Posted on October 31st, 2007 by naomilomeli
Today in class:
**Bell rang- everyone was extremely excited about Halloween, and talked about their plans for the evening
-weather was very foggy, it set a very creepy Halloween tone
**Imagery worksheet- excerpt from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
-it compared and contrasted images of the sea and land
-Joseph Conrad: was originally Polish, English was his third language, [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by imaniijones
So these are my scribe notes for Halloween…
(Basically a series of side conversations followed by a lecture)
So we started class off with some discussion about some lady who farted
Eldridge passes out [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Mr. Eldridge
Famed Italian Tenor Luciano Pavarotti passed away this last September 6 at the age of 71. He has been recognized as arguably the greatest opera tenor of the second half of the twentieth century. He grew up in Modena, a city and region famous for its wonderfully delicious food, the son of a [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2007 by schuylerroyal
We were given Imagery 6 at the beginning of the period, which was on imagery (DUH). As usual, groups began working on their worksheets, and Mr.E made his way around the room, conversing casually. Numerous essays and past worksheets were passed back as we worked diligently on the Image sheet. We discussed the imagery from [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2007 by naomilomeli
This is what happened in class today
**The bell rang (its annoying everyone), but don’t worry, eventually we will get our old bell back….Hopefully very soon!!
**The imagery worksheet was passed out it was on an excerpt from The Woman Warrior, written by Maxine Hong Kingston
-there was a lot of confusion because no one could [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Mr. Eldridge
Stupid comes from a Latin root stupidus, “amazed” or “confounded.” It literally meant to be struck senseless (this comes from stupere, stunned; from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)tupe- “hit,” from base *(s)teu-). And this only seems appropriate from Roman culture that always prized a good fight-those Romans were always spoiling for a new war [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by luannybarquero1
Scribe Notes
Brought to you by:
Ms. Luanny Barquero
WHAT HAPPENED?
-passed back work
*didn’t get your work back? Check with Mr. E. Maybe you forgot to put your name on it!!!
-Imagery 5
*T.S. Elliot, “The Wasteland”
*sound—>meaning—>feeling—>connotations—>purpose
*when you analyze something, you are dividing it into its parts
*tolling
~ringing
*auditory image
~an image portraying a sound
-put essays that were passed back in our folders
-Concrete [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by HIDALGO
Beginning of Class:
9:51- All graded work was passed back to the class
9:56- Mr. Eldridge passes out a sign-up sheet for conferences based on out outside reading books
9:59- Tara takes a bite of her hotdog bread PB&J sandwich
10:03- Cistern is an artificial reservoir; stores water underground
The class begins discussion based on the imagery worksheet
10:06- Tara says, [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2007 by Mr. Eldridge
Well, this is not really about counting birds, but more about how to name the groups of birds. Since we just reviewed essays that worked with descriptions of birds, I thought this was an interesting tangent.
Below is a list of different group names for birds. My personal favorites are a “murder of crows” [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2007 by andreavocos
Please excuse my lateness in writing these scribe notes!
Ok, I guess I’ll go straight to the point:
-The Process Analysis essay was due “today”.
-Half of the class was missing due to the Haunted Homecoming assembly.
-A Detail sheet was handed out today, and it was written by Tennessee Williams! (of The Glass Menagerie fame)
-it seemed as though [...]
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