A no good, very bad day

Mrs. Gill was cranky today, as a result of having forgotten her computer at home, with all her files, including our test. Instead of humbly apologizing for her carelessness, she meanly refused to acknowledge our concerns, and instead confiscated people's drinks and spilled coffee on the floor.

She was on her hands and knees wiping up a smelly mess for the rest of the period. Serves her right. The last page of the test was eliminated, compensating for the time it took for our teacher to get her act together.

Hopefully, everyone's grades will be good, and Mrs. Gill will come to school in a better mood tomorrow, with her computer.

            Class, as usual, started with a prayer.  After the prayer I was notified by Mrs. Gill that I was the scribe today.  She then continued by telling me I should sit where she moved Nikolai to, I am insulted.  The people who finished the extra credit over break turn it in and like usual there are excuses.  Michelle says her email doesn’t work and Blake can’t get the extra credit off of his computer for reasons unknown.  We then continue our journal writing assignment and write to the song “Bless the Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts.

            After journaling we are notified that the college credit inspectors are visiting but they are visiting the other class unfortunately.  Mrs. Gill tells us that she told the people to visit our class but maybe she just doesn’t want to hurt our feelings and secretly likes the other class better.  We are assured that this is not the case when she then explains to us that both classes have the same amount of awesomeness.

            Our objective for the day was to prepare for the Scarlet Letter test for tomorrow.  While doing so we go over the topics on the document sent to us by Mrs. Gill through Dyknow and she tells us that the best way to prepare is to review the book.  Finally, we discuss our newest unit which will be a biography over our American author that we picked for summer reading.

Hw: study for the test… Good Luck

We started class off with the usual prayer. After that Mrs. Gill collected the extra credit from over Thanksgiving break. We didn't have any scribe notes to read over from last Friday because Mrs. Gill didn't find it necessary to do them. From there, we continued to work on our journal entries, while listening to a song by Eminem. After we finished with our journals, Mrs. Gill passed back our vocab quiz and a Scarlet Letter quiz. Mrs. Gill then began to explain that we will have a college professor visiting to evaluate the class. The class took a vote on when to take the "Scarlet Letter" test. It was decided that we take the test tomorrow. A document was sent out through Dyknow containing topics that should be reviewed concerning the Scarlet Letter. As we finished up with the review, another productive class came to an end.


Homework: Study for the test

Kelly O'Brien's Scribe Notes for Period 2 Acc English

            I walk in and hear Mrs. Gill saying that we are doing the analysis in class. This makes me, along with other people, freak out a little. Turns out Mrs. Gill was just kidding. We are really doing the analysis for homework tonight.

            Zack reads his scribe notes. Then, Mrs. Gill tells us to take out our keyboards. We all assume that this means take out our laptops. Our journal is called invention. We are supposed to write one to two sentences on the purpose of our writing piece. Mrs. Gill asks for someone to suggest a song. Nick suggests Like a Stone by Audioslave. However, Mrs. Gill thinks it is called Like a Slave. Jeffrey then says something inappropriate, which I won’t repeat.

            Mrs. Gill sends everyone the analysis prompt through DyKnow, but she sends us the wrong paper. She then resends the right paper. The analysis is supposed to be on how Hawthorne reveals the character of Roger Chillingworth through diction, allusion, irony, and metaphors.

            Annie then begins to make excuses as to why she can’t bring her laptop with her on vacation. Other people start making excuses too. Blake says that his charger won’t work. Nick says that he is possessed by Satan. It’s about time to go, and I’m kind of relieved because after Nick’s comment I’m kind of scared of what excuses might come up.

                                                                                                 

Homework: Analysis

God I Hope This Works... 11/21/11 Scribe Notes

Today we started class with a prayer like always, and Mrs. Gill realized that Nick and Drew are gone. After that, when we decided the scribe was me (it should ‘a been Kelly) class sort of began.  Mrs. Gill tried her best to find Kara’s scribe notes from last week, and once she did Kara went up to the front of the class and read them.  Everyone looked extremely interested during Kara’s reading, Jeff was busy chewing his nails, I think Michael was asleep…  Someone is using strategy for something.  Now Mrs. Gill is talking about comma rules, and Kelly is drowning out her comments by asking me who is scribe… It’s obviously me, since I’m sitting here typing out scribe notes.  COMMA DODGE BALL??? But it isn’t really dodge ball.  Now Mrs. Gill is saying Streetlight Manifesto is loud and obnoxious, I no longer like this class.

Instead of journaling, we have to take a previously written journal and turn it into an excellently written paper.  We could say pain has something to do with the sun, and something about points and skin cancer.  There seem to be some essay possibility, and most will fall under fiction, personal, or impersonal essays.  And poetry, but who writes that stuff?  Length is not an issue, but it should be 2 – 3 pages MLA style, which sounds like a length requirement to me.  It needs to be perfect.  Well that should be easy for me but I don’t think there are too many other perfect people in here.  After leaving the class to talk to Mr. Grasser, I return to talk of how important personal essays are.  During journaling, everyone is typing furiously but me…  I wish I knew what we were supposed to be typing about.  They were typing to some mellow song that I can’t remember the name of.

We get Wednesday to write our literary analysis essay, but Mrs. Gill decides we can take it home.  Now she wants to go over it with us and help us with writing it.  She shows us a passage from chapter 5 of The Scarlet Letter, and a prompt below it about how Hawthorne depicts Hester’s state of inner turmoil and how he shows it with types of writing like: Diction which is how something is worded, figurative language which is like non-literal types of language, syntax means word order, and we went over irony and tone last week.  Michael and Jeff are moving their heads at each other and laughing… Maybe Jeff is stealing Michael’s soul or something like that.  The chief criteria for annotating is annotate what you notice.  Man this scarlet letter stuff is complicated.  I’m not sure if I should be writing this down or not…  Hopefully not.  Jeff wants to know if this passage is the only source we will use, and it is.  What is the nature of Hester’s turmoil?  It is that she is both regretful of what she has done, but is also wistful about it, and she feels the need to be near the one she loves.  Now Mrs. Gill proves spends a few minutes trying to find some document while Roman awkwardly walks… no skips in and flies over a few desks to land in the one in front of me. 

