APEnglish–Los Al

Period 4

Well no daily scribe would be complete without one very necessary statement so I’m going to start today’s scribe off with it TRICIA SAYS HI!!!  So upon entering English today I managed to make the great observation that Mr. Eldridge was not there instead there was a fake Mr. E who looked surprisingly like Mr. E aside from a smaller head as the class pointed out.  He said to call him Mr. Rock and for now the rest of his name shall remain a mystery.  First we received a diction sheet that had a lot of “Ahhh”s in it and talked about ponds and wombs that Haley skillfully managed to pronounce “wom” which lead to many cries of wom around the room and then led to me saying wom whenever I read womb.  Sean then grabbed Ethan’s glasses which led to Ed talking about the lenses on his glasses which then somehow led to Sean doing an awesome impression of Hiro from “Heroes” by yelling “Yataa” with his arms above his head, still with Ethan’s glasses on.  Melanie then failed repeatedly a popping a plastic lunch bag which eventually did break with a very pathetic sound.  Sean then tore off the bottom of the bottom of the plastic bag so only the quick seal thing remained and tried repeatedly to force it over his mouth chin and nose, he didn’t try to force it over his head because that would just be ridiculous (I took pictures of the whole thing).  This act was very entertaining to watch until the remainder broke.  Next Steven and I left to go take pictures for the windsurf club and in my absence Ethan took notes on the shenanigans going on in the class so I am now writing from his notes so most of this is not going to make sense.  I guess Mr. Rock was intimidated by Olivia and Steve (not Steven??) and slowly back away from them.  Next on Ethan’s notes I have Whaaamb!!!!! and JABBERWOCKY!!!! and then some quotes from Ed and Tristan. 

Ed:”I thought he was unbuttoning his Shirt”

Tristan: “Wishful thinking”  

Then apparently people’s minds go tired for shoot the bunny and the finger touch over the head thing circulated throughout half the class.  At this time I reentered the class and was welcomed with the cries “You Missed So Much!” from Sean, Ed, and Ethan.  The class then threw an onslaught of random names at Fake Eldridge and I think it was finally determined that is first name is Brandon.  Ed then thought of random names that Sean Wang should name his son and eventually landed on Harry Wang and laughed hysterically.  Finally at the end of class Sean started stripping and nearly took of his shirt when taking of his sweatshirt (no English class is complete until that happens).

- Shoeman Henson   

Period 5

What’s up everyone! First of all, in outside-of-English-class news, today was yearbook picture day, so people were leaving classes in every period to take various club pictures. Very exciting. We began class though, as always, with our warm-up diction sheet, which this time was a quote about a bone-like face and clouding hair. During which time several off topic tangents occurred, as usual. Erica announced to our group that she ate 75 carrots last night, while Henry admitted that he wished he had bigger boobs (don’t ask). Jay’s constant complaining about the lack of a clock led Eldridge to put up fake clock hands and a sign that said “The Time Is Now!”. Something about the diction quote led Mr. Eldridge to talk about how movies that use smoke and mist are usually very effective (even though, ironically, the movie The Mist sucked). This led Eldridge to describe what he said was a very good movie called Higher Education (filmed at UCLA!) in which the main character smoked a pipe. Smoking pipes is very sophisticated, according to Mr. Eldridge. Eldridge then explained how The Last Samuri was a joke of a movie.

In a very random moment, even for our class, at sometime during this whole conversation Henry began rambling about the Simpsons theme song, which caused Eldridge to nearly fall out of his chair as he ran to the board to write “WTF Henry!” Definitely a highlight of the day. Mr. Eldridge then began reading a passage from a very weird book called White Noise where a family conversation full of misinformation digresses in tangents and randomness. Very appropriate for our class.

The next thing we did was a worksheet in which we had to determine the parts of speech of the made-up words in the poem “Jabberwocky”. Words like brillig, gyre, gimble, frumious, and Jubjub. The translation of the poem was basically a boy kills the evil Jabberwock and becomes a hero. Henry and I then had to leave to take club pictures for Speech and Debate, so I missed part of the period. I was told though that there was something along the lines of a phone conversation between Eldridge and Ryan while I was gone. Whatever.

I returned to see Mr. Eldridge reading off from his computer Humpdy Dumpdy’s explanations of the meanings of the fake words in the poem. Naturally, I was confused, so I asked “Wait, who’s Humpdy Dumpdy?”, to which the class responded by reciting the Humpdy Dumpdy rhyme. But I knew who Humpdy Dumpdy was, just not why he was commenting on the Jabberwocky poem. Eventually I just had to settle with the fact that Humpdy Dumpdy knows all. The bell rang shortly after, and that just about sums up another strange day in 5th period English! I leave you with Henry’s juice box quote of the day: “He who throws mud only loses ground”. Very profound.

-Zach

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