APEnglish–Los Al

Good day/evening everyone. This is Keith with the scribe notes for January 23, 2009. Of course I would be writing these notes for yesterday, the 22nd, but Tera-Lynne’s a scribe stealer. Anywho, let’s get started.
I don’t know if it was the weather or if it was just me, but today in Mr. Eldridge’s 4th period seemed a bit off. Tristan apparently ate a whole bowl of crazy before class and marched right up to my desk and slapped my water bottle. During the period, he also commented that Anthony and I have nice calves(?) and made his usual flailing arm motions. So, after Steven had thrown a few mint patties across the room, Michelle Elias shared with us her Inauguration Day adventure. Apparently:

• * it was about 7 to 10 degrees
• * there were approximately 5,000 porta potties
• * there were about 2 million people there
• * everyone there boo’d Bush

Our imagery worksheet today was a passage from “The Last Words of my English Grandmother” by William Carlos Williams. We discussed that:

• * The first stanza shows how messy and disgusting the residence is
• * The second stanza shows how pitiful and old the la dy resident is
• * The second stanza also makes us feel bad for the poor, dying, old lady

We also learned:

• * “truthy” describes something that sounds like it could be true but it isn’t
• * “din” is a loud, obnoxious noise that just won’t quit

Ed Guo then performed the extra credit passage in quite lovely fashion with excellent posture, as Mr. Eldridge pointed out right before he remarked, “I can’t see your eyes.”
Then, Tristan was instructed to focus his bountiful energy into writing down metaphors from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” up on the white board. They were as follows:

• * River and dam
• * Black clouds and the storm
• * Fiery floods of wrath
• * Bow and arrow
• * Spider over a flame
• * Furnace of wrath
• * Earth as a stage
• * Blood -> alcohol -> poison
• * Falling rock and spider web

The spider-over-the-flame metaphor represents a person over the pit of Hell. This discussion led to another conversation about causing insects to “pop,” which apparently was the catalyst for chattering amongst people all about the room.

As Eldridge set up the overhead projector mechanism, Sean was, yet again, acting crazy (seemingly for the first time the whole period) by blocking the projector image with his silhouette and, as a result, got kicked out of th e room but took an umbrella from the coat rack with him because it was raining outside. Eldridge barely had time to discuss what was being projected on the screen because the bell rang and then the lady from the intercom spoke over Mr. E, so we were dismissed to lunch as he shook his head and muttered “hopeless.”

So that basically sums up Eldridge’s fourth period on January 23rd. Oh yeah, and I’m sure Tricia says hi even though she didn’t tell me today. Goodbye.

Love, Keith

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