APEnglish–Los Al

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 and asyndenton. When she was done Kris called out “encore”, and most of the class burst into appreciative applause.
• o    It was at this point that the sub asked Wyatt if he wanted to do pushups. Many may have been confused, but further conversation revealed that Wyatt and Mr. Huber knew each other from volleyball.
• o    We then analyzed a detail worksheet, in a passage about the dual nature of King Henry VIII.
• o    All of the groups presented their answers to the “Champion of the World” questions. Really, nothing remarkable happened there except that everybody did an excellent job.
• o    Then we were pretty much done for the rest of the period. Because everybody was preoccupied with talking, only about a quarter of the class was aware of Andy from period 5 sitting in his car outside the door. Until he honked the horn with about a minute left in the period.
• o    With about 20 seconds left the sub announced that we could leave early, at which point everyone did, and so ended September the 17th in AP English.

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Period 5

I can safely say that men and women alike were pleasantly surprised as they walked into class to see that the elegant coach huber would be gracing us with his presence for the next fifty minutes.  Knowing our educational instructor was off enjoying himself today seemed to motivate the class to relax and exercise their verbal abilities more than usual.

The lovely leean kim started off the class with an impressively informative presentation on both asyndetons and polysyndetons.  In case you were unconscious, absent, or temporarily unable to comprehend the english language for any reason, an asyndeton involves removing conjunctions in phrases while a polysndeton adds extra conjunctions throughout a phrase.  For the “practice” section of the polysyndeton, miss kim had the class create their own example.  Every student fought viciously over who would be granted the privilege of reading their work, but in the end karly prevailed.  Leean soon after graciously announced the conclusion to her lecture.  My only possible criticism: it slightly grinded my gears that the backside of the handout was upside down. Aside from that, it was simply stellar.

Coach hube-a-lubes deviously assigned the task of passing out papers to marilyn, so as to watch in amusement as she struggled to figure out how many worksheets each group would need for20their respective number of students.  He said something along the lines of “get to work on this” and off i went.

I found it to be a compelling coinky dink that Winston Churchill was quoted in both the presentation and “detail” worksheet.  I wasn’t particularly fond of the passage and corresponding questions on today’s “detail”.  They weren’t nearly as perplexing as previous ones.  Some time later, coach announced we had only six minutes remaining to complete it.  Pretty sure more than six minutes went by…

For some reason i seemed to catch his eye and hubes automatically referred to me by the black color of my shirt (clothesist much?) and selected me to answer the first question.  Taking into consideration the fact that i had been busily taking these notes and had to virtually concoct an answer on the spot, I’d say I did pretty well.  But he then called on one of the nearby girls for the same answer, which my scribature kept me from hearing, and seemed to think “that was more what they were looking for.”  If it was, then i applaud whoever offered the answer and mr. huber for realizing it, but he is a volleyball coach after all.

Mr. Huber continues to call on several students around the room and the first time he asks our andrew kolkin for a response, he declines. =C 2After hearing from a few more students and giving him time to create an answer, coach asks kolkin again, who refuses once more.  As huber inquires further, andrew resorts to bribery(chewing gum), and theft from his innocent desk neighbor.  Kolkin procedes to pass judgment on the quality of mr. eldridge’s grading, indirectly insulting his abilities as a teacher and as a man.

The detail papers are passed in.  An unnecessarily loud ruckus of chatter and paper ruffing ensues in preparation for the eight group answers.

Brian Joseph (a.ka. BJ) heroically fought through fits of laughter over kolkin’s entertaining appearance to lead his group to a victorious answer, just as giants quarterback jeff hostetler did in the super bowl bj proudly wore on his shirt.  Unfortunately the remainder of the groups were not nearly as exciting, though most likely accurate.  I am sorry to say my copious note taking rendered me unable to neither comprehend nor challenge any of the answers.  I apologize for robbing my fellow classmates of this interactive learning experience, but there will be plenty more time for that throughout the year, I assure you.

Well as one of the last groups finished the joyous sound of the bell resounded through our ears.  Stoked for minimum day tomorrow.  Ready for summer aga in.  Yes i know those are sentence fragments.  Peace out and party on.

Motivational quote of the day: “The sooner we get done with this, the sooner you can sit there and do nothing.” ~Coach Huber

Sir Winston Churchill

M. J. Fanelli

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