As the class comes to a close, Mrs. Gill explains comparisons of snakes and Hawthorne, while sending us a couple documents (that she is still having issues finding).  She fails to find the documents, but promises to put ‘em on edline. No homework! (Except for me)

A Look at the ACC English 3 Class

This is a Look at the ACC English 3 class… (From a hipster’s point of view)

Class started out on a good note today, for once they changed it up and had prayer over the intercom, I love when they experiment with new means to convey the lord, having a single person say it out loud is sooo overdone.

Then Anne read her scribe notes. I was disappointed, she took many of her jokes from “Marcel the Shell with shoes on." So it would have been a lot better if she came up with her own jokes.

Then Mrs. Gill’s phone rang and we heard a very jazzy sounding ringtone. Hopefully it was some local jazz band, I dig local music. She said it was from one of her children’s schools. Then, after that minor interruption, class continued.

The class then started to labor on their Literacy Analysis.  This assignment entailed expanding one of our current journal entries, or making up a whole new topic and writing about it. Mrs. Gill then said it could be in 3 different forms of composition, a dissertation, a tale, or a composition that may employ rhyming or poetry in laymen’s terms.

We then started to work on our compositions, to the song, “Point/Counterpoint” by Streetlight Manifesto. Despite hearing complaints from Libby and getting a glare and an angry point of the finger from Joe, I still feel it is a good song. Honestly, how can someone not like this song? Its a complex, multi-layerd, genre mixing song, and a work of art, which was lost on Libby and Joe. I guess they just don't seem to get it. Hopefully Mrs. Gill will continue to play good music instead of that modern garbage that the hoi polloi or peasants listen to. Maybe some indie music because indie music is the greatest form of music ever. 

Then Mrs. Gill polled the class on what they thought of The Scarlet Letter. I honestly didn’t like the book because it reminded me of the cliche ridden pop book A Tale of Two Cities, and because I don't enjoy Nathanial Hawthorne’s writing style.I found the book to be an black hole of evil that sucks the joy out of the soul. all that is good in the world.  I saw a few people give it a four out of four, and lots of two’s and three’s but I didn’t see anyone but me give it a one. I did this because I didn't want to relinquish hipster clout by following suit.

Soon, the class began to complain about having work assigned this week because many of the class felt it was pointless to having school this week. So Mrs. Gill took it upon herself to rant about how she doesn’t like how Kennedy handles makeup work.

Lastly, Mrs. Gill said we would have an essay to do in class tomorrow despite having shorter classes. Mrs. Gill needs to mix it up with giving essays. It's getting quite old having to write essays during short classes. She said she would put the topic of this essay on Edline for the class to look at later.

Finally class was over, so I could listen to some Neutral Milk Hotel.

Marcel the Shell with shoes on presents...

Hi! I’m Marcel the Shell with Shoes on,

Here’s a little introduction, to get to know me first.

http://vimeo.com/14190306

There’s a teacher up there. Her name’s Mrs. Gill.

Guess what I use as a teacher. A Ladybug.

Will comes in late, he had an Art Emergency! The teacher takes it seriously. It’s an important matter. 

Guess what I use for a pencil. A broken piece of lead.

The teacher starts class with a prayer. Oh No! Katy spreads rumors that there will be no WORD BOX on the vocabulary quiz!

Guess where I go to school. In a potted plant.

Don’t worry though, there is a word box.

Mrs. Gill switches things up and gives the test at the beginning of the shortened, 43 minute class.

She throws a curve ball by giving us the test at the beginning of class, so we don’t take all 43 minutes of the shortened class to take the quiz.

Guess what I use as a ball. A piece of dust.

That’s my dog. He’s a piece of lint. You know what they say. “Lint is a shells’ best friend.”

Mrs. Gill forgets Hannah’s even in the class anymore. (which she isn’t, she’s sick) and Cody is missing as well.

One time I sniffed a fleck of pepper and I sneezed so hard I sneezed a hundred times a day for a month.

Maddie wants to wash the board, even though the messy board is her (and Kline-ye West’s) fault in the first place.

 (Maddie’s team won vocab word Pictionary on Wednesday)

Oh man, I’m so out of breath. I've talked so much! Could I get a drip of water please?

The test was relatively easy, although if you didn’t know your words, for all intensive purposes, yesterday was not your lucky day

Mrs. Gill learns her first lesson, to give the tests/quizzes at the beginning of class, as not to stress out her students even more.

When I get stressed, I work out. Wanna see me lift this?

No. I can’t, I can’t lift anything at all.

It’s relatively quiet, Libby keeps asking Anne physics questions. I don’t know why she asks her…she’s not much help

She’s my friend you know. We eat lettuce together sometimes. One time I nibbled on a piece of cheese and my cholesterol went up to 900.

Guess what I use as a helmet. A Pistachio.

The class keeps talking about the book The Scarlet Letter.

Guess what I use as a book. A book, but I get my exercise turning the pages.  

They talk about a man who was a sinner. He sounds like the kind of guy who wears a hat.

Guess what I wear as a hat. A lentil.

Ahh!! Everyone’s getting up! I guess it’s time to leave. Oh no! It’s an earthquake.

Bye! Goodbye!