Science Entry
DVDs

In science class we are studying many things, also electronics. We studied computers and all the things related to them. We also studies DVDs... Everyone uses DVDs but not many people know what they actually are and how they work.
DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc. It can be used to store data such as movies.
But how do DVDs actually work? In DVDs data is stored in small indentations and flats backed up by a reflective material.
When you insert a DVD in a DVD player, a mechanism inside the DVD player spins the disc and another one guides a laser beam that shines on the indentations and flats. The light patters are then “reflected” and read by an optical device that coverts the patters in tiny pieces of data which are called “bits”. These “bits” are then transformed in bytes that can represent data such videos, sounds etc.

ITALIAN ENTRY
"Stranieri come noi"
Vittorio Zucconi

In Italian class, we are reading a collection of stories written by Vittorio Zucconi.
Vittorio Zucconi was born in 1944, he is a journalist and works for 2 newspapers: “La Repubblica” and “L'espresso”. After traveling the world because of his job, he wrote this book, which is an attempt to show that people of all around the world are all the same and that they all feel the same emotions and the same pains...
The story which I liked the most is “USA: il giubbotto” ( USA: the jacket) , the story of Chenille, a young girl that lived is a poor suburb and that was killed “for her jacket”. Chenille was very good at school and so her mother decided to buy her a jacket of the “Chicago Bulls” which she really liked. One day, a girl saw her jacket and told her boyfriend that she would really want to have it too. So, he killed Chenille and gave the jacket to his girlfriend. When he was captured by the police he said: “I buy things with my knife, not with money: it costs nothing!”

Social Studies Entry
Life in Nazi Germany

Life in Nazi Germany was nice for some people, but it was awful for others... It all depended on who you were, and on what your beliefs were.
Nazi Party members lived happy lives: they got the best houses and the best jobs in the government. Ordinary people lived relatively nice lives too because Adolf Hitler had solved many of Germany's problems and the country was well organized. However, their lives weren't perfect because they were forced to do certain things and lost personal freedom: children were forced to join certain "clubs" and women had to give up their jobs to become "full time mothers". Also, women couldn't do many things: they couldn't join the army and couldn't decide how to dress.
Hitler's opponents and all the people who he didn't like, were treated very badly. Jews were usually sent in concentration camps, prostitutes, beggars, and homosexuals were also executed.

Drama Entry
Mid Summer's night dream
William Shakespeare

Who is Peter Quince?

Peter Quince is a character in "A mid summer's dream" , a romantic and at the same time funny play written by William Shakespeare. He is a carpenter and he works in Athens. He is the “ boss ” and playwright of a group of workmen (Nick Bottom the weaver, Francis Flute the bellows-mender, Tom Snout the tinker, Starveling the tailor and Snug the joiner) that want to perform the play “ Pyramus and Thisby” for Theseus and Hippolyta at their wedding. Although Peter is the official boss, Bottom often takes his place and this irritates him a lot.
In the play "Pyramus and Thisby" he recites the prologue, but because he is very nervous he does a mess and recites in an awful way!!!
This is very funny because he always corrects the other actors as if he were the best actor in the world and then he acts just as bad as they do!