APEnglish–Los Al

Period 5

NO TSL QUIZ!!!!

• Slide show of pictures of Salem: small town. old, church-like architecture with Victorian style roofs.
• Salem Witch House- the oldest building in Salem. Abnormal architecture.

Our essays on Okefenokee Swamp were returned (and Jake ruined his perfect essay streak)

• Passage 1: objective and denotative description. Purpose to inform and educate.
• Passage 2: subjective and connotative description. Purpose to entertain, personify, persuade, and intrigue.

End of the Month, from Journal to Essay paper due on Friday, October 30.

Salem Witch House:

Okefenokee Swamp:

-Allyson Wilhite

Period 6

Scribe Notes
27 October 2009
And so begins another eventful day in Mr. Eldridge’s 6th period English class…

• •    The class started off with us getting back some previous worksheets and our in class essays on the Okefenokee Swamp.

• •    We then progressed into starting the imagery worksheet, containing a passage from Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim.  Wyatt had trouble focusing, so he had to go outside and do his worksheet.  While trying to answer one of Mr. Eldridge’s questions, we somehow get on the topic of Russians, who seem to be a wee bit more logical than Americans when it comes to space technology.  While Americans spent millions of dollars inventing a space pen, the Russians decided to use a pencil while in space, which proved equally useful.  Once we got back on topic, numerous students were still not able to answer Mr. Eldridge’s question, until Sharon was finally able to explain that the land described was devouring the sunshine.  Adrian was able to further emphasize on the darkness of this passage as well.  While working on this worksheet, Mr. Eldridge noticed that Kate has fallen a little behind on the Bedford Reader; she blames this on the difficulty of AP US.

• •    After we completed this worksheet, we went on to review our essays that were passed back.  The first passage we were supposed to read expressed a tone of reverence and awe towards the Okefenokee Swamp, and the 2nd passage, not necessarily being negative, explained that the swamp was something beyond belief.  While reviewing, Kate was able to make it all the way to the “Compare and Contrast” chapter in Bedford.  Yay Kate!  We also reviewed the multiple-choice section, which apparently was in the Bedford Reader, I don’t think too many people realized that.

• •    Instead of taking a Scarlet Letter quiz today, we looked at pictures of Salem and whatnot.  Then the bell rang, and yeah, that was basically it.

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