. And what more can one ask?"

The most successful comic strip in newspaper history, 'Peanuts' appeared in some 2,600 newspaper in 75 countries and was translated into 21 languages. It also published more than 1,400 books. United Feature Syndicate started the strip in syndication on October 2, 1950. 'Peanuts' has sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.
Schulz was still working on new material between golf-matches until he retired at the beginning of the new millennium. He died of complications due to colon cancer at the age of 77 in Santa Rosa, California on February 12, 2000. He will be missed, but his lovable comic characters will live on in our memories.
On June 7, 2001, Charles Schulz was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States.




We also created ourown comics by filling the dialogues and drawing the ending!

Vocabulary:

Influential adj.有影響力的
Precursor n.前身;前輩
Syndicate n.報業聯盟
Melancholy adj.憂鬱的
Clever adj.聰明伶俐的
Peculiar adj.怪癖的,特殊的
monstrous adj.像野獸的
infantile adj.幼稚的;嬰兒的
reduction n.縮影;縮版
neuroses = neurosis
n.神經病;精神官能症
psychology n.心理學 n.善解人意
commentary n.評論;紀實
perspective n.觀點;洞察力
innocence n.純真
roundness n.直率;球型;整數
millennium n.千禧年
complication n.併發症;複雜
posthumously adv.死後地
congressional adj.美國國會的

Hello guys,

Joyce & Peggy are hostesses this week, the schedule is as following:

19:30-20:00 Reading:Blind Dates
20:00-20:30 Games:Killer;King's game
20:30-20:35 Breaktime
20:35-21:35 Run the orphanage schedule

Please prepare your part of the orphanage activity, we will run how to teach "you are my sunshine" this time. And about the english teaching part,please also prepare the materials you will use in the teaching and practice in the 2nd hour.

See you on Wed,
Joyce & Peggy

There once was a girl named Jen
She was looking for a blue jean
wow,how can I buy it
wow,I want to take it
Jen went out with her blue jean



Here is the tale of John
who was wearing a crown
a golden crown with diamand
It is nice, come from Iceland
John wears it when he shown

Comic

This Time we are going to be a comic creator.
Please come with your creativeness and humor!!

Schedule:
7:30 ~ 7:45 Reading -A great comic creator
7:45 ~ 8:05 Creation -Try to fill the dialogues and Create the ending by yourself
8:05 ~ 8:25 Presentation

8:25 ~ 8:35 Take a break
8:35 ~ 9:30 Discuss the Ophanage Plan

Have a nice week!!

James