Well, today was once again a magical day in English, starting off by the class waiting outside because Mr. E was late, and while waiting Tristan threw a package of candy at me, awesome. As we walked into the room, once again most of the class population started complaining about a rancid smell, which Keith [...]
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“Pour it all in! Pour it all in!” Mr. Eldridge yelled at Gellen while she ate her candy at the beginning of class. A new responsibility list was introduced to us which contains a specific job for each group to maintain for the week. We then went over the journal to essay which is due [...]
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Period 5 Scribe 9/29/08 So, are you ready for MAGIC? Well too bad! This is the daily scribe, not magic. Hmm, where to start? Well, this is Alex Kolkin (or according to Mr. Eldridge, AK-91 because my namesake was a producer of high-quality machine guns for peasants, some Russian guy with a really long name) [...]
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By Ed Guo Extra-Credit of the Week #5 The name of what major US city is an anagram of ILL – SHAVEN. The class started out as usual with a worksheet. Syntax. Yahtzee started to talk about French people saying “sheet of paper.” It’s kinda obvious what that comes out like. As we worked on [...]
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So today in Mr. Eldridge’s AP English class, it started off just like any day. As soon as Michelle and I walked in, we smelled something funny. And as always, there was a worksheet on our desk and it was an Imagery worksheet. Suddenly, people kept telling Mr. E all about how last night there [...]
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Every year, The University of Chicago rolls out the topics for its much vaunted UNcommon Application. It is chock full of oddities and a bizarre twist or two–in fact, it kind of reminds me of you all. So much more fun, though, than the run of the mill, “Tell us why you’re right for our [...]
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Today started like any other Hatly Wednesday in Mr. Eldridge’s favorite class, period five. For those of you that do not know, Hatly Wednesday is the tradition (I want to say inspired by the ancient Romans but I cannot be sure) of wearing a hat every Wednesday–not to be confused with Moccasin Monday or Funny [...]
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SCRIBE 9/24/08 Once again the putrid smell radiates off the walls of Mr. Eldridge’s room. Surprising it was worse today. If you happened to miss class, you were lucky. I was ready to keel over and choke to death. Btdubs, that was a hyperbole, or exaggeration, I just used; thanks Andrew for presenting that fabulous trope [...]
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Here’s an old post that I enjoyed and I thought would be a nice way to start the first official week of Autumn…. Today’s word is a word so common we may forget its history; and it seems so obvious, we forget that we are the product of 2500 years of work and refinement-and we’re [...]
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Okay, so I was still unsure of what exactly to say in these things but here it goes: hey fourth period. so this is the gist of what went down in english today: 1- we did the imagery worksheet and learned to use rhythm in our writing and to pay attention to word choice in [...]
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