Scribe: 3.31.2009

Period 5
Fifth period today started off with a ten-point quiz on “Are Women Human?” by Dorothy L. Sayers and “The Mindless Menace of Violence” by Robert Kennedy; a lot of us freaked out because we only had a few minutes to do it.  After the quiz, we went over all the questions, and moved on to the main points [...]

Scribe: 3.30.2009

Period 5
There’s not much to write about today because we took a practice test for most of the period…so yeah, we started the period with the more practice for the ap test. We kind of got our stuff out slowly, so Eldridge got all up in a few kids’ grills, so now we have to [...]

Scribe: 3.27.2009

Period 5
Scribe 3.27.09
Kirsten White for Shaina Denny
(We all love and miss you Hun!!!)
PS- I added some comic relief to lighten up everyone’s day a little so please don’t take it as offense to the subject…=)
Today class started out as usual for the most part, except everyone was still in a slight slump from the dreadfully sullen [...]

The view from Callie’s seat

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Scribe: 3.26.2009

Period 4

The bell rang and Bunisha/Fifi/ET was shockingly not late.
It turns out that the essay from the previous day, the one that no one tried on, was for early registration in the Cal-State system. (well something like that)
We took out our green packets and Mr. E explained how all the crap was already [...]

Scribe: 3.25.2009

Period 4
Mr. Eldridge,
Annie was absent today, so she and I switched blog days. If you’re sick..feel better!!! If you’re not, I hope you had a relaxing day off Here is the blog:
Today in class we had a sub, Mr. Godfrey’s son! He attended Los Al and played on the football team in 1999. [...]

Scribe: 3.24.2009

Period 5
Hey-Hey!
It’s Ryan Cady, doing the scribe for fifth period on this, March 24th, 2009. Today started off really fun, with some Tom Swifties, which is a sentence where the adverb at the end has a similar meaning to a main verb or clause.
Some Examples:
“Well I’ll be an SOB!” Tom said doggedly.
“Here’s someone who can’t [...]

Scribe: 3.23.2009

Period 5
Dear Period 5,
The scribe notes for Monday the twenty third of march can be completed as follows. After a ten minute discussion on transsexuals (about the recent news of megan fox, the girl from transformers), it has been discovered that Alex cannot cope with the disturbing fact that she quite possibly was a man. [...]

Last Week’s Puzzle

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Scribe: 3.20.2009

Period 4
Hi everyone! (:
Today we mainly talked about the speeches on the green packet that we were supposed to do for homework and then we graded about 3-4 essays (the district one we wrote last Friday)
So here’s the breakdown:
1.     Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (April 16, 1963)

·        Utilizes ETHOS

·        8th Century [...]