Scribe: 11.02.2009
Period 6
Wyatt Johnson
Class Scribe
As most of the class came trickling into 6th period, we saw Kate and Shira outside dumping out the fish. I guess it died by being crushed by the rocks in the little glass tank.
Class started and we got back a few of our past essays. Some were good. Some were bad. The syntax worksheet was on a sentence that had been split by a colon. After a long discussion on why we thought it was there, Mr. Eldridge told us that its purpose was to put emphasis on the second clause.
Somehow the class started to get into the subject of lying and Mr. E showed us a book called chaos that had graphs of things that someone would not know there could be graphs on like: the predictability of weather or iron after a magnetic rod was pulled through it. It was really cool with a ton of neat pictures.
The homework is the story called, “A web of Brands” in the Bedford Reader. Also, the essay worksheet needs to be complete by tomorrow.
Period 5, November 2, 2009
Today was an exciting day as students settled in to not only a daily worksheet on syntax, but also a plethora of graded papers and essays. Scores were much higher than usual and Mr. E made a few comments on our improvement. However, it was silently discussed between table groups that it seemed as though Mr. Eldridge might just be grading with less enthusiasm and thus, more forgiveness. In any case, the majority of the class was pleased.
From there, we moved on the the syntax worksheet. The paper focused on a sentence with a colon within it that was designed to place more emphasis on the second phrase. Somehow, our discussion trailed off and Mr. E began blessing us with his knowledge of famous author, James Joyce. I found it very interesting how he made it a major point in his lecture to stress the amount of time Joyce would spend on his work – “writing only 4 words in one day”. But despite this applaud to Joyce’s patient and careful work ethic, Eldridge once again attempted to pressure us to hastily finish our Apply sections.
Next it was time to discuss our returned essays. We briefly went over the prompt of a few of the papers and from there, Mr. E began introducing us to the sure fire, mechanical way to write a passing essay. He advised us to first explore the piece for DETAIL, DICTION, IMAGERY, SYNTAX, and/or TONE, and then develop the rest of our essay based around a few of those elements.
To further stress this process we were given a worksheet to start and complete for homework. We were also asked to read Naomi Kline’s “A Web of Brands”. That about sums up this day.
P.S. sorry for the lack of attention to detail that some of the other scribes seemed to have so thoughtfully tended to, but I hope most of you can sympathize considering the amount of work from other advanced classes.
-Chris Cammiso
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