Daily Scribe Monday 10/20/2008 – Period 4
Posted on October 20, 2008 by Mr. Eldridge
Haaaay(:
Sorry guys, i had scribe yesterday but TOTALLY blanked. It might be because im sick and overly tired, but nevertheless sorrry.
So yesterday:
The class started with everyone being loud and talking all at once. Nicolette was trying to get Mr. Eldridge’s attention and he wasn’t even answering her. (I feel the same way all the time!) She eventually asked about the skit for the apply section and he said we were doing the pantomimes. So everyone got very loud and Mr. Eldridge nicely told Nicolette to be the person that twitches. Some teams went outside to practice and everyone was working on their pantomimes. Plus Olivia and Nadir were trying to talk to me at the same time about skating & how im crazy to get up at odd hours. 4am is a little hard especially when im sick(: Mr. Eldridge happened to point out that Keith, Ed, and Tristan? were triplets for the day instead of twins.
So we started doing the pantomimes. BIPs skit was good. Nadir wonderfully climbed on the other people being the basket and stone. it was quite entertaining. All groups had very good pantomimes and we all enjoyed Anthonys dolphin twitch and Tricia being called Twitcha. Mr. Eldridge started telling the story about the mayor of casterbridge story how the guy bet his family in poker and lost them. Very sad story.
We ended the period with reading the bedford about analysis pg339 and talking about specific indicative language. like when you point to a car and say car! michelle was kind enough to yell lesbian at olivia to close the period haha(:
elysha thomas!
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October 25th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I do have some curiosity about whether the people creating these Diction, Detail, Tone, Syntax sheets expect students to take the apply section seriously (in every case). For instance, this pantomime business. Not one group successfully acted out the scene. Violent, painful twitches were instead transformed to jumping, and sometimes strange flailing of the arms. I’m not sure the prompt was a decent idea – who can expect students to actually twitch in that manner?
And another thing I found strange. Usually the Journal Response prompts in Bedford are pretty universal and “nice.” For instance, if the story was about a kid and his or her father, the prompt would ask students to write about just a relative or friend (for those without fathers). And then one prompt seemed obscene to me, asking, “Have you ever begged on the street before?” Compared the other prompts, this one provoked laughter; who asks that?
October 25th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
It was actually me, Ed, and SeanWang that were triplets in the class. C’mon, pay attention Fifi.