APEnglish–Los Al

Period 6

CRIBE OCTOBER 14, 2009(:

- It was a gloomy, rainy, wet day. But today’s Wednesday and that makes me happy.

-Erin was absent today L (She’s from Wisconsin, and I really wish she had an accent because that would make her 5,000 times cooler.)

-Walking into class, it was kinda bitch black, and everyone was falling on their way to their desks. Finally, Mr. E turned on the light.

- Anyways, we first graded our TSL Quiz from Chapters 4-6, and Mr. E talked about how “type” really meant “symbols,” just like the letters you are reading right now; letters and their sounds have no real connection. It’s just random.

-In the 17th and 18th centuries, stuff burned black because of all the soot and ash produced, so the Puritans used to say that the Devil was black, since he lived in the fiery inferno of Hell, anyway. But now, stuff burns red, so the Devil is red and not sooty and dirty like the old Black Man.

-While grading our quiz, Mr. E became sidetracked and started talking about Confession and Catholicism and then the Virgin Mary. He then proceeded to mimic Quakers because when they go into a trance, they shake. And that is why the children of the Puritan age made fun of them. (By the way, I’m listening to a song and they just sung about shaking.)

-So then a lot of people started passing back previous essays and diction papers, including our Compare & Contrast essay. Mr. E then showed us a perfect score essay from the 2003 AP English Composition test. It was pretty incredible and he then said he doesn’t expect anything like that from us just yet, so do not worry, fellow classmates!

-Shira’s stomach is on the prowl. I don’t know what that means, but that’s all I could hear from across the room while Sharon and I were talking about surfers and “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain.” After I read that, I thought zombies were going to come attack me at my house, which projected a weird fear in me.

-Mr. Eldridge has a talking dog that apologizes to him.

-Mr. Eldridge was not wearing shoes this period, and his left sock had a hole in it. I noticed this when him and Allison were talking about teeth grinding.

-Lastly, we did a diction worksheet with a quote talking about how the US Army was thirsting for revenge and prowling the Indians. The diction was there to suggest that the US Army was bad, and the Indians were being victimized.

So yeahh! Those are my scribe notes. Happy Wednesday, 6th period!

-Justine Wallace.

Period 5

Did you know that AP Language and Composition is also a senior class and AP Lit. is a junior class in some parts of the world? Neither did I.

At the beginning of class, we went over and corrected TSL Ch 4-6 quiz.  Mr. Eldridge and LeEan both confirmed why black man-which is one of the answers on the quiz, is black.  This is because when you or something is burned in hell, you get soot-on you or on the object.  That is why the man is known as the “black man,” because of the soot.  Also Mr. Eldridge mentioned that many people did not define one of the words on the quiz, so here it is: type-symbol.

After we corrected the quiz, we were then handed a Diction worksheet about how the US Army was thirsting for revenge and prowling the streets killing Indians as they see them.  In the context, the connotation of thirsting was that they yearned for it, well, more like desperation. It which was also agreed that desperation was the feeling that it evoked in the excerpt. In the second question, it asked what is prowling and what animals prowl.  Prowling is defined as walking around in a sneaky manner and with the purpose to kill.  Animals that do the supposed action are in the “cat” kingdom- cat, lion, tiger, and etc. Also asked in question 2 was how did prowling depict the US Army, and the answer was savages. We soon turned in the worksheet and jumped right into our take home essay that we were given on last Friday (Audubon and Dillard).

From the passages, Mr. Eldridge explained that Audubon was actually a scientist.  He concluded this through the observations Audubon provided, which were generally scientific and slightly mathematical- perpendicular, contour lines, and so forth were mentioned in his passage.  Dillard basically writes about how birds are flying through her cells, as if she was with the birds. “I’m in love with nature and I can’t wait to tell you that I’m in love with it.”-Mr. Eldridge posing as Annie Dillard. We also went over an essay in class of the same story, which was written by a previous student. All in all, that was our day.

Make sure you work on the topic homework which is due Friday, and it must be typed

-Bhavika Patel

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