as usual i was late to class so i don’t really know what happened during the first 10 mins.
syntax #16. yay.
we did a 20 min. workshop thing for our virtue essays. it was difficult finding people who actually did it.
eldridge said our essays need to stop looking like rough drafts & that he’d let us [...]
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Charles de Montesquieu once said, “The love of democracy is that of equality.” Now this could be interpreted in many ways but I believe he meant that when in the eyes of the law all men are equal. As we have seen many people have some very opposite views about the state of equality that [...]
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First off, I would like to apologize for leaving a gap in the daily scribe section for this long of a time. Not sure if this still counts as points but either way I’m happy that I’m actually getting this done. I’m trying to get myself back on track, and so far it seems to [...]
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-Our fellow classmates passed back work.-Grade sheets were passed out.
-We went over Thoreau’s questions, from the packet.
-We did syntax sheet, number 15.
-Mr. Eldridge, showed us an ad, of a tic-tac picture with people inside of it… then we analyzed it as a class.
The question was: What do we see?
The people representing this ad, are [...]
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Today:
Syntax #15
We corrected our answers from the quiz on Monday.
Mr. Eldridge showed us some advertisements and we talked about them.
We discussed in groups about our own advertisements.
Mr. Eldridge gave us an assignment for the advertisements in which we had to answer some questions of the groups best advertisement.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbrenteldridge.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F02%2F27%2Fscribe-of-the-day-22708%2F’;
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- Syntax 14 passed out.
- We looked at the Imitation section of CR, which starts on page 411. Mr. E. reminded us that we all started writing by first imitating. He then told us about the imitation homework. Choosing from one of the specimen passages, we are to copy – word for word – [...]
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- Worked on Syntax 14:
> Eric Hoffer’s “The Fanatics”
- class discussion
> Rhetoric: Art of Persuasion
*ex: advertisement
~ satirical= political
* How to persuade
~ Who is your audience?
~ Know your whole audience
~ Cultural Knowledge
○ well read
○ scholarly information
○ politics
○ U.S. History
* ex: Achilles
~ strong emotion: disorganized and very passionate
~ emotion, reason, ethos=character
> Allusion: [...]
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Ironically, I was absent on Monday, but Kevin was nice enough to fill me in on what happened so I could do these scribe notes Thanks!
At the beginning of class, Syntax 13 was passed out and discussed.
The quote was taken from John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men”. In this sentence, we learned how [...]
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SCRIBE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22ND
Imagery #16
Gastronomic Delight= Good Food
Late Work Due
Walden
Railroad Section: metaphor for people
Thoreau says that most people aren’t awake
By protesting. People are awakened and [...]
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-Imagery worksheet 16
-*Theoreau Notes
-advocates simplicity in life
-advocates lessening the need or want of material things
-thinks that pple slumber through the day
-Dawn=actually being awke
-When people are inspired they are able to keep going even when tired.
-Divine inspiration,muse?
-DaDa Art
-”progress”
-Railroad Metaphor
-We need to improve internally to REALLY improve
-Railroads don’t matter unless the people who made them were actually [...]
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