The Story of Jack

It was the night of 31st October and Jack was walking to a Halloween party. Suddenly he stumbled against something that looked like a stone and he fell down. While he was on the ground, he turned and saw a strange think, he dug with his hands and he found a head. He panicked and looked around: he realized he was in a graveyard. Something caught his ankle: it was a hand. Jack ran away scared and he took shelter in an empty house. He looked out of the window and saw the graveyard full of zombies. Suddenly in the fog he saw a headless man riding a black horse. The man was holding his head with his right hand, it was the head Jack had seen before. The horseman was riding towards him. Jack thought that his life had come to an end, when he saw a door behind him. It led outside and as soon as he was out, he started running, but the horseman followed him. Jack understood that his only hope of survival was crossing the river, because there were lights, on the other bank. He managed to swim across but when he reached the other bank the horseman threw the head he was holding towards him. When it hit Jack, the head exploded and Jack disappeared in the smoke. No news about him have been heard since. Somebody thinks that he went to another part of the world. Somebody thinks that he became the slave of the headless horseman. His end is unknown, it is the mystery of the village where he lived.

Bearrice Politi II B Scientifico

31th October

Erika Fornero Monia e Ginevra Biagioni II B Scientiico

      A Scary Halloween story 

A few years ago, I lived in a suburb close to the little town of Wightown where I worked as an apprentice for mister Host G. who had a carpenter work-shop. He was rich, honest and generous. It was a few days before Halloween and the children were very excited. One morning a foreigner came into in the shop, asking me to make a hundred boxes of different seizes to be ready by Halloween. So, without any questions, we confirmed the order. He told me that his name was Jack O. He thanked me and he left. The following days I worked hard and I finished the order at 6 p.m. on the day of Halloween. Mister Jack O. arrived just before closing time. He loaded the boxes into a big van. After a short time he came back to pay me. He took his wallet out and in that moment a lightening caused a blackout. I found the lantern under the work-bench and turned it on. The foreigner had disappeared, but I found the money for my hard work on the table. The magical disappearance of mister Jack O. left me breathless.

The time had come to close. Outside an icy air had fallen on the streets of the suburb and I was looking forward to getting home. After dinner, the doorbell rang. I opened the door and immediately a child  10-11 years old, dressed as a monkey, asked me: - Trick or treat? I threw some sweets into his bag. A lot of children arrived that evening and I was very happy to give them sweets. It was 11:30 p.m. so I decided to go to bed. I was falling asleep when the doorbell rang again. I went to see who was, thinking it was another child. I opened the door and Mr. Jack O. appeared in front of me and, without saying anything, he took off the ghost costume. He was a man, a human being. I had thought he was a ghost like me and all the inhabitants of that suburb. So he rubbed a magic lamp and suddenly I was sucked into it.

I woke up later, in a crate. Without thinking much, I took a match and lit it, by rubbing it on the wood. The light fell on a sign; It read: - Host G.’s Carpenter. I had made those boxes. Mr. Jack O., however, wasn’t very prudent as he did not consider that we ghosts can pass through the material. So it was very easy to go through the crates. I discovered I was in a large room of an old abandoned house with my neighbors. We decided together to wait for Mr. Jack O. in the haunted house. After some hours, Mr. Jack O. came into the house expecting to find all the ghosts trapped. We went out of our hiding places and began to scream, to make confusion with scary noises, frightening him to death. Terrified, he began to run around the room and then ran away screaming like a child. The cruel Mr. Jack O. wanted to take over the city but he wasn’t successful. 

It was a terrifying memorable Halloween night.

Gianluca Bertini II B Scientifico

Soft Pumpkin Cake

                                                                            Simone Rubino II B Scientifico

Ingredients

Pumkin Pulp: 500 g

Sugar: 35 g

Rosemary: 10 g

Egg: n. 3

Sunflower Seed Oil: 150 ml

Brown Sugar: 150 g

Flour 00: 175 g

Almond Flour: 75 g

Milk: 100 ml

Baking Powder: 16 g

Cinnamon: 2 g

Ground Hazelnuts: 150 g.

Remove the seeds from the pumpkin pulp with a knife. Cut it into slices.

Put them into a baking tin with partchment paper and put a sprig of rosemary for each slices. Sprinkle with sugar. Cook it in an pre-heated oven at 180°C for 60 minuts. Open the oven and remove the sprigs of rosemary. Press the pumpkin in a sieve, because the water must go out.

Put the eggs in a bowl, add the brown sugar and mix until it dissolves. Add the almond flour.

Mix the flour with the baking powder in it with the eggs, add sunflower seed oil and continue mixing till is is smooth.

Now pour the milk and continue to mix, add the ground hazelnuts in the end.

Pour into a baking tin ( 24 cm diameter). Cook in a pre-heated oven at 160 °C for 40 minuts.

