APEnglish–Los Al

Period 4

I accidentally emailed it to brenteldrigde@hotmail.com the first time.

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Alright so first, the bell rings and Sean comes in a second late. He tries to pull it off smoothly and says hi to Mr. Egdirdle as if nothing was out of place, but Egdirdle decides he needs to punish Sean and tells him to sharpen a bunch of new pencils with the very old, dying pencil sharpener.

 

As usual, the daily worksheet was on our desks but as soon as everyone got settled in, I noticed there was a scramble to compare answers and figure out last minute tropes for the anticipated test… the one that we never got to.

Once everyone got started on the diction worksheet, a question arose: what does furrowed mean? Tristan volunteered to explain, but Mr. E decides that instead, he should attempt to draw it on the board for everyone to see. The first definition appeared to be a box with 2 trees and a line down the middle and the second appeared to be a very obese face with thinking creases on the forehead. The “furrowed” from the worksheet was referring to the second picture, in which a very distressed man had furrows on his forehead. Mr. E then goes off tangent to teach everyone about farming furrows where you plant seeds.

At this time, Sean was still having trouble sharpening the pencils because of the quality of the sharpener. ( period start: 11ish, Sean at sharpener: 11:30ish)

Finally, Sean managed to finish sharpening the pencils with only one that went terribly wrong. With this, he began a pencil throwing fight that lasted for the rest of the period.

After everyone passed in their diction sheets, we began to review the trope quiz practice sheet. Mr. E picked someone to read a question and then answer it, and hard ones were discussed in detail. We almost finished, but the bell rang, and hence, we did not take a quiz.

There will be a sub.

 

Period 5

Today was a pretty entertaining day in english.

First we did a diction worksheet about an old man who had a “furrowed” look of distress on his face, but then people were confused about what a furrow actually is. (No, its not a burrow, Zach.)  Then Jay had to draw a furrow on the board, but then Henry and other people drew a creepy old man with a monocle and Kolkin hair. It was pretty disturbing.

Next we went over the Trope quiz from yesterday, and talked about each of the questions and what all the tropes mean. You should know all of them because if you point them out in your Virtue Essay, you get extra credit! We discussed the perverseness of Romeo, which somehow led Ryan to yell “Its not rape if you yell surprise!”

Finally, we really should invest in a clock.

So that’s about it. Here are some inspiring words of wisdom:

“Don’t worry if your tasks are small and rewards are few, 
remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you!”
                                              – Henry Kim’s juice box

-Michelle

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