Period 5!
WE ARE WAY TOo QUIET!!!
- Our sound level, well let’s put it this way… we don’t make any noise! Mr. Eldridge once again reminded us that it IS ok to make some noise… plus I don’t think we can compare to the ways of last year’s period 5, who would climb and wrestle one [...]
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Period 5
Hey Period Five!
Today in class each of our groups were assigned a different question regarding The Great Gatsby.
Questions:
1. How do time and family incur in Chapter one?
2. Find three examples of Nick’s elevated diction and imagery.
3. Find at least two examples of how dialogue characterizes each character: Nick, Daisy, Tom.
4. Why/How are the valley [...]
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Period 4
HOY ES EL CINCO DE MAYO! (:
Today we got our multiple choice exam that we took yesterday back. Then there were series of different conversations for a long time and all i could hear was everyone getting mad at Sean for making the due date for the research paper tomorrow. So basically everyone hates [...]
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Here is the selection from Benjamin Franklin’s speech about the appointment of salaries:
“It is with reluctance that I rise to express a disapprobation of any one article of the plan, for which we are so much obliged to the honorable gentlemen who laid it before us. From its first reading, I have borne a good [...]
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Period 4
§ We got a diction worksheet which had an excerpt from “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” by Annie Dillard, who always writes about nature
§ Enthymeme: a syllogism where a premise or conclusion has been excluded
o We often enter an argument with prejudices (which can be strongly held beliefs) and prefer it when the argument confirms [...]
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Apparently, it can’t be considered a classic any more, unless “The Simpsons” produce it. Here it is:
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What about Hamlet’s strange outburst during the play-within-the-play? He yells, “Get on with it, murderer. The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge!” It is an odd line and seems out of place. But what has actually happened is that Shakespeare has played a number of jokes simultaneously with this very pregnant line:
He is making fun [...]
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Period 4
Scribe 1-21-09
• Imagery worksheet
o 20th century poet Elizabeth Bishop
o Bishop describes hot air balloons…NOT fireworks
o The sentence bridge across the stanza break is done to symbolize the mountains
o The poem is about love/emotion/relation/human experiences, all because of the two words at the end of the poem “like hearts”
yayyyyyyy!!…Elizabeth Bishop. Pretty woman…not? jk she is maybe her [...]
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Alrighty, in the interest of historic occassions, and since some of you are already chatting about this I decided to post the speech and video here. Some of you are already “twittering” about his tropes, and structures, diction, and the weaving of his ideas. And Michelle Elias was there!
Inauguration speeches are important for presidential administrations [...]
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Period 4
Scribe for January 20, 2009, Inauguration Day!!!
Today we just worked on our imagery worksheet and went over Religio Medici. I don’t think we went off-topic that much..!?!?!?
Imagery- visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory
-Felix means happy
-Frankenstein is the man who made the monster from different people
-Monster was nice and gentle but everyone hates him, so he [...]
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