APEnglish–Los Al

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 figure out what a gourd was, and the dictionary was not much help

-Gourd: A vegetable that can be hollowed out for use as bowls, cups, or to hold stuff, after it’s been dried out

**Future Teachers of America (Andrea and Jamie) left at 7:00 for their field trip to Cal State Fullerton, I hope you guys had fun J

**Then, we discussed the Imagery worksheet and turned it in

**We went over the Concrete and Specific Worksheet

-abstract: you can’t touch (emotions), because they are not solid

-general to specific: you communicate feelings more clearly to elicit an emotional response

EX: tree =oak tree

**In essays always be specific

-what one word might mean to you does not necessarily mean the same thing to another person

EX: The writer wants to implant this in your brain.

-OUCH!!!!

**Mr. Eldridge mentioned the Cartesian Coordinates post on the blog

-had a math lecture on imaginary numbers, because no one has commented on the post, except for a few people

-Its hard to think of yourself as a math equation

-you have to apply the natural language of mathematics to English metaphorically = everything in life is a metaphor

-this was an admissions question one year for the University of Chicago (yikes!)-those people are being challenged to think outside the box

**Isaac did his trope on Anataclasis

-it involves the repetition of a single world or phrase, but with a different meaning the second time

**Analysis is the division of something,

-purpose: to understand each part individually and then be able to understand the whole

**Monday’s reading

-refers to all stereotypes about wives in 1972 (Feminist Movement “I am a woman hear me roar”)

-women get paid 70% of what men do

-Mrs. means Mistress of husband’s name

Today’s Lesson in Life: If you don’t understand concepts, you will eventually be replaced by a machine. Get involved and question things. Computers can only reproduce what we give them. Humans have the ability to invent new things.

Our randomness in class

***Annie Dillard is a GIRL not a guy; Annie is a girl’s name even though Anthony argues that it is also a boy’s name because Obi Won calls Anakin, Annie in Star Wars.

***We were talking about how something that is not natural is supernatural in the second discussion question on the imagery worksheet, and eventually Mr. Eldridge started a discussion on a guy called Supernatural- he holds the record for rhyming in the Guinness World Record Book.

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