Goodbye — Hello
Dear AP students 2006-7, I’ll miss you. It’s been a exhilarating year. I hope you have been challenged and have succeeded. Take some well-earned weeks off and then get back to it: read some great books so you can be ahead of the game next year…
Dear AP Students 2007-8. Wow, it’s already here: that is, summer reading! This summer’s book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (don’t ask me why he uses F instead of Francis). It’s a wonderfully written story full of drama, romance, seduction, lies, drunken fights, drunken driving, and even tragic deaths. But it’s no Hollywood story.
I’ve got a study guide put together for you, so no need to worry: you won’t be reading blind. I’ve also got a website set up at http://mreldridge.net/. Currently, it’s set up for the spring semester 2007, but, no fear, it will be updated over the summer as we prepare for a great year in AP English.
Veterans: keep in touch. Newbies: I hope to be hearing from all of you very soon.
Best wishes.
Filed under: Announcements, Summer Reading and
what do u mean by wow? is that a positive or negative wow?
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I think it’s positive. I can hardly remember, we were so busy at the end of the year
. (Isn’t amazing how fast the year moves. At first it seems like it will never come and then when it’s here, it feels so fast.)
I’m really into positive comments. Even my sarcasm, Elizabeth, is in the spirit of fun & not in the spirit of tearing anyone down. Right now I’m like: WOW! I just logged on to the blog and there’s 6 new comments–and I’m stoked.
Have fun w/o me tomorrow, I’ll miss you guys.
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ok so this is irrelevant but yea….we’re reading Grendal…thats not cool….i hated Beowulf but its all good
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Grendel’s nothing really like Beowulf, except that the author uses the structure of Beowulf to tell a story (a story that’s inside Beowulf–it will all make sense later). Grendel’s really on a very different, very modern wavelength.
And with a little luck, I hope you’ll at least appreciate Beowulf a little. I’ll never try to make you like something (even if I wished you did). But I will demand that you all appreciate and understand a work before you get to pass judgment.
Finish that Gatsby work, everyone!
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hmmm….talking about Beowulf and Grenedel-the movie…my previous comment was kind of vague but yes the movie was boring and the dialogue was hard to follow but I did like the book i think-the story was easier to follow and the movie was quite action pack and irrelevant… so yea i agree as for Grendel the book,I dont know because I haven’t read it yet but if it isnt written in old english yea enough said
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once again, this is not my blog comment thingy -.-;
but uh, i dont know where to comment. all i see are.. scribes and really really old gatsby stuff.
on a side note, i think that he uses his middle name because Francis S. Fitzgerald is harder to say than… F. Scott Fitzgerald =]
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The old Gatsby stuff can be found if you look under categories (on the right) and click on The Great Gatsby: there’s at least 14 posts so far. There you should get a list of titles with dates. Read on.
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Mr ELDRIDGE, ARE WE EVER GOING TO WRITE NARRATIVES THIS YEAR? PROBABLY NOT, BUT I MIGHT AS WELL ASK. NARRATIVES IS WHAT I AM BEST AT
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man… i don’t usually like narratives… i always feel that the way i write them is childish… you saw my island journal story… gahhhh lame… but yeah mr. eldridge, if we are going to be writing narratives this year let us know. then i’ll be sure to warm up my limited amount of narrative writing skills.
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well, i consider myself decent at narratives but the way i like to write makes me look like the Virginia tech kid
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Pierre, that is so scary! what a creepy comparison!!
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wow an entire year old.
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wow!
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