It's a novel about a crazy, uncontrolled yet somehow freakishly controlled community and how one citizen hopes to rebel against their authority figure, otherwise known as Big Brother, a telescreen located everywhere in the community, controlling everything and every person living within its boundaries. 1984, by George Orwell was the first book we read this year and it was a really amazing book. Most of our class was into the book, interested, and biting at the bit to read the next chapter, or at least I was. There is a saying in this book and it goes like this "Big Brother is watching you." referring to the screen watching all of the people and their actions; creepy yes, but it's only a book, until today when I walked into English class. Spray painted and slightly crooked was a picture of Tom Selleck and the print under him read 'Big Brother is watching you' in big bold block letters on the left side of the back wall which is facing the whole room but mostly the row that I am near. The picture is black with white accents and it looks a little creepy to a person who hasn't read the book. All I have to say is wow, and what will the incoming ninth grade think when they walk into Mr. G.'s room next year?
There probably would have been a scene dedicated to Romeo and Juliet in the place where Big Brother is painted if the Shakespearean play was not so violent, and inappropriate as our class has discovered. There are the few characters in it like the nurse who just have a lot to say and most of it doesn't turn out so proper.
It is true I am not that loud. While in school, what I think to be talking really loud is so quiet I normally have to repeat it to others. Outside of school however my friends can't get me to, for lack of better terms, shut up. This shyness is portrayed by many guys in my class because they, like any other male teen, don't want to read a love story like Romeo and Juliet. So, a guy came across a line in which he had to scream JULIET! But did he do it? No, obviously he said it flatly, "juliet". Focusing on emphasis our teacher told him to read it something like, "JULIEEEEEEEETT" and he yelled so loud that our crazy, slightly off his rocker history teacher came in the room just to make sure things were okay. I swear anyone walking by the classroom or in the classroom above us could hear our teacher. It was very bizarre because our English teacher never yells. Anyone who was sleeping in our class or the class next to us was awake after that.
That is all
-"M"
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Well This Would Be My Day
Wardrobe malfunction. This is what started my day off. It is finally warm out so I decided to wear my new sandals to school. Not even to my locker yet I scuffed my right sandal on the floor and the top of it separated from the bottom. So I hopped to my friends "B" and "K" with my shoe making a sound worse than flip flops. The only solution that we could think of at seven in the morning was to glue my shoe which would have been fine if we used something different than Elmer's glue and let it dry over night. Unfortunately we didn't have that much time to spare. My friend "K" took the sandal and went to glue it leaving me shoeless on one foot in the hallway. I could have hopped, I get that, but it would have looked even more awkward so I set my right foot on the cold, filthy floor and headed to homeroom. People started coming into my homeroom so I had to hide my shoeless foot behind my other leg while sitting at a desk. Finally "K" arrived with my newly glued sandal and I put it back on my bare foot. Home room ended and I was feeling confident when all of a sudden I felt a slip and the parts of my shoe, again, separated. So I continued walking my sandal flopping all the way to math class. My teacher noticed my limping and my discombobulated shoe and had the best idea all day. Stapling it held the two pieces in place and allowed the glue to dry without the disruption of me walking. Thank you Mrs. J-P!
Then some wise guy decided to mess with the keyboard I use in computer class and they jammed the delete key, switched the p and k keys, switched the r and t keys and the a and l keys. However I didn't notice because in that class we aren't allowed to look at our fingers while typing so I typed everything correctly but then looked at the keys after and it messed me up even more and took me even longer to finish my resume. Thanks to the person who had nothing else to do in the class before me for that it was great to deal with.
A typical symbol describing science or science class would be a flask bubbling held by a crazy looking scientist guy right? Well this picture in my head came true today in Biology class. We are making yogurt and one of the ingredients needed is obviously milk. You have to heat it and then add powdered milk and a little bit of yogurt to it. Our teacher was heating the milk in containers on a burner during class and she went to turn one of them off. But instead of turning it off she turned the temperature up. This scared us all when we heard someone in the back of the class say "Uh it's bubbling". The milk bubbled over and poured all the way down the cabinets to the floor. This was the only time this year I heard a teacher swear. She quickly ran over to it and took it off the burner and had to mop up the mess. The rest of the period was spent listening to people go by in the hallway saying "who burnt toast?" because the milk had spilled the burner which had something that was burnt on it and it smelled exactly like burnt toast or burnt popcorn.
