Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Mr. Eldridge
Period 5
“SPRAY THE SPRAY!”
Today in AP Lit/Comp, class began with Hadley hitting Desiree and when she complained, Eldridge went over and said “U-D-serve it.”
Shortly after that, we began to finish working on the Tone worksheet from yesterday and we learned some things about Tone:
Tone has an attitude towards:
The subject matter
The reader
Or
Him/Herself as the author.
(And if we take a look at our own lives, we often make fun of ourselves in normal
everyday conversation just as many authors do in their own works.”
*Off of a tangent from one of our at home readings a few nights ago, we also learned that Eldridge’s favorite magazine is the New Yorker but they come once a week so he finds that they begin to stack up and pile up everywhere. However, he said he feels good when he at least reads the comics.*
Continuing with the worksheet, Eldridge called on Brian Joseph to answer the first question and he replied by stating that the passage had a mocking tone because of how the author stated that clothes need to be bought many months prior to the time they will be needed. Discussion continued with many others in the class contributing as well as we finished working on yesterday’s Tone worksheet.
After we finished going over the answers for the first Tone worksheet, Eldridge went over to Jake and asked if he was a clown because Jake was acting very strangely while looking for his cocaine pamphlet which he misplaced. (We also learned that he found the pamphlet on the ground upon further interrogation from Eldridge.) Eldridge then stated that Brooke probably had taken in and burned it because she didn’t want to look at it anymore.
As we began to start the next Tone worksheet, we talked a little about Mark Twain and how he is a “down-to-earth guy.”
After, Eldridge interjected how Margo has a strange laughter and then Jake said he NEEDED to find his cocaine pamphlet. We also learned out last week he had an HIV and a Hepatitis B pamphlet in class. FINALLY, Jake found his pamphlet on cocaine and peace was restored to the classroom.
Now class was able to resume, but when Eldridge asked Allison the answer to the first question on the second Tone worksheet, she stated that she was not able to answer it because she was helping Jake to look for his cocaine pamphlet the entire time. Eldridge then commented on how cocaine just takes over our lives. Drugs are bad. Don’t do drugs.
When we finally came to the apply section of the second Tone worksheet, Eldridge was asking people what movies they picked and both Andy and Michael said they don’t see bad movies so Eldridge came to the conclusion that they both go to the movies together and they only see the good ones.
Next, two girls from the Los Al Chronicle came in to inform the class that one of them runs the advice column in the newspaper so if anyone has any deep, dark, secret, or any kind of problems at all, they can just place it into the yellow envelope hanging on the whiteboard. But don’t sing with your real name. And make it a good problem or it won’t make it into the newspaper.
After that, Eldridge passed out a “Transitions” worksheet to help us with our essay writing for this weekend. There is no in class essay this week because of the short week (No school on Friday for us students. Yay =]) and also because of the hell we put Eldridge through last weekend when he had to read and grade all of our papers. So we have more time to work on it this weekend, and now we have a list of Tone words and a page on transitions which we can use to apply to our essay writing skills and get A’s on our essays from here on out.
Also, we started outlining “Grant and Lee: A study in Contrasts” by Bruce Catton. However, we didn’t finish so finish going over and filling in the outline for homework tonight everyone.
At the end of class, the smell in the corner nearest the fish smelled bad apparently so Eldridge ended class by saying “SPRAY THE SPRAY” and so Brooke had to pass over the fragrant spray which covered up the foul smell of whatever smelled in that corner.
Period 6
Before the bell rang, Shira fixed Ryan’s note on the board about her tiara, which is still missing.
Both doors of Mr. Eldridge’s room were open for once.
It was overheard that Mr. Eldridge is not a baseball fan (except for the Playoffs).
We were asked to get out Tone1 and Tone2 worksheets.
Mr. Eldridge dropped two stacks of paper on the floor. While he laughed, Kris, Shira, and Michael picked them up.
The one stack of papers was about tone and the other was TSL AP Vocab List 2.
Shira laughed so hard at some comment from Kris that she was gasping for air.
Eldridge advised her to breathe.
Yesterday, Shira was sad about her missing tiara.
Apparently she has had a lot of things stolen and it runs in the family.
Eldridge thinks it is a part of life.
Ms. Stuart visited Mr. Eldridge for a few minutes.
We talked about Tone1 (Erma Bombeck describing buying clothes out of season and a store clerk’s reaction)
It is ironic that Erma wants a swim suit in August.
-Eldridge’s mom puts out Christmas stuff in October-
In the passage, there are strange attitudes conflicting in the passage: the speaker’s, her interactions with the clerk, and the clerk’s.
We discussed Bombeck’s attitude: Kate thinks she’s a maverick, Roy thinks she’s care free, Eldridge thinks that buying a swim suit if it’s hot is logical
-5th period thinks the fish bowl stinks-
What is odd in the passage: the clerk is shocked (aghast) that Bombeck is doing something outside of her world.
The clerk gets her sense of order from the store she works in and believes that her reality is the only one that exists.
Bombeck’s attitude toward this is defiant, frustrated, and mocking.
-Eldridge got exasperated at Tamura-
It is ironic that Bombeck’s logical desire to buy a swim suit when it is hot is self-described as “mad-Mitty.”
-Tori (a blond student in one of Eldridge’s classes) showed up to drop off an assignment.
Further irony is found when the clerk is wearing hot, warm clothes in August.
-Bombeck is making fun of the store: it is absurd to turn up the AC so that one has to wear warm clothes when it’s hot outside. thus the store is out of touch with reality
The overall tone: mocking, incredulous, sarcastic, satirical.
We should know the words under Tone Words: An Alphabet List
The other side are tone words by category and is just helpful.
We then looked at the Tone2 passage by Mark Twain.
Twain does not like Cooper (wrote The Lst of the Mohicans) at all.
Twain is realistic and ironic while Cooper is dramatic and makes TLM like a soap opera.
In the passage, Twain is trying to convince that his style is better so he can sell his work and eat.
The tone is disdainful and critical (from me), irritated, sortta negative (Bender), scornful.
Tht attitude at the beginning is dismissive: “But that is Cooper’s way” burn!
Eldridge thinks Transformers was hilarious and ridiculous (over dramatic and too much slow-motion)
On the subject of rambling: John McCain on economics is mixed with Miss South Carolina on world issues.
The handout on Transitions is to be reviewed in our leisure.
TSL vocab is due on Monday
We were given a worksheet for us to outline “Grant & Lee” in out Bedford Reader.
Eldridge thought the essay was really great-inciteful.
The civil war completely changed the country.
Before the war, people said, “the United States are…”
After the war, people said, “the United States is…”
Catton’s structure communicates ideas of the war’s opposing forces
1st paragraph: first time the generals met and the last day of the war @ Appomattox
-the civil war’s first battle at Bull Run was at one guy’s back yard,
so the guy moved to Appomattox to get away from the war.
The war ended in his front room at Appomattox.
2nd paragraph-the generals were symbols of their causes
3rd paragraph- Catton’s thesis statement
on the outline:
#1-intro
#2-Robert E Lee
We have to finish the outline for homework along with Bedford Reader
-Susan Sorenson
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