Scribe Notes: Tue 05.01.2012

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Period 3

The Scribe of 5.1.12

I completely forgot it was my turn to do a scribe, but Ryan Valle reminded me. I owe her brownies because she has helped me so much lately!

Anyways, we have approximately 3 hours of homework due Thursday:

  • -TW: Tech/School
  • -TW: Buy Nothing Day
  • -MC Practice: Sample Text IV

The quote we had to discuss was: “Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” –Dion Boucicault. I thought it was pretty clever.

For the TW: Tech/School we split up the readings. Then, we summarized (on paper) the passage. After, we listed the key points/arguments in bullets. We then traded and repeated the prior steps so that we could analyze as many passages as possible for the essay. After, we shared our findings.

In the TW: Tech/School essay, we must state our sources by either title or description in parenthesis.

 

Source A: (Rotstein)

Source B: (Delaney)

Source C: (Dyson)

Source D: (Johnson)

Source E: (Gelernter)

Source F: (cartoon)

Viness.

 

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Scribe Notes: Thu 04.26.2012

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Scribe Notes: Tue 04.24.2012

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Period 3

Today was the first day of the ever so great state testing. As one would expect, we were jumping up and down with the joy of having to sit the entire period taking a required test, that was of course, six feet beneath our standards. As Eldridge was going over the sample questions, we looked at each other amazed at the simplicity of the questions. Although we were appalled by how easy it seemed, we were somewhat worried that a few of us may under think the test. Not only are we concerned with that idea, but we were also tackled with boredom. Approximately thirty to forty minutes into the exam, many of us became drawn under a sleep spell of some sort. I, for one, was fighting to keep my eyes open to complete my test. Despite having the luxury of food and snacks on my desk to keep me awake, I could not help but daze off for a few minutes. About five minutes into my nap, I felt the beady eyes of Beatrize staring at me, which awakened me. Luckily, I was not the only one in this situation. Vanessa Castillo, sitting two seats down and one seat over, was also taking a beating by those vicious sleep monkeys. She, on the other hand, won her battle and avoided the dreadfulness of “knocking out.” Racheal Solis, was not as fortunate as Ms. Castillo. About thirty minutes before the test was over, the evil Mr Eldridge made her exit the classroom so she can soak up the sun for a few minutes to keep her on her toes. This may have be a “suckish” thing for her, but it provided the rest of the class with some humor. Another loved classmate of ours, the lovely Savvanah P. (aka @iamthe_wild_one), also provided the class with a laugh or two. She decided to stretch in very uncommon way and make hilarious comments throughout this process. She single handedly made everyone’s day a tad bit brighter. With this being said, that was the last interesting event of the day. We handed in our tests as the bell rang, many of us not finishing, and were reminded the the essay our evil teacher assigned to us. Lazy day one might ask? No. the bright side to taking our English testing, is that it means we are one step closer to being done with California State Testing for the rest of our lives. This, im sure of, makes everyone obtain just a little bit of happiness to take home with them. One day down, one more to go! (Well for English anyways) >.<

Nicole Ceniceros

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Scribe Notes: Mon 04.23.2012

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Period 3

Again, another day in Mr. Eldridge’s third period class. As the class started we received scores from our CST /STAR tests and printed the results on a piece of paper that was passed out to us. Mostly the whole class was asking what was each other’s mile time since the paper showed their results from P.E. freshmen year of 09-10. Around ten minutes passed and in came our assistant principal Mr. Flores and informed us about the achievements that the Junior class has made since we entered South El Monte and how we must strive to do well on our CST tomorrow.

After  Mr. Flores left Mr. Eldridge took the stage and reviewed on how to do proper citations and stumbling to other peers seeing some not comprehending it until after a while. Then we were comparing different works cited page with other ones and found the tiny differences that each contain. Then the last thing on the agenda was to look over the literary movements to have a better understanding once we take the CST’s. We had a short day but even though short the entire class came out with a little more knowledge than once entered. The day sort of reminded me of being over confident, if you walk in the room thinking that you will pass the test then beware when it comes back to bite you.


