APEnglish–Los Al

Period 4

hello 4th period!!

So as I walked into class today, there was a crowed huddled around a desk and to my horror I saw a large stack of very big packets. I eventually got over the shock and sat down at my table where Jordan was singing Silver Bells (which he did all period, btw).

After the bell rang, my table realized that we had to pass out the syntax worksheet which Brian eventually found and passed out. The BIG green packets were also passed out and Mr. E refused to answer any of Haley’s questions because of her USC shirt and jacket.

(11:11 happened and all the Whores made a wish. I don’t think anyone but us noticed Jordan’s shock when he found out what time it was)

I then heard Mr. E discuss that the reason we get headaches are because of the large supply of blood in the tiny blood vessels of our brains.

While we were working on our syntax, I gave my trope on Alliteration (repetition of the same letter or sound within nearby words. Most often, repeated initial consonants. Also alliterative words do not necessarily start with the same letter or letters and they are not necessarily repetition of letters or sounds in the beginning of a word) and recited Peter Piper.

right before discussing the syntax worksheet, the source of all evil in our class was discovered *cough Sean cough*. funny how even though he is not in class he still manages to distract us.

The syntax Worksheet
-the length of the sentence and the choice of words used cause the speaker to slow down to read the sentences.
-Jordan then read aloud “Dimmesdale’s Dream on the Ending Scaffold Scene” which caused Ed and Mr. E to question his sobriety.

we then quickly discussed the BIG green packet that was passed out to us, which contains excerpt from Thoreau’s Walden. this reading apparently will be even more confusing than Emerson’s.

Eventually we went on to finish Emerson’s Nature:
-A very important part of the reading surrounded the use of “eyeball.” Emerson, at that point in the reading, is no longer thinking, but has transcended from his physical world to an alternate world where he is part of God.
-He is able to be part of God by transcending through nature.
-He believes that everything that people worry about don’t truly exist, that they are a figment of our imagination.
-Nature will not seem beautiful or welcoming if you are in a horrible mood. the value of nature is determined by the view of man.

In the last minute before the bell rang, Mr. E passed out the nature quiz that we had taken yesterday, its purpose was for us to redeem ourselves.

And that concludes what happened this Tuesday morning.

Until next time,
Andrea

Period 5

Today was interesting…to say the least.

We started out with a syntax worksheet. The passage was written by D.H. Lawrence and it was about a person slowly wading into a pond.

We were also given a green document from Walden by Henry David Thoreau, who is apparently the transcendentalist hippie (Willy Avalos had mentioned something about Emerson being a hippie, but I guess that’s because we haven’t read Thoreau yet).

Chris Rini gave his trope on Metonymy (a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept). An example would be something along the lines of, “The White House issued a statement…”. If that sentence were to be taken literally, it would be a pretty strange house–probably haunted.

After Chris gave his trope, we went back to the syntax worksheet, and several people read their “apply” sections. Eldridge called on me twice to read mine but I didn’t because I suck at apply sections and I hadn’t finished yet. He also read Jordan Roberson’s insanely long apply section.

Then, we discussed Emerson’s “Nature.” Ryan Butcher tried to explain how “Nature” was one giant metaphor, but Eldridge shot him down. They agreed to disagree. When Eldridge picked on people to summarize, Alex Dessouky had a Zachglasser-esque “WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!” moment, except it was something along the lines of “WHY DO YOU ALWAYS CALL ON ME?” Oh, and if nature dies, your soul dies. The entire discussion was very deep and I think half the class was lost by the end of it.

***BRING THE SCARLET LETTER TO CLASS EVERY DAY.

RANDOM:

Eldridge: “WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS CLASS?!”

Eldridge: “Zach, no Seinfeld for you.”

Entire class: “BABY JESUS!”

Kirsten: “So what if you’re Buddhist?”

Kirsten: “Who has the scribe today? KIM, WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS!”

Kimberly: *writes JESUS in big letters*

Peace out,
Barnhill.

P.S., I don’t know if anyone else feel this way, but the fact that Emerson talked to vegetables makes me far less able to appreciate his writings.

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