Alright, now that we’re in to the swing of the school year, let’s move on to one of my favorite etymologies. This week’s etymology comes to us from the Middle Ages-and for a Medievalist like me the best things come from that ever entertaining millennium.
Our word is assassin, one who murders by surprise or [...]
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Before Class began(outside of the classroom waiting for Mr. Eldridge):
Lauren to Xtina: You guys lost to Brazil 3-0. (weird but ok)
It’s 6:55 am and People are sill waiting outside of class in the cold for Mr.Eldridge to arrive
6:58 more people arrived and we’re still waiting for Mr.Eldridge (ummm it’s still cold)
Jaime and Kayla are talking [...]
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okay, this is really late. but i have a good excuse! [insert good excuse here]
people said i sounded really frustrated (eldridge) and mean (randy) for my last scribe day. so ill try to be happy happy. =D
uhmm, last thursday was a minimum day, so class was cut short. YAY! the class started off with [...]
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hi all!
So we came into class, and on the board was a most… interesting picture! It was a contemporary painting with many abstract features. It was obscurely of a man painting, but it was so much more than that, too for one frame! The man painting had 2 right hands and one of them had [...]
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-classwork
The Critical Writing response is due on Monday
We started off by doing the Imagery warm-up. The section was analyzed. We came up with a person being trapped. Their were strong symbolism like the dog being tied to the tree, the father yelled at her, the cop was there also. It represented imprisonment. In those times [...]
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The class walked into the class and there was a picture of Vincent van Gogh. We talked about the differences between two images of him. The first, Van Gogh looks a little older, the second, he looks younger and atuned with all around him. We learned how imagery affects the emotions of the audience.
**Rude interruption [...]
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I just discovered that our blog was considered one of the most interesting on the World Wide Web. This was written about you guys:
The site with the most student involvement was by Mr. Brent Eldridge, http://brenteldridge.edublogs.org/. There were amazing conversations that included the students and it seemed as if everyday a student would write a [...]
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-Classwork
We started out the day with an Imagery Handout
Volunteers passed back graded worksheets
We had a discussion about the Imagery handout
Imitate/mimesis/mimetic
We talked about how the paragraph had a drum rhythm to it which kept the sentence going at a steady pace.
Tropes in “Of Studies”: Parallelism, Antithesis, Ellpsis, Asyndeton
Then we discussed the “Of Studies,” writing from [...]
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It’s been inked.
You should have gotten a phone call tonight re: our rescheduled date: this Thursday–@ 12:15.
So get in touch with your freshman. Note any phone numbers that aren’t working. Leave that call log in my box. We’ve got food for 600, music, a water balloon toss. We’re also open to suggestions. If you can [...]
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class took ten minutes to start as usual. during those ten minute, mr. eldridge looks at me and says, “Elisa! you’re our scribe!” or something along those terms. =\ well duh.. it was written on the board. -.-;
anyways while we were working on our imagery worksheet, ten million pages of finished and graded work [...]
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