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Scribe Notes: Mon 04.16.2012

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Period 1

On our first day back to our English AP class, mostly everyone seemed to be in a great mood this morning. Some caring students said their “Hellos” and “Good mornings” to their fellow classmates and asked how their spring break was like, while the other not so caring were trying to stay awake and keep themselves from not drooling on their desk. Haha. Class started and most of us began to turn in our “over the spring break, do not procrastinate essays”, while others who did procrastinate tried to finish up their essays in class, not so clever because Eldridge could tell who they were. Anyhow, Eldridge then announced that we were going to have a TROPE QUIZ, which was very taunting and shocking to us because we weren’t expecting anything BIG on our first day back, I could hear many saying NO! And WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO US!  So we quickly began to pull out our trope study sheet, and rapidly tried to memorize every trophe possible! Eldridge, in the mean time, began to check off students who completed their CST packets during the break, he seemed very impressed and fascinated, with expression such as “Hooray!” and “Cool!”, knowing that we actually got our work done and learned something over the break. Suddenly it was time….for the QUIZ! Eldridge motioned to us to face each other and prepare for the quiz, (many of us were hiding the fact that we did not know any of the tropes and pretended to act prepared), while Eldridge reached over for a bag of candy, which caught our attention, and I overheard Francisco say,” OH! This is going to be a fun game!” Eldridge then stated, “I’m going to use diabetes for motivation.” which was pretty funny and sad but tempting.  As we began to discuss about diabetes and how its #1 cause is obesity, and not sugar, we were suddenly interrupted by a commercial break which involved Mr. Garcia who came to talk to us about our upcoming AP EXAMS!  Lastly, it finally came down to begin our QUIZ, but it did not turn out as bad as we thought, in fact it was very entertaining, FAST, and actually got us thinking about the tropes and their definition, which I thought was very helpful! It involved pairs of two, and together we had to help one another as quickly as possible to hint what trophe was on the screen, and race against other pairs to get to the top of the trope pyramid. The grand prize was DIABETES! Haha. Mr. Eldridge found it entertaining to question the person who thought they won the race, and asked them about a trophe on the screen, most of them answered with UMMM or simply said the wrong trope, and his statement was “THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE”, but he was right it was just a trope. Hopefully we have these, fun motivational with diabetes quizzes more often, because it will actually help us prepare for our upcoming AP EXAMS, which are only 1 MONTH AWAY!!!!

-What a good day to start off our first day back in ENGLISH AP(:

Sincerely, EDITH

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Scribe Notes: Thu 04.05.2012

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Period 1

Today Eldridge answered a few of our question regarding what we have been doing for the past few week. One question asked was how to approach a rhetorical question. He advised us into using SOAP, especially if the document is a speech or letter.

Eldridge used an analogy to clarify how to apply SOAP:

How to write a speech~~

  • 1. AUDIENCE
  • What do they want to listen to?
  • 2. SPEAKER
  • What am I comfortable with?
  • 3. MATTER
  • What am I going to write about?
  • 4. SPEECH

__________

Key Terms:

  • Speaker: who is speaking/ author
  • Matter: what is being addressed
  • Audience: to whom the matter is directed to
  • Speech: how we address it

__________

SOAP

  • Speaker
  • Occasion
  • Audience
  • Purpose

He also stated that many of the political debates used paralipsis (a type of ad hominem) to fend of their opponents; discovering fallacies in primary documents is also an excellent approach in rhetoric essays.

Next, we read a passage and began to outline our essays. Eldridge emphasized the need to have a thesis and topic sentence before continuing on to do the essay. After a quick group discussion to approve our thesis and come up with “rules” that indicate a well written thesis, we discussed as a class.

__________________

Vocab~~

paralipsis: Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony.

Example: I don’t want to dwell on his drinking problem because that is besides the point.

Example: Lord Chesterfield essay question 1

HW: Complete the CST packet and complete the essay handed out

Have an Egg-cellent Easter holiday

and an awesome

 

KB


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Scribe Notes: Thu 03.22.2012

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Scribe Notes: Mon 03.19.2012

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Period 3

Today in Buddy Holly’s class I did not expect to be SCRIBE. It was supposed to be Beatrize’s turn, but since there is a field trip for AVID 2013 and I’m not going to be here for my SCRIBE, we switched.
Anyway, the SAT word for today is abhor. Abhor means to loathe or detest. The adjective and verb form of abhor is abhorrent and abhorrence.

Regarding the essay outlines, on prompt one there were syllogisms used. The essay needs a premise and a conclusion. The premise in prompt one is how cell phones distract people and the conclusion is how cell phones shouldn’t be permitted in certain areas.

(Emily liked my thesis)

In any essay, the thesis needs to include the extent one agrees or disagrees with the topic given.

Speaking of essays, EAP! TOMORROW!

Don’t fall into the trap of HASTY GENERALIZATION.

