Dear class…, dear buddies, dear classmates, dear….brothers and sisters… I don’t even know how to call you…

Thank you, thank you for all the laughters, the tears, thank you for the adventures and for the fights, thank you for making me smile, for making me change, thank you because every day I spent with you I felt like I was someone, someone special. Thank you for the smile you gave me in all these days. I needed it.

These 3 years have already passed, it seems like yesterday when Mrs Burba spelled each of our names and invited us to follow her in the class; it seems like yesterday when the first little groups where beginning to build up…it seems like yesterday when we got our firt rebuke, when we started to understand each other only with a glance, it seems like yesterday when we hugged each other for the first time…

These three years have flown away, but they’ve been intense; I will miss the mess, the laughters, the tears and the comforting hugs; I will miss the screams for victories, the unpredicted texts, the help that I gave to you, the last minute gossip and the fake fights at the bottom of the class, but most of all I will miss you…

In few months everyone of us will take his path, but this will never breaks the bonds, because “it’s possible to be forever friends, even if life changes us, divides us and put us one against the other…”

The memories of all this mogic moments that we spent together will always remain inside us; maybe one day we will laugh on it, or cry thinking of it, but that’s the great thing about having memories to carry with “pride”…

Now that I am writing and I am watching all of you, I’m almost crying at the thought that in 8 days we won’t be sharing anymore the same class…While my blue pen slips on the paper, all our best memories come back to me.

Our firts school camp and the second school camp, the victories in school’s tournaments…joy shining in our eyes, eyes that were again like the ones of a child…

I remember the fights and those words…the ones that said with a true heart will always remain inside of you…”I’m sorry”, …”I love you”…

These years I spent with you have lighten up a sparkle in me that will never leave beacuse it gives light to every step of the road I walk…Thanks for being a landmark…I will never forget you….

And then…here they are…

Dear teachers, thank you for treating us like your children from the beginning, thank you for being on our side, deespite the “quarrels”, thank you for making us grow…

Inside the school you have been like parents to us. I will miss you too, I will miss the “Goomorning” and the “Silence now!”

I will miss the laughters and the remarks. I still remeber the first day of this journey, I couldn’t believe it was possible to become so related. I will miss the strong noise of the school register on the desk…Thank you for making me a girl who is aware of what she does, a girl who can stand out in the crowd, thank you for helping me choosing the right path and for turning my weaknesses in strenghts.

I also thank you for the times in which I felt “lost” not knowing where to go and you reminded me to keep on dreaming with just one word.

Thank you for making me ready for the life I will face ahead, thank you with all my heart…

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5^th 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth son of Elia’s Disney and Flora, and he had three brothers, Herbert, Raymond and Roy, and one sister, Ruth. In 1906 the family moved to a farm in Missouri. Here Walt developed is interest in drawing, when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired doctor. His father worked in a newspaper and Walt practiced drawing by coping the front page cartoons; he also developed his ability to work with watercolors and crayons.

In 1917 they moved back to Chicago where Walt became the cartoonist of his high school newspaper, drawing patriotic pictures about the World War and he also took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1918 he joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver and he returned in 1919 in Kansas City where he drew commercial illustrations for advertising.

In 1920 he started to work at the Kansas City Film AD Company where they used the cutout animation technique. Disney preferred to draw cartoons; with a book on animation and a camera he began experimenting at home and he came to the conclusion that cell animation was more promising. He moved to Hollywood in 1923 where he founded the Walt Disney Company with is brother Roy.

In 1928 Disney developed Mickey Mouse, that first appeared in May of the same year. Disney signed a contract with the Universal Pictures and developed the Silly Synphony series and in 1932 he added the color. In 1933 Disney produced The Three Little Pigs, one of the most successfull short animations of all time. He won his first Accademy Aword in the short subject category, one of a long series to come.

In December 1937 Walt produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was a worldwide success. During the next five years he completed Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi. Cinderella was released in 1950, Alice in Wonderland in 1951, Peter Pan in 1953, Lady and the Tramp in 1955, Sleeping Beauty in 1959 and 101 Dalmatians in 1961.

One of Disney’s majior successes had been the motion picture Mary Poppins, released in 1964 which mixed live action and animation. It has been a real revolution for cinema animation. Walt Disney died in 1966 with lung cancer.

