APEnglish–Los Al

Period 5

Friday started off like any usual day. Dilled with chatter of lunch and nurrrrs from Glasser (and mocking of nurrrrs from Desouky). Jay was on time today (which is a very recent trend, let us hope it continues!) and Desouky was munching on some Panda Express that was soon told to be put away by Mr. E. Engulfing the Orange Chicken like a hungry tiger, Alex closed his container and with it, stopping the stench of chicken and other Asian tasties from filling the room with ethnic aroma.

Today’s lesson was simple and on the projector. We have been studying, reviewing, and analyzing diction and syntax in works of literature lately, and today, like the past couple and surely some to come-we were doing just that. Looking at different excerpts from a variety of works with different tones and structure, we determined the reasoning for different sentence structure. We analyze the passage and discussed each author’s reasoning for why their sentence and word structure is just and how it effects the audience and the work as a whole.

Make sure you are getting your sources for your research paper!-Eldridge reminds us as we leave for a weekend of fun (or if you’re in APUSH, boring Homework. but shhh! don’t say that in front of Mrs. Grimshaw, cause she’ll have a cow!)

-Barbie xoxo

Period 4

The day started off crazy as usual. Pandemonium always seems to hit our class on Fridays. Krigmont was outed and had to sit alone because the rest of the group decided he was a krigger. crazy kids.

Eldridge had us write sentences that began with when…, when…, when… and if…, if…, if…

Jordan decided to say I take pills at the end of his sentence.

We worked on syntax and different types.

• loose sentence
• periodic sentence – key is to build up tension. dramatic. dependent clauses combined with if or when
• balanced sentence – parallelism, antithesis
• inverted sentence – Shakespeare
• juxtaposition – next to each other and see what happens
• parallelism
• repetition
• rhetorical fragment – used for emphasis

Then Mr. E gave us a worksheet on syntax

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

• no verbs nothing happens, time slowed down emphasized with diction like mad makes things slow and the horses are still
• ironic twist – accumulating compound interest, humor
• the 2nd paragraph everything gets confusing, the fog controlling everythings unclear
• netherworld – hell
• if you were to write an essay a big paragaph would be on syntax – bleak feeling, static

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

• ironic squat 34 stories, everything is bigger, all implied
• no action, no verb
• dead, listless, no participial verbs, stable,
• pill for everything, creepy

Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare

• balanced, line 4
• main idea: equality of Montague & Capulet. lines all in order, cut in half
• balance leads to discord
• lines 5 & 6 crossed inverted
• themes repeated syntactically

HOMEWORK

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ONLY DO 8 NOT 10. MAKE ONE NONTEXTUAL.

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