Period 5
Yay for minimum days! We began the class with a syntax worksheet. The quote was from Edgar Allen Poe’s “Black Cat”. We analyzed how the appositives affected the quote by creating suspense and giving a much more detailed description. The quote was compared to a “continuous scream” that goes on and on. For the [...]
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Period 6
Tuesday September 29
Class today began with the passing back of detail and imagery worksheets from the last two weeks, our pop quiz on Sarah Vowell’s “Shooting Dad,” and the essay we wrote on Friday on Joan Didion’s passage on the Santa Ana winds. After Mr. Eldridge welcomed all the Jewish kids back to class [...]
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Period 6
28 September 2009
It’s another Monday, another week of school. Anyways, today is also Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday that’s basically a day of atonement. The class started talking about the holiday, and somehow someone started talking about Buddhism and killing animals. Evidently, the Dalai Lama actually eats meat. Tibet is unsuited for growing vegetables, [...]
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Period 6
Scribe Notes
21 September 2009
During the beginning of class, Kate Chambers proposed that we get a class goldfish. Each table will take turns weekly taking care of it, and it is to be named after Full House characters…not exactly sure why.
Sharon’s phone rang in class, and when it finished ringing, robotic voices started to [...]
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Period 6
Scribe Notes for Friday, September 9th, 2009
Today was a minimum day and nothing really big happened. Everyone achieved arriving to class on time. Shira was wearing her tiara again and had 12 bandades covering her bug bites. the bites were an her arms; she looked as if she had been cutting herself, but she [...]
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Period 6
Class Scribe for September 17, 2009
o A little after the bell rang, the sub called out role. Many students may have been inadvertently marked absent because only about half way down the role sheet did everybody notice that role was in fact being taken.
o Simone delivered an outstanding lecture on the intricacies of polysyndenton [...]
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Period 5
Surprisingly, people felt like talking today. The awkward silence was no where to be found UNTIL we started going over the Detail worksheet #3. We spent the entire period discussing this worksheet and trying to figure out what a Turkish bath is. A Turkish bath is literally a public bath where people are stripped [...]
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Period 5!
WE ARE WAY TOo QUIET!!!
- Our sound level, well let’s put it this way… we don’t make any noise! Mr. Eldridge once again reminded us that it IS ok to make some noise… plus I don’t think we can compare to the ways of last year’s period 5, who would climb and wrestle one [...]
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Period 6
Today we did a Detail worksheet about a man and his disgusting eating habits. Though his food consisted of rancid meat pies and hares, the man wolfed his food down as if it were scrumptious. Some people volunteered their own sentences that described some pretty disturbing images while Mr. Eldridge acted them out. This [...]
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Period 5 – September 11th
1. First some papers were passed out. One being the Trope of the Day list, with the dates that we will present and the topics that we are doing them on. The other paper was our homework that we will have to be doing out of Bedford. *Chapter 4: Narration [...]
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