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Quote of the day: “You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” – Nietzsche Einstein is spelled Einstein, not Einstien… not that big of a deal. Elisa’s group gave a presentation on process philosophy. It focuses on the process of formation of something, not the actual final product. It was [...]
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The registration lady came by today. She gave us three documents: the Senior Course Selection (a white paper), the AP/Honors contract (yellow), and the AP/Honors expectation packet (yellow cover, white everything else). The first two are due April 16th, with everything filled out, which includes signatures from parents and teachers. We will be meeting April [...]
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The class started off with Mr. E. reading us a passage of a family conversation from the 1985 White Noise. It was to demonstrate the factual distortion that is everywhere, especially in our classroom. We are picking up facts that are incorrect; we need to struggle against the disorder. We also need to stay away [...]
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The day started with a bunch of papers being handed out by various people. We then did our imagery about guavas and how they taste; the application was difficult because we had to use adjectives as nouns. We then took a fill in the blank Self Reliance Part 1 quiz. (I spent 1 30 min [...]
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Scribe: Period 3 November 13, 2007 The period started off someone handing out the tone worksheet. Then others helped me in passing back a lot of old work (including last Friday’s timed writing). The final thing passed out was the missing assignment report (don’t forget to take the online quizzes). PS. Vijay apparently goes home [...]
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Scribe 10/18/07 The diction today used the pun of outstanding giving it a humorous, informal attitude. If pull in and accept had been used, it would have given a more formal, polite tone. The apply section was hard since it is difficult to be blunt about something and give it a nice, loving connotation. We [...]
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Scribe 10/11/07 Tone Worksheet The most important sentence, tone wise in the passage was the last one, since it is short, it has the punctilio affect of being dismissive and right to the point. The “laughing out loud” shows a lack of respect creating a mocking, sarcastic tone. It is almost as though the writer [...]
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9/19/07 Scribe – Laura Greek Detail Lesson 3. Quote from Arthur Miller’s play, we know that it’s a play due to the stage directions and that it is continuous dialogue. Required that we looked up who JP Morgan was as well as what a Turkish Bath was: JP Morgan was an American financer during the [...]
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