Sunday, January 22, 2012

Mini heart failures and sarcasm and rainbow cakes.

Abbreviations
     BLA, CRW, FPA, CRJ, EPL...5, 19, 23, 45, 83
     for everything 5-90
Appeals
     credible, emotional, to logic 23, 56, 98
     don't you dare call them by their real names 100
Animoto
      is downright amazing 43
     made my life so much easier 21
Analyze
     don't even think about summarizing 12
     how and why not what 30
Argument
     everything 1-200
   
Bitzer
     FML 7
     Thank God we got that over with in the first week 12
     What is he even talking about 54
Blogging
     Establishing voice 2
     I will miss it 77
     IT'S 3:30 ON SUNDAY CRAP 37
BLA
     Fast Food Nation and the Female Brain 40
     I was not discussion director or summarizer...! 116
     "What pages are we reading again?" 120
Brevity
     is better than "gumming together long strips of words" (see Orwell) 1-199

Cardona
     will not take your crap so don't even try 150  
Claim
     good...now I just need reasons and a warrant 134
Clock
     "is it 7:05?" 107
     wants to be a piece of art 89
     works when no one is looking 187
Clumping
     clique-y 126
     our class sucks at mingling 194
 
Distractions
     our class was excellent at them 48
     will not help you to get a good grade 123

Emoticons
     :) :( :D :/ 75
     are the devil 198
Essays
     50 23
     on writing them 123

Fallacies
     avoid at all costs 158
     easy to make them 123, 187, 189
     there are so many and we always see them but don't realize it 54
Formatting
     drives me crazy when it doesn't work 9
     issues  32, 90, 120, 140

Glasses
     everyone needs to leave me alone about them 64
     everyone thinks I'm a snob now 82
     that one day in AP Comp... 43
Google Docs
     always had my work with me 60, 70
     auto-saving - yes. 149
     getting scoffed at for not using Microsoft word (see "always had my work with me") 32, 67, 99
Groupwork
     sometimes beneficial, sometimes a time sucker and waster 50
     that awkward moment when Cardona comes over and your whole group falls silent 85

Heart
     attack when you have a quiz and you should have done the reading more thoroughly 200
     attack when you wonder whether you printed out the essay 200
Humor
     best unit ever 7
     can also be an argument 21
     eating babies 89

Jenna
     is a puppy 3
     my favorite in the class (along with see Kira) 10
     outbursts 8
     see Rainbow Cake

Kira
     cynical grandfather 3
     my favorite in the class (along with see Jenna) 10
     not sleeping whatsoever 14
     see Rainbow Cake


Learning
     applying your knowledge at home and getting dirty looks from your parents 60
     so much even though your grade doesn't reflect it 39

MLA
     always use it 31, 32, 98, 118, 130
     if not used Cardona will write MLA on the top of your paper in giant letters and you will feel ashamed 120
     format (best) 189
   
Orwell
     Eric Arthur Blair 1
     mascot 1-200
     syn. freaking awesome 5, 10, 15, 20

Peer Editing
     "don't apologize" 71
     feeling awkward about your work 108
     very helpful 191
Power Writing
     every man for himself 33
     people in class will kill you to get a stamp 37
     see heart attack 
Proposals
     Claim, reason, warrant, ACTION. 9
     Jonathan Swift 10
Procrastination
     doing it and regretting it and then doing it again and regretting it 38
     do not do this ever or you will regret it immensely 63

Quizzes
     2/10 89
     failing (oh well...!) 52
     were so hard 68

Rainbow cake
     best cake you will ever see in your life 52
     I made awesome friends in AP Comp 85
     it had a mustache 80
     see Jenna and Kira
Reading
     and reading and reading 74
     see analyze
Revise
     do it constantly 48
     "murder your darlings" 22
     whole essay based on it 70
Rhetoric
     how to: use language effectively 47
     pronounced ret-er-ik 2, 4, 6, 8

Sarcasm
     having whole conversations with oozing with it 60
     see Cardona 
Sedaris
     funniest man ever 42
     can I be him/have his brain 86
     can I marry him 90
Studying
     better do it or anticipate an F on the final 74
     my butt off 55
Symbolism
     does not exist in AP Comp 21

Terms
     112 of them officially 112
     I made flashcard for everyone 113
     you're welcome 114
Toulmin Model
     basic structure of an argument 50
     wait, what's that again...? 57

Vlogging
     apparently I don't finish my thoughts 60
     talking to a camera...awkward 27
     who would have thought I would make a vlog and put it on YouTube 99
Voice
     don't slip into "academic auto pilot" 11
     essential when writing 63
     make it your voice, not someone else's 72


2 comments:

  1. Haha, this is great!
    Yours is like a finished product already, mine's definitely still a draft ahhhhhh
    Oh I should definitely add you and Jenna to mine, gosh I have so much to do on this still haha
    You're cute.

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  2. Sarcasm
    see Cardona

    Ha. So true.

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