Scribe: 1.15.2009
Period 4
** Disclaimer** its hard to write a educational scribe notes when most of the educational activities we did today were individual…but I promise Mr. E, it wasn’t chaos!! Remember this is out of context!!!
First of all, Trisha AND MELANIE say hi!! So today started off, for me at least, with Jordan walking over to our table and we talked about The SCARLET LETTER ESSAY!!!!!! Then Ed decided he was going to dent Mr. E’s water bottle as revenge for Sean’s being thrown yesterday (ellipse). Then the sub passed out a (green) detail worksheet from “The Dead” by James Joyce. Then the sub took roll and said Nadir’s name right, but Elysha is now Elijah, Sean/YiXiang is now “no chance”. During roll, I looked over to see Sean holding a pencil bag covered in the Disney Princesses…weird. Then we all worked silently (silent for us anyway) on our detail worksheets/Scarlet Letter essays for a while until there was a mad scramble to steal Sean’s Chex Mix. Then someone, I think Brian, announced to the sub that rule # 1 is “DON’T LISTEN TO NIKKI D!!!!!” Especially when she wants to take the quiz the sub has. Then Olivia yells at all to shut up and it gets amazingly quiet, almost Timed Write Essay quite. Patrick came over to our table to discuss the detail worksheet and we were in deep discussion with my list of tone words for help when a car alarm went off and Ed decided it was his and he should be allowed to go outside and turn it off. The Brian threw something at Sean, Sean didn’t notice. Then the sub yelled “QUITE” and Andrew, under his breath added “Thank God!” Then Sean started flashing a hand crank flash light in everyone’s eyes. Then Steven came over to our desk because he “wanted to get away from Nikki D’s crazy activities. The colleen announced she’s hungry, but she’s always hungry so that’s okay. “Nikki D induces” says Steven. Then we started talking about staying up all night long doing homework every night and how Starbucks is AMAZING!! Except Steven doesn’t agree “because they over-roast their beans. Pete’s is better. Not to mention Starbucks is everywhere. I (Steven) pass three on my way to school”. Then as it got closer and closer to lunch everyone got hungrier and the topic (at my table anyway) turned to food. YogurtLand, Guppy’s, Shaved Ice, BoBa is like tea tapioca (I don’t know…apparently it’s an Asian thing), and humus (colleen only knows about it from Zohan). Then Sean attempted to remove the dent from his water bottle from Mr. E’s attack yesterday. Steven said something about his shoulder’s hug his ears, I think it had to do with his apply section which led to earrings and piercing in general. Andrew doesn’t like them, he thinks they’re gross. Apparently the sub got bored of watching us so diligently working on all our work, so he started playing cards on Mr. E’s computer…I think solitaire. Then Sean starting using his water bottle top as a monocle…I think Brian has pics…and then the sub let us out a tad bit early so I got to the food line early. All in all this was a very interesting day in AP English Language and Composition.
See you all tomorrow before our THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!!!
Period 5
Hello 5th period!
Today, we had a sub, which meant that that Mr. Eldridge wasn’t here (darn!), which meant things got kind of dreary, which turned out to be ok as we were able to work on our homework and our essays. Since we had a sub, who looked very bored and not a little terrified by our raucous bacchanals and orgies of merrymaking, nothing of great educational import happened today (zounds!). [litotes] Our Scarlet Letter Essays that we dutifully finished over the break are due tomorrow. Because there is nothing much left to say, I am going to point out that Zachglasser, Callie Aaker et al were singing a delightful little ditty from the Lion King. It was quite melodious, and the harmony pleased the ear and warmed the cockles of the heart. I didn’t know the name of the song, so when I got home I did some googling, and through much googling, I found this lovely clip (below). It is quite delightful. It is also the song that they were singing during class. Also, today, Callie Aaker locked Zachglasser in Ms. Meider’s class. I don’t know how, but she did. It was quite humorous.
Dylan Lee
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Wow. that was a very delightful clip.
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Kinda confused as to why Steven kept referring to himself in the third person but otherwise, yeah, that’s how the day went.
The clip was very cool too. I used to watch the Lion King every week when I was young and I used to wonder why my mom didn’t like my like simba’s mom did
. hahahaha.
