Michael Klein's Really Good Scribe Notes 11/9/11

           

           ACC English Period 2 began class with a prayer as usual. We were treated to Katrina’s scribe notes, which came in the form of a Twitter account. We then moved onto the journal assignment for the day, which was to write as much as we could about John F. Kennedy. After listening to a rather lengthy musical number from “Hairspray”, our journals were complete. Jeffrey wrote a scathing review of Kennedy’s actions in office, while Megan gave a personal view of Kennedy, adding that she had discovered a conspiracy theory that Rebecca Black’s “Friday” was not simply an innocently bad song, but was truly a dark reference to the Kennedy assassination. Mrs. Gill activated her inner detective and took the class on an investigative trip to a website entitled “Funny or Die”. Utterly convinced by the reliability and trustworthiness of this well-named website, we discovered that there were indeed connections between the song and the assassination. Matt, in total conviction, proclaimed to the class that it must have been Rebecca Black who killed our beloved namesake. I’m not arguing.

Mrs. Gill then found it necessary to post pictures of Blake wearing women’s clothing, some of which were rather scandalous, on the front board. Mike, in his very polite and subtle manner, asked Blake why he had not fully acted out the part and stuck a needle in his stomach. After viewing these photos for a while longer, Matt stated that he would be embarrassed if that was him up on the board. Blake had no response.

After being scarred by these grotesque images, Mrs. Gill then launched into a thrilling discussion on comma usage. She stated that the class had a problem with comma usage and commas like all forms of punctuation are important to our writing skills and we need to learn about them to become educated well-rounded intelligent people and we need to avoid run-on sentences. All the students were simply engrossed by the lecture. Zack showed his interest in the lesson by falling asleep in his desk. Mike showed his enthusiasm by staring at his laptop with his mouth open. I took in the information best by staring at Emily’s shoes. They were very yellow.

When the darn lesson finally- er, I should say-  when all the students reluctantly had to pack up their bags to leave the enthralling comma usage lesson for the next class, we were assigned a comma/vocab exercise for homework. In addition, our journals are due Friday, we are to continue reading The Scarlet Letter, there is a vocab quiz on Thursday, and there is a chapter 9-16 assessment on Friday. This concludes the scribe notes for November 9, 2011.