APEnglish–Los Al

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 another for a spot of the comfortable sofa!

I would actually like to know if anyone in our class has actually even sat in the sofa???

Random facts of the day are:

• Mr. Eldridge had a mozzarella salad with balsamic vinaigrette dressing
• Mr. Eldridge ran out of pennies
• Chris Cammiso’s car is under repair
• Michael is apparently a “compelled man”
• Andy has an on and off Brooklyn accent

Apart from all the random side conversations I overheard, here are some educational things we did learn:

You need to register on the yellow/orange Bedford sight. Google: Bedford Reader Ninth Edition and register again if you accidentally registered on the blue sight. Make sure to use Mr. Eldridge’s hotmail email instead of his school email!

We started the day with the detail worksheet of Alberto Alvaro Rios “The Iguana Killer.” In question one we discovered that the man is refilled with youth when he plays his tuba. The details such as purple cheeks, and 1,000 wrinkles show that the tuba is more than a hard instrument to play, but makes the man feel happy again. In question two, we had to compare whether the original sentence added attitude to the main character or if another, or rather ordinary, sentence did. The original sentence had more attitude, because it emphasized the joy of youth, unlike the second sentence which only showed hard it was to play the tuba. The apply section was rather great, because we learned from Hadley that water and oil don’t get along, and I learned that I somehow implied a great metaphor within my sentence… thank you Mr. E!

Moving on from the worksheet Andy started his antithesis presentation with “Ok guys, here I go!” This part of class was rather entertaining as Mr. E and Marilyn were captivated by Andy’s words and the whole antithesis lesson “was a fun time.” We did learn, however, that antithesis is Greek for “setting against,” and it is a figure of speech involving the juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted in meaning and often in a balanced grammatical structure. Ex) “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism

In closing with the day I quoted some useful words by Mr. Eldridge

• “Jump in, the water’s fine!”
• “If you don’t know what to think about something then think its opposite.”
• “Will I make the train?” “You won’t if you keep talking to me!” (Oh New York honesty)

P.S…. Mr. Eldridge WILL NOT be in class on Thursday and Friday due to a camping trip with his neighbors and friends!

Chao clase,

Karly Chapman

Period 6

☺The bell rang.

☺Mr. Eldridge wore a pink shirt, with khaki pants, and a purple tie.

☺Worksheet of the day focused on Detail, quoting on a tuba player named Don Tomasito

☺Mr. Eldridge said something about Cherry Creek?

☺Mr. Eldridge clarified the Bedford quiz website.

• *9th Edition (orange) <correct site!
• *10th Edition (blue) <wrong site!
• e-mail quizzes to brenteldridge@hotmail.com

☺Roy was gone, Kate stated that her heart isn’t full. She texted him love notes but he didn’t text back.

☺Mr. E made a mistake and began reading yesterday’s worksheet on detail with the gross man excessively sweating and whatnot.

☺Simone discussed question #1. She believed the first sentence was simple and boring, and the second sentence illustrated the first.

☺Everyone has wrinkles.

☺Another student added to Simone and said that when Don’s wrinkles disappear, he reverts and goes back to his youth.

☺Old age hurts.

☺Ockham’s razor- The simplest answer is the best one.

☺Paul said “beauty has no name” about his desk partner…after Mr. Eldridge told Paul to say so.

☺Ryan Bender discussed his trope ANTITHESIS.

• *The class applauded him.
• *antithesis- A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure.

☺Have you heard of the term dovetail?

• *A dove tail’s shape is a trapezoid.
• *Corners are put together by adding dovetail joints. They must be perfectly aligned.
• *dovetail-to work perfectly together.

☺Mr. Eldridge spilled his water on his twelve year old brief case.

-Sarah Davidson ! 9-15-09

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