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Yes, yesterday was completed chaos, eventhough I spent the class talking to Olvia. We seriously lived about 10 miles away from each other almost 7 years ago; she lived in cupertino and I resided in Sunnyvale. Too bad none of you so cal kids know nothing about the bay area and how amazing of a place it is to live in.
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that lion king snippet was very nicely done dylan!
bravooooo
haha
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Haha the image of Callie and Zach singing this song is going to be permanently etched in my brain.
Also, I like all the vastly different types of subs we have had. There has been Mrs. Austin, Mrs. Bennet, the older guy sub who liked discussing the Vietnam war, the elderly woman who told me about her excellent blueberry pie recipe, and now this sub who, I’m not really sure what to say about. It would be interesting to lock them in a room together and see what happens.
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I would also add the Dr. Coriaty to the fray. I think that would be very interesting. There are also many other people I would like to lock in a room to see what happens. One good example is Richard Dawkins vs. Rick Warren. It would be EPIC to see them have a rhetorical free for all. The Amazing Atheist and SuperChristian would be their superhero names respectively. Other pairs: Ann Coulter vs. Michael Moore as the Wicked Witch of the Right and the Liberalator; and Chuck Norris and Nicolas Sarkozy as Chuck Norris and the Super Carla Bruni Marrying Socialist, respectively.
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The sub who talked about Vietnam was a crack up, he came into history one day and went from vietnam->economics, he explained the wholleeeeeeee economic crisis in super detail with all the names of the acronyms and no one understood anything then he yelled at me to keep listening because I’d need it one day.
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O-WIM O-WEH O-WIM O-WEH O-WIM O-WEH O-WIM O-WEH…
it’s so addicting! (just without the creepy falsetto…)
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It’s o-wimBAH weh, Zachglasser.
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Today in Barack Obama’s speech he quoted from the Bible about leaving childhood behind and it reminded me of what we’d read in the devotional literature packet, about seeing differently as an adult than a child.
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Yeah the reverend at the end of the ceremony also made an allusion to a famous Bible passage when he said “Let them beat their tanks into tractors” I forgot the first part he said but it was directly from the Bible. The quote I noticed was a reference to “Let them beat their spears into pruning hooks.”
Did everyone else notice all the tropes and allusions Obama used in his speech? It was kinda freaking me out as I recognized them while I was listening to the speech.
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Yeah. As he spoke, I couldn’t help but begin to analyze his speech, the multitude of tropes used, the similes, metaphors, the one where you repeat a phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses (sorry, I kinda forgot the technical term). AP has really changed how I look at things. The way in which Obama spoke of the future, of hope for the stimulus of the economy, of a plan for slowing the global warming problem, all sounded very reminiscent of the great days of FDR, of course without the polio.
On the other hand, the poem delivered by the woman was, well, for lack of better words, interesting. The way she spoke, in such a boring, monotonous tone, every word gets the emphasis and no word gets the emphasis, was rather dreary in relation to the upbeat rhythm of Obama’s speech.
My favorite, although, had to be the ending of the reverend’s speech…”and the yellow will be mellow.” Ha ha ha ha.
Yeah Obama…the first “Hawaiian” president (or at least affiliated with the island nation in such a way that no other president has ever been)!
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Woah woah woah Ethan, low blow to FDR (and I mean low, cus he was usually sitting down). Way too soon to make fun of FDR. There’s a time requirement on those things ya know.
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isn’t Hawaii a state?
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Yeah…
But only because it was taken over by force by the white man, in 1893 I believe. A handful of plantation owners and their extended families, along with a brigade of armed marines, marched to the royal palace, surrounded it, and forced Hawai’i’s last queen, Queen Lili’uokalani, to step down. =0 All because they wanted a monopoly over the sugar imports in the US. Since the takeover, and the initial arrival of Captain Cook in the late 1700s, much of the land (’aina) has been taken away from the natives, their numbers have been decimated, and most live today in poverty. (In a voice very Zach Glasseresque): Curse you white man!…=(
But you’re right. It became a state in 1959, only 50 years ago. The overthrow is seen as illegal and there remains those who still would like to see the islands as their own separate nation, civil uprisings, marches, palace takeovers and whatnot. It’s a pretty controversial topic.
So yeah, it is a state…but the most amazing state in the Union nonetheless.
Chris, just remember the three P’s of Hawaiian. =)
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