At Cheshire Academy, boarding students make up approximately 65% of the school community and come from 17 states and 30 countries. Living on campus helps students to learn and grow in a supportive and empowering community. 

There are five single-gender dormitories on campus, all of which are home to several faculty members and their families. Additional faculty members live in campus housing scattered throughout the 104-acre campus. Although each dorm differs in design, all living quarters for students have a main lounge area with a television. The majority of rooms are designed for two students, though there are some single and triple rooms also available.  

Attending a college preparatory school like Cheshire Academy is one of the best ways to prepare for life at college. Boarding school provides a safe environment for students to explore their independence and learn to take responsibility for their own lives. Living on campus provides students the structure and adult guidance they need to build self-reliance and maturity that will serve them well in college and beyond.

Dorms at Cheshire Academy are more than just a place to sleep and study. These residential homes are also a place to unwind, study, talk to friends, listen to music, play games and find time to be alone. Living together on campus helps students and faculty to bond and forge lifelong connections. Friendships built here continue long after graduation.

At Cheshire Academy
Boarding students 
Living on campus and 
students Learn and grow 

Students from
17 states and 30 countries 
Help each other
Hanging out together


Living on campus is
The best way to prepare 
For college. Learn to take 
Responsibility for their own lives.


More than just a place to sleep and study
Talk to friends, listen music play games
Living together as family
Friendships build here.

Found blog

But her life was short. A week later the whole population of Lightning Ridge came out to the cemetery again. My sister Kellyanne Williamson was buried with her imaginary friends, in the same grave, in the same place where millions of years ago there had been sea and creatures swimming cheerfully around. And she took with her some Violet Crumbles, in case Pobby and Dingan had run out. And although in the end everyone believed that Pobby and Dingan had really lived and were really dead, nobody at the Ridge could quite believe the funeral of Kellyanne Williamson was actually happening. And I, Ashmol, still can’t believe that it did. I just can’t. I can’t believe it at all. Even now, one year later, it feels like she’s still totally alive.

Her life was short
Whole population of the town came out
To the cemetery, Kellyanne was buried
With her best friends

In the end, everyone believed
That Pobby and Dingan had lived
Nobody believe the funeral of kellyanne
Is happening now.

Still can't believe it
I just can't
I can't believe it at all
Feels like she's still totally alive.

Image of fig

The fig tree is the father's big dream. He loves fig tree mother than any types of tree such as lima beans, zucchini, parsley, beets. But when the mother told the father, "plat one!" But he never did it because he always forgets to water to plants. So he is very dreamer. At end of the poem, he finally has fig tree at his new yard and he got his dream. 

The fig symbolize the father's dream or his life in the poem. I think it symbolizes the father's dream because in the poem, it talks about how much he wants the fig tree at his yard and that's his huge dream. Also his family lived in many houses but none of has fig tree, I think this is relating to his life too. So like he is happy to live in many houses because he might has fig tree at his new yard. 

Haiku

I lay on the grass.
Sunshine makes warm and peaceful.
Spring comes to my town.

Find a poem

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.


Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.


Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.


Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.


Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.


You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.


Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise
I rise
I rise.
This poem has nine stanzas and 1-7 stanzas have 4 lines but 8 has 6 lines and 9 has 9 lines. 
Most of line's syllable is 8 but some of them are not 8 syllables so this author doesn't care about syllable that much. The rhyme of the poem is very weird because this poem's rhyme is ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT ......... So second line and fourth line is rhyme. No.8 and 9 stanza's fifth line and sixth line rhyme so I think this poem’s rhyme is very unique. This author doesn't about forms of poem but this poem still has rhyme. Only this author cares about I rise. This author repeat I rise 10 times in this poem. So he cares this deeper than other forms.

The main topic of this poem is rise. In each stanza, it says what happen to the person but the person rises. So this poem’s purpose is to tell readers about you should rise when something happen to you. This is about life and rise is very important thing in everyone’s life. In last stanza, there are five lines that say I rise. So we can see that how much this author wants to tell about the importance of rise. I like this poem because I agreed to this poem because I'm living my life and there are so many problems. But I need to rise and keep moving forward so I agree that rise is very important thing in our life. The one reason that I don't like this poem is this poem doesn't have many rhymes. When I read this loud, it doesn't stay in my head. Some other poems stuck in my head but this poem doesn't. But this is still my favorite poem because I like the content of the poem.

Poem "Unfair"

Unfair

They don’t allow pets in this apartment.
That’s not decent, that’s not fair.
They don’t allow pets in this apartment.
They don’t listen, they don’t care.
I told them he’s quiet and never does bark,
I told them he’d do all of his stuff in the park,
I told them he’s cuddly and friendly, and yet– –
They won’t allow pets.

I chose this poem because I agree what this poem says. I have a pet and he is so cute and I love him. So I feel really bad for this kid because his pet is not allow in the apartment. I think this is unfair too. 

I like rhyme of the poem because this is ABABCC and I think there is only few this type of rhyme. Also I like the sound of the poem. When I say it loud, this poem stuck in my head so it's easy to remember and understand. This poem is about a kid and his pet. He is living in the apartment but they 

don't allow pets. They don't listen when he explains about his pet. He was saying that's unfair and trying to tell why this apartment should allow his pet.

Quiz

2. What connection does Asmol make between the land covered with seawater and Pobby and Dingan? Why is that important to the story?

Rex told Ashmol, "all this land where lightning Ridge is now was once covered by seawater and how all kinds of sea creatures had been found fossilized in the rock." He was remembered this while he was thinking about Pobby and Dingan. Long time ago, even humans weren't birth on the earth, there are lots of sea creatures. Now, people found out about those creatures but we couldn't find it out if there were no fossils. I think he wanted to say that if he can find the fossils of  Pobby and Dingan, he can prove that they were real because fossils are best evidence to show people that they were true. I think this is important to the story because no one believes Pobby and Dingan except Kellyanne and Ashmol needed to prove that they are real because he wanted to fix his family relationships. So if he could find fossils, he could prove that they were real.



5. In the very end of the novel, Ashmol talks about what it’s like to “believe in something which is hard to see. Or to keep looking for something that’s totally hard to find.” Discuss the importance of imagination and dreams in this novel. Why are they so important even if they cannot be seen. Consider what dreams Rex, the father, and Annie, the mother, have in the story. Consider, also, the dream that Ashmol has. How do those "unseen" dreams connect to Kellyanne's belief in Pobby and Dingan?

They are so important even if they cannot be seen because they are important for person who believe them.  In this book, people's dream or imagination moves characters. Rex's dream is to find big opal, Annie wants to go to England, Ashmol wants his family's relationship becomes better, and Kellyanne is friend with imaginary characters. 
I focus on Annie's dream. She wants to go to England because England is place that she grew up and she is missing it. So her dream is going to England. She is trying to get close to the dream and that's why she is working. I think this can connect to Kellyanne's imagination. The dream can't see either and she just imagine to go to England. Maybe she can go to England in the futures and maybe she can't. So she just imagines to go there and it is same as Kellyanne. Kellyanne just believes that Pobby and Dingan are real and she is living for them. Dream and imagination are very similar I think because both of them are not able to see. But they are very important to have because if they don't have a dream and imagination, why are they need to live their lives. It's one of a reason people are working hard and living their lives. People are doing something because they have dream that they are imagine and they are trying to get close to the dream. Both dreams and imagination can control people's life.