Serve warm.

YUMMY!!!!!!!!

 COFFIN CAKE

Viola Catoni II B Scientifico

Here'a a pretty cool and easy recipe

INGREDIENTS:
 100 g Jam

 350g Sponge  cake
Frosting:
 150 g dark chocolate
 125 ml dream
 25 g glucose


Draw a coffin on the cardboard  and use it to cutthe sponge cake. Spread the jam on the coffin. 

Put the coffin on a wire rack and start to

prepare the chocolate frosting: warm the cream and, when the it is hot, remove it from the fire and add the glucose and the dark chocolate. Mix the cream until homogeneous.When the glaze is ready, put it on the coffin.

Enjoy it!


 




CHEESECAKE

Alessia Giordani  II B Scientifico






With a creamy top and buttery biscuit base, who can resist this classic dessert?




INGREDIENTS FOR THE BASE:

150 g Digestive Biscuits

80 g Butter

Cane-sugar 2 tbls

INGREDIENTS FOR THE CREAM:

Corn starch 20 g
juice of half lemon
2 whole eggs and 1 yolk
Sugar 100 g
vanillin
Philadelphia cheese 600 g
Cream 100 ml
Sour cream 200 ml
confectioner's sugar 2 tbls

Crush the biscuits with the cane-

sugar in a food processor; tip into a bowl with the melted butter and mix well. Put the biscuits  into the base of the cake tin, covered with bakng paper.Press on the baseand on the sideswith a spoon. Chill for 30 minuts. 

Pour 2 whole eggs and a yolk in a bowl, add the sugar and mix until creamy. 

Add Philadelphia and mix to create a homogeneous cream. Pour the 

lemon juice into the cream.
Put the cream on the base and cook it in the oven (180°) for 30     minutes. While the cheesecake is cooking, prepare the frosting: mix the sour cream and the confectioner's sugar. Cover the cheesecake 

and put it in the oven for 5 minutes (180°). 

NEW RECIPES TOMMORROW!!!!!

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classe 3 U

Halloween - Viola Ragonese, Rossella Escobar, Marcos Baldanzi, Giulia Lo Bianco, Jacopo Ori

Halloween derives from "All Allows Day". The origins of that celebration goes back to the ancient Celts. In fact, their druids honored Samhain, the god of the death.

The Celts believed that the dead, led by Samhain, went out of their graves on the night of the 31st October. So the living were afraid of them, and they dressed in scary costumes to frighten the spirits.

After the Roman invasion, Halloween became a harvest festival. The colours of Halloween are in fact orange (that represents the harvest), and black (that represents the death).

"All Allows Day" was first important in Ireland and Scotland, and then it was brought to the USA by the Irish immigrants.

The legend of Jack O'Lantern

A man called Jack, who lived in Ireland and who was known for his drunkenness, one day went to a pub, where he met the Devil.

The Devil wanted his soul, but Jack asked him one more drink without having the money to pay. So the Devil became a coin, Jack trapped him into his pocket, and he let him free on the condition of having one more year of life.

One year later he trapped the Devil again and the Devil had to promise to let him ten more years of life.

When Jack died, he wasn't accepted in Heaven nor in Hell, because the Devil had recognised him.

However, the Devil gave him a piece of a coal that Jack put into a turnip to use it as a lantern.

On Halloween night, in the USA they couldn't celebrate with a turnip, because there were no turnips there. So people started using pumpkins as lanterns; that's why pumpkins are still symbols of this famous celebration.

Fun facts

• Legendary magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix on Halloween in 1926.
• Vampires think Halloween is tacky and don't bother going around that night.
• Halloween is second only to Christmas in spending. Consumers will spend over $2.5 Billion during Halloween. That's a whole lot of candy, costumes, decorations and party goods.
• People have believed for centuries that light keeps away ghosts and ghouls. Making a pumpkin lantern with a candle inside may keep you safe from all the spooky spirits flying around on Halloween.

classe 3 BL

classe 3 BL

HALLOWEEN MENU’

Starter:

• sauce of vomit

Avocado, lemon juice, red pepper (sliced), tomato cubes, cheese.

Main courses:

• larvas drowned in slime attached by ants

400 grams spaghetti, four fennels, garlic, oil, salt, pepper, poppy seeds, chive.

• wings of bat and marshy sauce

20 chicken wings, soy sauce, paprika, salt pepper, aromatic herbs, garlic.

For the sauce: fresh cheese, pepper, garlic, asparaguses.

Vegetables:

• ocular bulbs

12 eggs, 12 olives,and red food coloring.

Dessert:

• skewers of snake bowels

Grapes, dates, pineapple.

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How to make your halloween pumpkin:

For creating the best Halloween atmosphere you must show your shiny pumpkin!