His film production firm didn’t stop after his death, and after the fusion with Pixar, in 2006, the Disney Production released the first ever computer-animated feature film: Toy Story

SIGNIFICANCE OF WALT DISNEY

When we hear the name of Walt Disney most of us can’t help to make a little smile: he brought fantasy to all the lives of all of us, parents and children. But Walt Disney has been unique also as a man and here are some important aspects of his life and personality that can be an example to all of us

• He dared to dream big: he had a big dream and went after it.
• He had been a living example of perseverance through difficult times and of  the possibility to still stay positive
• He didn’t hide the fact that life is hard: in fact in every movie he put a character who has to face adversities to reach is dream
• He recognized the importance of family: Mary Poppins was born from a book he read to his daughters
• Money was not his ultimate goal, the fulfillment of his dream was his first aim
• He appealed to the child in all of as remembering to everyone that that sprinkle of magic must never be abandoned even in the darkest of times and even in the elder ages.
• He saw the best in people and he tried to bring this best out of them.
•  He recognized the importance of people: his work is bonded to people, to their dreams, their desires.

We live in a period in which teenagers spend a lot of their time on their phones and using social media.

I think that every teenager should use his phone less, but many of them have dependence on phones and social media.

I haven’t got any social media account, like Facebook or Instagram. I personally think that with this social media it’s easy for others to be jealous of what other people do.

I am happy when I see or I know that someone is going on a beautiful journey, so I believe that our life will be better without social media, because the people will be happier with the life they live, or maybe they could spend their time trying to make it better instead of envying others.

More also everyone who has dependence on social media should think more of all the children that are in hospital, or all the children who, in that moment, are working in factories and can’t play or go to school.

They also shouldn’t think of people who have more things than they do, as, for example, new shoes, new clothes, new cars…

Life is beautiful and we can’t waste it for a smartphone or a computer, because the world outside is more beautiful than phones.

In my relationships I prefer to talk with my friends. When we think of our friends, we shouldn’t only text with them, but we should talk to them, because when we talk, we can see their face, we can hear their words and their voices and I think that this is much better.

I have heard something about sexting, but in my experience I don’t know anyone who has been asked to send private images. If it ever happens to me I would block the contact on my phone and I will tell my parents and decide with them what to do.

Many people are sure that they can’t live without their smartphones, but I know that this is possible, because when I go to my scout camp, I can’t bring it with me, but I never think of it, I don’t even remember it. I stay with my friends and for me, in those days, they only exist. I am very happy and I think that this is a better thing.

Plot

David was born in 1820, his father died before he was born. He lived happily with his mother and Miss Peggotty, the housekeeper.When he was 7 years old his mother met Mr Murdstone and they married. Mr Murdstone was cruel to David and his sister Miss Murdstone came to live with them, they were bad with David.

One day he hit David with a wooden stick, to the point that David bit Mr Murdstone hand. He sent David to a college where he met two boys, Traddles and Steerforth that became his friends. The headmaster was hard and cruel too. While David was in the college his mother died.

David came back home and Mr Murdstone sent him to London, to work in a factory. Miss Pegotty married Mr Barkis, a fisherman and they lived in Yourmouth. One day David decided to escape from the factory and he went to Dover, where his aunt Betsy lived. She took David with her and she payed David’s lessons and his room in Canterbury.

In Canterbury David met Agnes, he was living with her and her father. When David and his friend Steerforth went to Pegotty’s house, Steerforth seduced Emily, her nephew, while she was engaged with Cam. Emily and Steerforth run away and Cam and Pegotty started to search Emily.

David became a lawyer and he went to work to Mr Spenlow, where he met his daughter Dora and he fell in love with her.

Dora’s housekeeper was Miss Murdstone. Mr Spenlow fired David because Miss Murdstone showed him the love letters that David wrote to Dora, but the next night he died.

Dora married David, but she was fragile and she got sick and died. David started to see Agnes again, she told him that she have always been in love with him, so they married and had four children.

The author

Charles Dickens was born in England on the 7th of February 1812. When he was 12 years old his father went to prison.

He left school and went to work in a factory. He workerd many hours in terrible conditions. In 1831 he became a newspaper reporter and he started writing short stories. A lot of people bought the magazines to read his stories.

In 1836 he wrote his first novel “The Pickwick Papers” and it was a big success. He married Caterine Hogartin in 1836 and they had 10 children.

