Daily Scribe Thursday 10/23/2008 – Period 4
First of all, I’d like to say MOLE DAY!!!!! WOO MOLE DAY!!!!11!!!! MOLEY MOLEY MOLEY MOOOOOLLEEEEE DAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
Well, Mr. Eldridge wasn’t here today so we had Mrs. Bennett. Apparently she started trope presentations right away, and Olivia presented hers on Epistrophe. Then Ed pretended to be me for my trope on Paradox, which somehow led to him hiding behind the podium for 10 minutes. Sorry if I’m not very clear on details, Mrs. Bennett sent Keith, Piggy and me to get a box of “school supplies” from her car (suspicious). Anyways, after getting hassled by all the narcs because we looked very suspicious walking around the teacher’s parking lot pressing buttons and taking boxes, we went back and I had to present my trope again. ITS MOLE DAY!!!!!! During the trope, Mrs. Bennett accused Tristan of being a hooligan. Oh, speaking of which, the tables of Bananas and Epics were pushed together for some reason? Team White Bread was on the couch, and it looked like Bicarbonate was having a feast. Or maybe it was just Colleen. After the paradox trope, Keith presented anaphora entirely in anaphora. Or so he claims. Tricia then presented her trope of Oxymoron, but unfortunately without any oxymoron in her speech. For some reason, someone wrote Matt Cravens 4 Mr. Irres. on the board yet no one noticed. It was probably Keith. It was then decided that balloon hats had very distracting, and Mrs. Bennett started rambling about how listening is the most important skill, which then turned into speaking, or something. I lost focus halfway through, but it’s okay, because ITS MOLE DAY!!!! WOOO MOLE DAY!!!! Then Steve presented her trope on Antaclasis, and apparently Ben Franklin was a master of it. But then, so is MIKE JONES. (who?) A bit of confusion ensued when the class could not find the detail work sheet on MOLE DAY WOO MOLE DAY!!!!!!!, and Tricia sneezed TWICE. Soon the detail worksheets were found, and the sea turtles were brutally attacked. Oh, and Tricia does not say hi. In fact, she says she hates you. Yes, you. She told me specifically to not to say hi to you, but only YOU. To everyone else, however, Tricia says hi. HAPPY MOLE DAY!!!!!! MOLE DAY WOOOOOOO!!!11!!!!!!11 MOLEY MOLEY ZACK GLASSER NNNNRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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October 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I’m a little worried about how out of control you all sound. You know and understand that you’re supposed to be better than good when a sub is there–no matter who the sub is.
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I’d say that’s probably due to my mediocre scribe skills. Saying that we are better than good when a sub is there is a gross understatement.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
We didn’t even do anything wrong…the sub was just really paranoid with every little thing that happened. She wouldn’t even let us drink water because she didn’t like the sound of the plastic bottles crinkling.
Oh yeah…Sean, you forgot to say how the sub gave Ed the Stink Eye every time he glanced at her. It was pretty scary.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Wait… Why is Nikki D. nicknamed Steve?
¿¡¿Que?!?
Don’t worry Mr. Eldridge, we weren’t too bad. I think the sub was a little hard of hearing, yet thought we were talking during the trope presentations. I didn’t find our cacophony any louder than normal days…. but she got into a rant about how we needed to be a good audience/listeners so we could give people the chance to hone their public speaking skills by presenting their tropes without interruption… (even though the majority of the class was at least paying attention)
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
She gave me the stink-eye too!!!!
but not as potent as the ones she gave to Ed… those were brutal
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
wow steven, you’re on here pretty late.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
hahah
i was not the only one having a feast >=OO
hahaha
our table always has a feast what are you talking aboutt xP
October 24th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
My trope was really bad. The sub talked about how people need to work on public speaking skills and how public speaking is really important and everybody needs to be good at speaking right after I finished my trope!!!!!! BECAUSE ITS TRUE!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and does that mean I hate myself? wah..
October 24th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
haha tricia your trope was fine(:
but the highlight of that class was definitely ed pretending to be seanwang while sean was gone and the sub believing it til we told her and then she thought she made a mistake. plus ed was curled up in a ball behind the podium ahahha(:
October 24th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Ha ha, when me Sean and Keith went to the car, it took us like 10 munutes to find her car in the abyss of the parking lot in front of the school. When we finally got to the car, we opened the door and the car smelt horrible and was so steamy. Yeah, she made us listen to like four or five tropes in a row; this was torture because oral presentations are kinda boring. O well , we should have more days like this with ELDRIZIE!!!!!!
October 25th, 2008 at 12:08 am
I concur. Our class was extremely well behaved. It’s Mrs. Bennett who cannot be taken seriously; I remember a time in ninth grade when she was the sub in Mrs. Smith’s fourth period english class and she went off on some wild tangent and started talking about the mosaic stones needed to make urns in ancient times, and she demonstrated how small the pieces of rock were by holding up her middle finger and comparing them to her nail. I was appalled (but extremely amused at the same time). I think we were supposed to be reading the Odyssey during that period, but we couldn’t work on it at all because she demanded that we drop everything and pay attention to her. Then we had to do the assignment that was supposed to be completed in class at home. :/
But yeah, we do need to work on our presentations a little more. I vaguely remember Eldridge, in the beginning of the year, saying something about not just reading our trope papers out loud…but it seems that is all we have been doing. Hmm…
October 25th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I actually like Mrs. Bennett, because she is so happy and cheerful, like a jolly pumpkin. In Ms. Brosius’s class we were reading Prufrock and we came upon this line: “Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach”
Ms. Bennett then said that white flannel trousers were very youthful and inappropriate for Prufrock, who is aging. She then said to imagine her in a bikini, running along the beach at sunset with her hair flapping behind her. That would be like prufrock wearing white flannel trousers, very inappropriate. For some reason or another, the image of Ms. Bennett clad in a bikini running along the beach has always stayed in my mind.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hahaha Dylan Lee, you hit the nail on the head. Mrs. Bennett is exactly like a jolly pumpkin.
