Scribe: 4.22.2009
Period 5
Hello Fellow Children of Eldridge-
Today was extremely uneventful as we were immediately sent to the media center. There we were ordered to begin research for our research essays, as we are required to have a minimum of ten sources (no biggie or anything). Furthermore, with these sources, we will be composing an annotated bibliography. 
For those of you who are unfamiliar with annotated bibliographies –and that should be all of you-check chapter three in your Bedford Reader; “it’s located after chapter two and before chapter four.” And for those of you who are too lazy to search for your Bedford Reader, here is a cute little definition: an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the source. What would we do without the Owl at Purdue? Anywho, period five had an especially difficult time formulating questions that were specific enough to get to the point, but general enough to be debatable…or something along those lines. Eldridge seemed rather frustrated; this frustration was especially noticeable when he ordered me to stop slouching and sit up because “humans don’t slouch.” Anyways, that was pretty much it for the day. This Saturday Erica and Shelene (I’m sorry if I spelled your name wrong!) are planning a shopping day at South Coast and I’m officially inviting everyone! Woo!
Homework tonight is just to continue researching and/or perfecting your questions. Don’t procrastinate, little babies!
Love, Rachel Scheuer.
Zach Glasser! >
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Period 4
Hey peeps! Today, Period 4 was an adventure unlike any of the others we have experienced this year. Today we went to the Mac computer lab to do research for our projects. We didn’t want to go at first, so a bunch of us stood in the parking lot next to Eldy’s room and talked about having a sitting protest. TLP and I stared in awe of her awesome rainbow tan. Finally, we all proceeded to go to the lab. Once we entered and a few of us sat down, Jordan started dancing really weird behind Colleen. It was then that I wished I had brought my Flip Video camera to film the chaos and post it on the blog. Then we started discussing resources we could use for our projects. Mystery actually said that Wikipedia actually is not a bad place to start research, but is a bad place to end. You can always trust websites ending in .edu because they are owned and made by colleges and their professors. Other possibilities include websites like askmoses or askjeeves.com. But remember as you research that every single site has a bias.
We then refreshed our memories on primary and secondary sources. The big cheese had a hard time trying to make us pay attention, so he had us sleep our screens, telling Stephen to “Put Obama away!!” Primary resources come from someone witnessing an event and writing on it. Secondary resouces are from people actually researching the topics themselves. Statistics count as primary resources because we still have to develop a theory about the information and process it. Our Beford Reader is gonna be useful in this assignment: pages 50-53 have info on verifying validity and chapter 3 has an annotation guide. Remember the first part is due next Wednesday and we will be in the classroom tomorrow. Now to list the fun stuff:
- * Tricia says hi.
- * Dylan Lee had a bright neon computer screen until he fixed it. It
- actually looked kinda cool.
- * While Mr. Eldridge was checking Nadir’s research question, he
- said, “You can write books about lots of stuff.”
- * Nadir thought he took my pencil, but I didn’t have a pencil out.
- * Tricia got an Earth Day gram.
- * Sean and Ed decided to find their love compatibilities by clicking
- on the secret crush ads. According to them, they had “freaky
- compatibilities”.
- * People starting researching their names.
- * The bell rang for the period to end, and Ed screamed “fire” at the
- top of his lungs.
Now some food for thought: The father of the little girl that starred in the movie Slumdog Millionaire wants to sell her to someone for money. What do you think he should do? Do you think the movie company did not pay her enough? Or is her Dad just greedy and messed up? You decide!!
See ya later!!
Brittany 
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For the record, I was not frustrated; I was hungry! I know they may look similar, but I know the difference!
And Shelene and Barbs, I’d like a tailored fit shirt, 17 neck, 37 sleeve. interesting pattern, excellent fabric, french cuffs desired but not required. May be a challenge, but that’s the fun of shopping for difficult sizes!
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HAHAHAHA!!
as someone who is a fan of self-mocking…i must say, well done rachel with that picture
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I’m not going to lie, Zach. I thought my blog pictures were pretty clever. And okay, Eldridge. Erica, Shelene, and I are all excellent shoppers. I’ll speak on behalf of all three of us when I say that we accept your challenge!
What’s the difference between french cuffs and regular cuffs?
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Jay Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:24 pm
@Rachel Scheuer, Well, Rachel ,French, cuffs are twice as long and worn folded back on themselves. French cuffs were once considered to be more formal than button cuffs, although they are seeing a resurgence in the business environment, particularly in Europe. Even though traditionally French cuffs could only be worn with a lounge suit or more formal clothing (and not a sports jacket), this is now not followed by most, while some even wear these cuffs without a tie or jacket. They remain the preferred choice for semi-formal, black tie events.
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Dessouky Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
@Rachel Scheuer, just sayin, i think its stupid whenever anybody starts off a sentence with “I’m not gonna lie” because doesnt that imply that you lie whenever you say anything else…? (rhetorical question). sweet!
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Mr. Eldridge Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
@Rachel Scheuer, http://www.tailordave.com/images/Shirts/Styles/7.jpg
I’ve got a wide array of cuff links I’ve inherited.
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SEANWANG Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:56 pm
What’s wrong with button cuffs, Mr. Egdirdle? It seems like French cuffs are purely an excuse use cuff links…
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Rachel Scheuer Reply:
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
@Eldridge & Sean Wang. Clearly, French cuffs are superior. I’ll make it a point to find you some of those on my little shopping extravaganza with Shelene, Erica, Callie, Shaina, Gellan, Ashley, and Patrick? this weekend.
@Dessouky…Okay.
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Oh I’d like to add that Tristan was guiltily perusing penisland.net, during class, on school computers. His attempts to hide the screen with the sleep function failed miserably when he accidentally hit the mouse and his screen came on when Mr. Egdirdle was right behind him.
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Wangadang, why must you insist on messing with Tristan like that. We all know you were behind that malarkey, or should I say, in front of. Furthermore, you better watch yourself because Tristan is a master teaser and he will get you and make it look like an accident.
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Well, my justification is:
If you can write a book about NOTHING,
you can write a book about ANYTHING!
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I’m so excited for our shopping trip! So sorry it was not this past weekend. I haven’t found much time at the moment but shall we try for Saturday May 9th about 5 o’clock? If anyone has a better day or time let me know, i’ll see what works out best for whoever’s going and we’ll have an official date posted by the 4th.
-Shelene
It’s going to be sooooo much fun!
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