Oh English class. It is almost getting as hilarious as History class. Almost everyday conversations about the lesson spiral off into something completely irrelevant. For example today while talking about Shakespearian Vocabulary we came across the word Sirrah I think and our teacher mentioned how he thought it was used in the movie "Ants". This was ironic because the word was under the category for our notes "Words Nobody Uses". So for a while our class talked about the first spiral of conversation the movie "Ants" and then there were some people who thought that the movie "Bug's Life" was apparently better and actually had changed their life. Then the conversation turned into tiny talk - what I mean by this is that everything mentioned had something to do with something small. So the next thing to talk about and waste class time was the movie "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" because all of the people were small, I suppose it had something to do with the topic. Then going back to the first topic someone mentioned how there was a cute, chubby caterpillar in either "Ants" or "Bug's Life" I can't even remember now I've gotten myself too confused to try to recall all of this. And our teacher was completely lost for words, sitting down at a desk just waiting for the conversations to end. Eventually we got back to the lesson and I figured out that the word I have criticized my Dad for using around dinner time, "Sup", from the Shakespearian Vocabulary actually means "To eat". Sorry Dad I guess you were right after all.
That is all
-"M"
Then some wise guy decided to mess with the keyboard I use in computer class and they jammed the delete key, switched the p and k keys, switched the r and t keys and the a and l keys. However I didn't notice because in that class we aren't allowed to look at our fingers while typing so I typed everything correctly but then looked at the keys after and it messed me up even more and took me even longer to finish my resume. Thanks to the person who had nothing else to do in the class before me for that it was great to deal with.
A typical symbol describing science or science class would be a flask bubbling held by a crazy looking scientist guy right? Well this picture in my head came true today in Biology class. We are making yogurt and one of the ingredients needed is obviously milk. You have to heat it and then add powdered milk and a little bit of yogurt to it. Our teacher was heating the milk in containers on a burner during class and she went to turn one of them off. But instead of turning it off she turned the temperature up. This scared us all when we heard someone in the back of the class say "Uh it's bubbling". The milk bubbled over and poured all the way down the cabinets to the floor. This was the only time this year I heard a teacher swear. She quickly ran over to it and took it off the burner and had to mop up the mess. The rest of the period was spent listening to people go by in the hallway saying "who burnt toast?" because the milk had spilled the burner which had something that was burnt on it and it smelled exactly like burnt toast or burnt popcorn.
Oh English class. It is almost getting as hilarious as History class. Almost everyday conversations about the lesson spiral off into something completely irrelevant. For example today while talking about Shakespearian Vocabulary we came across the word Sirrah I think and our teacher mentioned how he thought it was used in the movie "Ants". This was ironic because the word was under the category for our notes "Words Nobody Uses". So for a while our class talked about the first spiral of conversation the movie "Ants" and then there were some people who thought that the movie "Bug's Life" was apparently better and actually had changed their life. Then the conversation turned into tiny talk - what I mean by this is that everything mentioned had something to do with something small. So the next thing to talk about and waste class time was the movie "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" because all of the people were small, I suppose it had something to do with the topic. Then going back to the first topic someone mentioned how there was a cute, chubby caterpillar in either "Ants" or "Bug's Life" I can't even remember now I've gotten myself too confused to try to recall all of this. And our teacher was completely lost for words, sitting down at a desk just waiting for the conversations to end. Eventually we got back to the lesson and I figured out that the word I have criticized my Dad for using around dinner time, "Sup", from the Shakespearian Vocabulary actually means "To eat". Sorry Dad I guess you were right after all.
That is all
-"M"
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