Oh and Tera-Lynne I remember in ninth grade she went on the same rant about mosaics to Mrs. Smith’s third period!
Hah she also randomly had a teacup in one of her car’s drink holders … strange.
And Wang, you are making false accusations on two accounts: 1) I did not say I was presenting entirely in anaphora, just that my “Why use Anaphora?” section was anaphorized, and 2) It was not I who wrote on the board; I think it was that hoodlum Winnie Wang.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Speaking of Mrs. Bennett, for those of you who attended McAulliffe, do you remember Ms. Devine? She was this elderly lady who was a little less jolly than Ms. Bennett. Actually, she was a lot like Ms. Bennett, in that she went on tangents all the time (she went from talking about her cat Jimmy to how ketchup is made in one class). The maid difference was probably the fact that she was traumatized by some incident of niceness as a youth and vowed avenge that act by spending the rest of her days being a total *insert vulgar expletive here* to everyone she met. Yeah Ms. Devine. You heard me right. I just called you a *insert a vulgar expletive here*. Anyways, she used to be very mean to a particular student for no apparent reason. It was horrible, but it was strangely mesmerizing. It’s just like freshman year when I was in Dr. Coriaty’s class and there was this kid who sat next to me who never did his reading. Dr. Coriaty would put him on the spot all the time and the kid who sat next to me would just get clobbered by Dr. Coriaty’s questions. It was like watching a gladiator fight between the Ph.D and the student. Like I said, strangely mesmerizing. I guess that’s why we purchase wrestling and boxing tickets; we want to see some carnage like the Romans once did, only less so. And football too. My family considers a football game a waste of time if there aren’t any injuries involved. If we aren’t watching football to see the players clobber and maul each other over a pigskin, what are we watching it for?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
i totally remember mrs. bennett’s rant in 9th grade. i had her again last year and she threatened to chop up and boil anyone that is misbehaving hahaha
October 26th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Yeah.. we were actually pretty well behaved. It wasn’t amazingly hard to listen to five tropes in a row, but I think it was just the fact that it was mole day.. and friday combined that had us wired.
And yeah, whats up with not allowing us to drink water during class… that wasn’t nice on her part. What if one of us was severely dehydrated and was about to take a minuscule sip o water but NOPE, had to put them away because they “crinkle.”
As for public speaking, we all have our faults. Obama says “umm” and “uhh” a lot and McCain just substituted that with “my friends.” Even politicians have problems, but I guess the older ones use different words for their lack of thought times.
and now.. back to homework
October 26th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
ummm i don’t really know what to say. I kind of forgot about this and was reminded just recently by a fellow classmate to post a blog. So for lack of a better conversation I will contribute to the water bottle fiasco during Ms. Bennett’s presence. The initial water bottle problem was a result of the sound of “crinkle” that is provoked by the simplest touch. this sound handicapped the class and made them go thirsty for the rest of the long 54 minutes. Then I was sabotaged by my fellow Bananas in Pajamas. One of them, for I myself don’t know the culprit, thought it would be funny to puncture holes in the top of my bottle so that when I drank from it water would spill all over me. Unfortunately elysha asked to see my water bottle, i think to check the number on the bottom, and turned it upside down which resulted in a mass dampening of her nice purse. Common Incredulous remarks were soon spoken, apparently to the discontent of Ms. Bennett, for it elicited a stink eye punctuated with a fierce point towards the current orator. Well my work here is done. And so is my TSL thanks to the short questions. Would never have them done by now otherwise…though I still have to do the classification outline.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
so, i left comments before but for some reason it did not post. probably because i am technologically handicapped as the big E felt necessary to declare to the whole class. thanks for that by the way.
tristan, that is a fairly genius prank so you have to give the culprit a little credit.
but i think that the sub wasnt giving everyone the stink eye. i think her face just wrinkles into that expression. like the girlfriend or prom date of the main guy in JUNO. you know how she gave juno the stink eye in class but it just so happens her face was molded that way… yea.. like that..
oh and steven, dont ask where the nickname steve came from. it started in eighth grade but i still cant really figure it out. they say its for “one legged steve” (because i was on crutches that year) but the name still doesnt really make sense..
who knows about those AP kids!!?
October 26th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!
i am sooo dumb.
i cant find the tsl questions.
i printed them out earlier and lost those ones.(irresponsible i know) but now i cant find them and i am kind of throwing a B.F. if you know what i mean
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
whoever happens to know and if you sign on after me PLEASE let me know.
umm. by email i guess: nic_douglas@hotmail.com
October 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
In response to Tera-Lynn..did anyone else notice that Olivia tried to not just read her paper and let us read the examples to ourselves, but the sub made her against Mr. E’s instructions to us in the beginning of the year??
October 27th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I don’t care what anyone says, Mrs. Bennett or Ms. Bennett or whatever is the greatest human alive. She told my class last year that Nathaniel Hawthorne was a beautiful man and that she wanted to date him! Weird much?
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Haha, I’m a tag