Well, it was a pleasure to guide you through the wild ride that AP English Language can be; complete with rapids and shoals and a few slow moving pools. As a river guide will tell you (on the tough rapids), this is a self-rescue trip. And every one of you demonstrated your ability and willingness [...]
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Period 6 15 June 2010 Well, I am the last scribe for our sixth period AP English class, which Simone hails as an honor. Class began with everyone turning in their notebooks, and Kate and I frantically trying to figure out which quotes we missed so we could quickly respond to them before turning in [...]
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Period 6 Class Scribe We turned in our postsecondary reports today, and most students rejoiced at no longer having English homework. Also, today was the day of the scheduled (but foiled) water balloon fight for the senior prank. Some kids resorted to pouring water on each other and getting suspended for that. Anyway, for this [...]
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Period 5 Today was just a typical day in English We dicussed: -”The Swomper” a specialized no back chair to keep the sitter awake and strengthen their back (all because Lean was threatening to fall asleep on the couch as usual) – Czech Republic and Slovakia; their marriage and recent divorce – Jewish boy being [...]
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Period 6 Class started late today as we waited for Natasha to help Ryan put his straw into his juice pouch. Then, we discussed chapter 8 of Great Gatsby. In this chapter: * the chronological order of the narrative gets mixed up * Nick’s sympathy lies with Gatsby because he is an idealist * it [...]
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Period 5 • We discussed The Garden of Forking Paths, in which Yu Tsun kills a man with the last name Albert so the German leader will know the name of the city. Then genre is a spy short story. The labyrinth discussed in the story exists in time, and it can only be understood [...]
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Period 5 To begin the period, we had a discussion about television. Television lacks exercising and analyzing. Also, did you know that the point of television shows is to get people to watch commercials? (I had no idea that was the main reason…) Next, we discussed Gatsby and took the following notes: How does Ch. [...]
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Period 5 ap english, class begins here in fifth period again and we find ourselves amidst our teacher and our friends fun games, yes so amusing and scrambling up our minds which is what inspired me to write this little rhyme and fun facts fill our brains left there to briefly linger and I guess [...]
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Period 6 “Bloo blah blah bloo blah blah” -Ryan Bender This insightful quote was what inspired me to dig deep within my self and re-examine my inner soul. It plays to the idea that we are all children at heart, hence the “bloo blah”. In just these two words, Bender has masterfully created the effect [...]
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11 more days of school left! So, 6th period started off with a Great Gatsby quiz I think a lot of people did moderately well; no one did as horrible as the last quiz we took. Erin and Shira were confused about the directions Mr. Eldy gave about putting our giant story-packets in a three-ring [...]
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