APEnglish–Los Al

Period 4

I’ve been wondering why my scribe wasn’t put up on the blog, but then it turned out I never clicked the send button or I don’t know what happened… dangit. DARN!! ARGH now i’m rewriting it. agh.

Thursday, November 20.
When I walked into the room, the blue overhead computer projector light was shinging really bright. Don’t look into it. Mr. Eldridge told us to get to work straight away. It was already three minutes after the bell! So, we worked on our Diction worksheet, which was by William Buckley, who was very conservative and intelligent and also passed away (euphemism!) a couple of months ago. He was also the author of “Why Don’t We Complain?” in our Bedford Reader. While we worked on that, Mr. Eldridge talked about some SNL stuff I don’t know about. Also, some lady, who walked in our class and got water, talked to Mr. Eldridge about Lord of the Flies and her sabotaging the class.

Diction
-”dulcify” means to make sweet or agreeable. Buckley expects his audience to be intelligent
-”our” – Makes everyone a part of the states because people always assume they’re on the north aka winning side. The war is everybody’s problem.
-”the” is general, while “our” is first person, plural, possessive
-Tidy: spotless, structured, regulated, immaculate

After we finished the diction worksheet, Tera-Lynne did her powerpoint on euphemism. Powerpoint with voices = 10000000 e.c. points. The powerpoint’s already up, so you can take a look at that. BRAVO TERA-LYNNE!!!!!!!!!!!!! After her powerpoint, Mcgaugh kids talked about their custodians, not janitors, named Frank and Paul and Francesca? We sang a lot of songs at Mcgaugh too. Good times. Not really. And now you can’t hang out with more than two kids during recess. Does anyone know about that? Mr. Eldridge then redirected our focus to his lecture about argument.

Argument
-3 appeals: reason, emotion, character
-Montagu’s complexity of writing shows the complexity of her thinking

Too Much Pressure
-evidence comes from personal experience, parents’ experience, research.
-reasoned and emotional appeal
-fly was super annoying at this time of the period
-starts story with hypothetical example using narration and description to set up emotional impact of her argument
-makes it realistic for audience
-uses 2nd person to tie in reader

Why Don’t We Complain?
-argues that we’re lazy and passive, therefore not progressing forward
-America waits to be told what to do, making us lazy
-Buckley wants us to be a vibrant democracy

Tomorrow’s essay… which we already took.
-Have to produce our own argument
-Thesis has to either defend, challenge, or qualify
-need evidence- stats, anecdotes, personal reading, expoert opinion.
-have sufficient details to back up the evidence

The End

I’m really sorry about sending this late. Hopefully this helped! Only a couple more days until Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice day.

By Tricia Mar

Tera-Lynne’s PowerPoint Presentation on Euphemism:

Period 5

Hello Fellow AP’ers of Period 5 (The BEST period!)

I know that saying that period 5 isn’t technically correct, because when comparing two thingies you use better, but oh well. And note that since we have to write an argument essay tomorrow, I will support my argument with evidence. We are the better period because we have Michelle Einstein, whose smartness is reflected in her last name and who emanates an awesomeness that is hard to describe. And we also are illuminated by the Zachglasseresque Zachglasserisms of Zachglasser that are routinely emitted in quasi-Zachglasser-like intervals. So now is there any doubt that 5th period is the best period?[Rhetorical question] Anyways, class started out with a little diction worksheet by William Buckley, a conservative with whom Zachglasser would be excited to argue with if he were still alive, but Zachglasser will never be able to get that opportunity because Buckley has ventured into that great beyond [euphemism]. William Buckley used the word dulcify, instead of sweeten, to establish an intellectual tone. We then talked about our virtue essay, which stumped everybody yesterday, and looked at the example, which was very biblical in nature. She used the word nay (yes, you heard me correctly, nay! Nobody every uses that word any more). Need I say more?[rhetorical question] Anyways, we then seguéd into the essay that we have to write tomorrow, which is not about analyzing literature but about making an argument. We went over how important it is to have a position and evidence. The three things we have to do are to defend our position, challenge the opposing position, and qualify the arguments of both sides, taking into account context. So study your argument stuff tonight and hope for the best tomorrow.

P.S. I found three tropes in my scribe notes, which I identified with brackets. Be sure to do that with your virtue essays!

-Dylan Lee of the Procrastinating Mavericky Shakespereans, a.k.a. PMS
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DLee

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