During the Art Festival of GCA, our class acted the play Snow White. It was just one of many performances of many classes. Students did not spend much time practicing or work very hard. However, there was an elite team. It came to us from the Drama Club. While other teams all showed the performance for less than 20 minutes in the afternoon, the team from drama club showed us only one play which was over 1 and half hours on the evening in GCA. A huge drama – “The Taming of the Shrew” was coming.
The original work of “The Taming of the Shrew” is a comedy written by William Shakespeare, a great author of Britain. It is about the two marriages of two sisters who are almost perfectly different from each other and their changes.
The show was held in the hall on the third floor of the cafeteria, and started at 7 p.m. on December 19th, 2008. However, there were some happenings, so I arrived at the hall about 7:30 p.m. I grieved to that. Almost every student and every teacher of GCA came to watch the show.
I read “The Taming of the Shrew” as a book, so I knew the story of it. However, I had thought I could get another feeling if I watch it as a play, and it was right. When I read the book, I could not feel that it was a comedy, but I felt funny when I watched it. It was interesting with the eminent acting of actors and actresses. They were not professional actors or actresses, but they were professional.

Some works in Grade 10

English work:

Art work:




Science work:

Mandarin work:

Planning work:

Math work:

P.E work:

Social Study:

Others:

The funny, but little childish Snow White

The Art Festival of NFLS and GCA was held at the end of December, 2008. Every class should have at least one performance to show others. After the long time of discussion among classmates, we decided to present a play which I did not like very much – our class’s own version of Snow White.

On the cafeteria of our school, there is an assembly hall. (I did not know that when I started to go to the school first.) All of the performances – not only GCA’s ones, but also NFLS’s ones – should be showed there.

Because of my introspective character, I do not like taking a public performance; so of course, I do not want to play the leading part of the performance, too. I played the role of hunter – one of the supporting actor of the story – who was ordered to kill Snow White by the queen, but let her run away. The person who is on the left side of the small picture is me. This scene is the part that the hunter comes to kill Snow White and Snow White asks the hunter to let her go.

Generally, I do not like this performance. It was not serious enough or funny enough; it was half-done. Also, I thought it was little childish. We are Grade 10 now. How do we still play children’s tales? Third, the preparation for the show was too little. For example, the gun which I have in the small picture is a gun made by a team when we did the Happy Trash project, and then, there were only two clothes for the queen and Snow White; most of us wore our own clothes. I hope we can improve the conditions when we take part in the nest Art Festival.

Teaching primary students

This is the picture of the classroom where Ms.Bartell, our planning class teacher, took our class to teach students.


Here is the picture of me and my student, and another picture of my friend and his student. (The picture on the other one is mine.) It was hard to teach them. First, they had studied the part which we taught, so they did not really want to listen to us. Second, the game was included by the content and students all wanted to play. I learned the teachers' work was hard.