~Don’t be a racist, man. Never stereotype anyone! Luckily, Buddy Holly is marrying into a family of racists considering his anecdote about his mother-in-law to be and how she thinks black people are naturally athletic and the best at all sports~

Buddy Holly, “Example, Liono-ness.”

*The class laughs*

People are unlikely to stereotype unless it’s a joke in a community of that race.

Remember guys, be able to indentify arguments, state points in an essay, be clear, BOLD, and DON’T BE VAGUE.

Peace out, girl scouts.
-Ploenzke

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Scribe Notes: Mon 03.12.2012

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Knott’s Berry Farm!

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Scribe Notes: Thu 03.08.2012

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March 8, 2012

The day started with comma practice while waiting for Romo to come. The reasoning behind the coma practice was so that we no longer have to think about commas; it just occurs naturally.

Comma Practice

  • 5. Above, the U.S. Navy jets were flying in formation.
  • 6. “Help!” Arnie screamed suddenly, “Call Dad!”
  • 8. Are you, by chance, planning to go with us to the dance?
  • 11. We’ll go as soon as you’re ready.
  • 12. As soon as you are ready, we’ll go.
  • 13. Dad asked me, “Did you try out for the track team, Gwen?”
  • 17. The last performance, I thought, was the best of all.
  • 19. The little girl was short, chubby, wide-eyed, and smiling.
  • 20. When they finished the last sentence, the students sighed with relief!

Isaura, Vanessa R., Vanessa C., and Linda went to the front for the voice presentations.

Detail 17

  • Words to know:
  • Brood: a group (hatching)
  • Purt: something lively or in good health
  • Chickadee: a type of bird
  • Ya-honk: a goose noise

 

  • 1. The conclusion is a natural cycle of life. The details that support this are the noises of birds and different animals.
  • 2. The author feels the connection of being a part of a life cycle. The cool night, the wintery sky is not focused on because the author wants to focus only on the life cycle of the animals.
  • animals = focus = life cycle
  • night = no cycle
  • Apply
  • First Stanza
  • Romo’s detail on the night: “shivering night, pitch black midnight sky”
  • Second Stanza
  • No night? No problem!
  • Just take away the detail from the animals

Next we took time to do The Week reading log. We then took time to share our articles amongst our groups. After we chose the most interesting article, Eldridge called on a group, and we shared our articles.

Background Knowledge

  • Mario: Biologist found gurillas play tag. Children = hairless gurillas
  • Manny: German’s Catholic church = largest book seller. The church ells books on violence, books written by atheists, and books on porn. Yes, porn. “Sex sells,” said Eldridge.
  • Lizette and Otilia: Roman Catholic church is abusing and have been convicted of abusing children. The church would then pay the victims to keep them quiet.  Also, Ireland is separating from the Roman Catholic church because the sex scandals. “Roman Catholic church is corrupted,” exclaimed Otilia.
  • Romo: Iphone4s is reinforcing stereotypes because the voice on the phone is a woman’s voice. Woman = assistant. Call the phone a bisnotch and she will reply with “Why do you hate me? I don’t even exist.”
  • Jesus: Watson has two libraries full of information. Machines vs. humans. Machines won.
  • Albert: Barack Obama can freely murder Americans?
  • Khoa: John F. Kennedy’s former girlfriend made a memoir in which she recalled how her and JFK smoked weed together and got in a cat crash.
  • Ashley:  Euro zone catastrophe, Europe doesn’t want to pay for Greece’s debt.

We then received a new imagery packet and the virtue essay rubric. The rubric is to be stapled to the top of the final essay.

Tuesday Mr.Eldridge will be busy with his sophomores and the cahsee, so we will be sent some place else. We will be expected to work on our imagery packet and to take the practice EAP test.

We then went over the ethos/pathos review packet. READ DIRECTIONS.

Monday have number 3 done.

Tuesday have number 4 done.

Thursday have number 5 done.

 Ethos Review

  • 1. good will
  • 2. knowledgeable
  • 3. high moral character

Number 1 on the ethos/pathos review packet.

  • examples of ethos:
  • knowledgeable- “eighth century prophets, gospel of Jesus Christ, and Apostle Paul”
  • Good will- “we lived up to our promises”
  • High moral character- “I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom”
  • Martin Luther King Jr. uses anecdotes, parallelism, anaphora, nonviolence, and a safe tone.

Number 2 on the ethos/pathos review packet.

  • Answer = pathos.
  • examples of pathos: rhetorical questions brings audience’s attention to the British, the audience then responds emotionally with fear and distrust towards the British.
          Krisstal Martinez

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