Here you’ll learn how to carve the famous “Jack O’Lantern”; it’s not difficult, you need only this things:

• a spoon or an ice-cream scoop;
• a knife with long and sharp blade;
• some newspapers;
• a pumpkin (obviously).

STEP 1:

With your knife, cut away the top of the pumpkin.

The hole must be big enough to crave the inner part by hand, whit the spoon. The cut must be pentagonal or hexagonal (not circular), so it will be easier.

Clean the cap of the pumpkin, so you’ll be able to use it as a blug. Then, with the spoon scrape the inner walls of the pumpkin for cleaning from the filaments.

STEP 2:

Search the better part of the pumpkin for carving the face. Now use carefully the knife for scratching the single parts of the face (if you want, you can sign the face with a pencil before the scratching).

When you have finished to cut, peel back the leavings.

STEP 3:

Check if the bottom is fit to put a candle on it.

Now you’re ready to light you Jack O’Lantern for the Halloween night!

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The colours of halloween

Black, green, orange and red

Four are the colours that on Halloween I wear

Red, orange, greeen and black

These are the colours of the mistery.

Orange is the decourated pumpkin for the party

That menacing  looks out the window.

 Orange is the sweet of the tradition

 I’ll devour it all in one bite.

Green is the bad monsters’ colour

They roam the streets mingling with the alives.

Green is the colour of the soup

That the whitch compouds in the big pot.

Black is the vampire’s mantle

He wraps an himself when he goes out.

Black are the cat, the spider and the crow

That they’re whooping at me with scowl.

Red fire is the small devil

Horns, tail and tuft

I prefer go to bed

To being in his sight!

Red, orange, green and black

These are the colours of the mistery.

Black, green, orange and red

Four are the colours that on Halloween I wear.

Nero, verde, arancione e rosso Black, green, orange and red

Quattro i colori che ad Halloween indosso.

Rosso, arancione, verde e nero 

Questi i colori del mistero.

Arancione è la zucca addobbata a festa 

Che minacciosa guarda dalla finestra.

Arancione è il dolce della tradizione 

Lo divoro tutto in un solo boccone.

Verde è il colore dei mostri cattivi 

Si aggirano per strada mischiandosi ai vivi.

Verde il colore del minestrone 

Che la strega rimescola nel pentolone.

Nero è il mantello del vampiro 

Vi si avvolge tutto quando va in giro.

Neri il gatto, il ragno ed il corvo 

Che mi osservano insieme con sguardo torvo.

Rosso fuoco è il diavoletto 

Corna, coda e ciuffetto 

Preferisco andare a letto 

Che trovarmi al suo cospetto!

Rosso, arancione, verde e nero 

Questi i colori del mistero.

Nero, verde, arancione e rosso 

Quattro i colori che ad Halloween indosso.

Lavoro svolto da: Gaia Simoncini, Ilaria Falaschi, Agnese Menichetti, Eva Orsini, Eleonora Callaioli e Greta Masoni, classe III° BL a.s. 2014/2015.

Syracuse University Florence

At about eight o’ clock in the morning, on October the eighth, we were on the train, leaving for Florence … to go to the University of Syracuse, a real American University in Tuscany!!

The Syracuse University is an American University which is set in Florence. The centre of the Campus is Villa Rossa in Piazza Savonarola. Only American students can study there. This University is one of the oldest and with well known study programs in Italy. There are many courses which are divided into other departments, such as Architecture, Art, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, of course all in Italian. Most of the students live in families in Florence as home- stays. Their lessons begin on Monday and finish on Thursday; so students can go on excursions organized by the University itself during the weekend.

Our teachers and the Syracuse University’s ones divided us in small groups of four or five people: two Italians and three Americans. In the morning we talked for two hours to some students belonging to a class and in the afternoon, after a small break, with others. The American students, who have been studying Italian for a month, had prepared for us some questions, so that we could answer, helping them learn some new words and expressions. However we also spoke English and we had the opportunity to improve our language skill.

Wow!! Chatting with other foreign people is a great opportunity to discover new cultures, new mentalities and different lifestyles! Being helpful to them while they’re trying to improve their knowledge of the Italian language has been very rewarding to all of us. At the same time they have been very kind, laid back and exuberant. We loved spending time with them, see how their University works, knowing their opinions, interests and how they’re reacting in a new country. We all think that in the future we could be inspired by them, possibly living an experience like theirs.

At the beginning we had some difficulties on “breaking the ice”, but then it was like we were talking with friends. Maybe it was a bit hard to understand the different American accents, and there were some misunderstandings, but we all ended up laughing a lot. We had a good experience, we improved our English and we met new people with different cultures and with different ideas. We hope that other students might have an experience like ours, talking with the students of the Syracuse University, because it’s a fun, satisfying and useful activity!

The students of V B Linguistic Course