He met many people in his life and he wrote about many of them in his novels. His books are about poverty and social problems. He wrote fourteen major novels during the industrial revolution and he became famous. He died whe he was 58 years old.

Historical Context

When Dickens wrote his novel was the period of the second industrial revolution

There were many scientific discoveries and inventions. There was a big development of railways and shipbuilding with steel.

Many weapons were built and they were stronger than the old ones.

Petroleum was extracted first in 1859 and there were many deposites in Texas. The ships started to use petroleum and fuel.

In this period electric and chemical industries were born. Dinamite was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1867. In this period were produced many medications like aspirin and also anesthetics to reduce pain.

My opinion

For me this book is very beautiful because it also talks about the children’s work in the factories and I think that this is wrong because children mustn’t work, and that they should go to school because it’s their right.

One week ago, on the 14th of March, me and my class, with our maths and english teachers, went to the ESA site and it was very beautiful.

I was very happy because it was the first step of my dream and I was excited.

The morning we took the bus to go at the ESA site and we visited it.

Th most beautiful room that we visited was the dark room with the model of the world. It was wonderful.

I was very relaxed, in that moment I didn’t remember any of my thoughts and I was very happy.

Another room that I loved was the room where we did some experiments. We did an experiment with water; we built a home suitable for the moon and we simulated a landing.

I had a lot of fun because I think that, very likely, this will be my future, and this was only the beginning.

In the first room we were divided in teams and we played: we had to search craters and asteroids inside the pictures that the researchers showed us.

In the second room we built the Vega rocket and it was fantastic.

After that we went in the dark room where we saw a plastic of Lazio region. Then we saw some researchers that shooted some rockets and it was impressive.

It was a fantastic experience and I’m very happy because we also have teachers that help their students to realize their dreams.

I have got a dream and I think that I will achieve it.

For me a dream is a thing that we love and it also can be intangible.

I love science and physics, astrophysics and maths… And I want to enter in “E.S.A.”, because since 1 year ago, I started to love space and satellites, because I started an astronomy class.

In a while, me and my class are going to visit the “E.S.A.” site, with our english and maths teachers and I’m very happy.

I think that everyone has to believe in his own dreams to achieve them and I think that nothing is impossible to a willing heart

I think that every person that achieves his own dreams isa determinate person, because she didn’t stop in front of the first obstacle, but went ahead.

A person that didn’t stop in front of the first and many obstacles is Bebe Vio, I love her and I value her. When she was 11 years old, she had meningitis and to save her the doctors had to cut off her lower legs and her arms. Now she is a fencing champion and she always smiles. She is very strong and I love her story. To achieve her dream she had done all and she is a real hero.

I hope that I will fight for my own dreams as Bebe has done.

I hope also that I won’t stop in front of obstacles, because I want to follow my dreams untile the end.

I hope that my future will be happy because I believe that it is the most important thing

In Italy the problems are a lot as air pollution, water pollution, toxic waste and illegal waste disposal.

Air pollution is from energy and heating, transportation and industrial sources.

Water pollution depends on industry, on pesticides and illegal waste disposal.

The most serious problem is air pollution, because if air is polluted we breathe substances that are dangerous for our health… but illegal waste disposal is very dangerous too in the regions where it happens, because it pollutes the water that people drink and the water used in agricolture, so the food is polluted too.

I didn’t see but I have heard of ILVA’s disaster in Taranto. ILVA was a steel manufactory plant which highly polluted water, air and soil to the point that the people were sick.

To produce less pollution we could use recycled materials as paper, plastic, glass and we could try ti use less energy.

Is important to recycle materials because we can make the world less polluted so we can live better.

I have decided to make a plastic of the earth to always remember that environmental problems are important because it’s about our future.

This plastic represents water pollution. I think that this plastic has a deep meaning: if we help the world, that black drop will be blue.

Everyone of us can make the world a better place we just have to believe in our target.

To make the plastic I used: a polystyrene ball, 5 newspapers, glue, green permanent marker, blue , white and grey paint, a cardboard.

I took the polystyrene ball and I put the newspapers on it with glue.

When the glue dried I painted the oceans and the seas on the polystyrene ball with the blue and white paint. I made the tap with a cardboard and I painted it with grey paint.

Then I drew the continents with a green permanent marker.

After that I glued the tap on the polystyrene ball.