Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

SOML (Story Of My Life).

Ashley
Cardona and why she is a writing god (1-10)
Arguments
Argument, everything being one (21)
Argument, Visual (24)
Argument, difference versus claim (22)
Argument, Arisotle's theory (21)
Argument, Toulman theory (23)

B
First (25, 26, 27)
Bitzer
Eulogy of man who died at the hands of angsty AP students (18-20)
Bitzer's exigence (18)

Blog
Blog that you were supposed to find first week of class, but didn't (11)
Blog project that is stressing you out (12-13)
Blog posts, and how to use voice in them (14)
Yeah, Write (11)
Let It Be (14)
Mimicking Cardona's sarcasm, except not as well (14)
Stalking blogs of people you don't really know (11)
House*Tweaking, and it's awesomeness (11)

Boys
Don't like boys in your class
Stop being confrontational to unconfrontational people
Or worse, confrontational people
Sarcasm is good with males


Color
Color pallates and effectiveness
Colors, and their meanings

Comic Sans
Don't use this font unless you want to die
Or unless you're five
Or unless you want to fail
Or unless your visually impaired and don't know the difference between fonts
Or unless you have no taste in life

Essays
Being graded on the Harvard Scale
No more automatic A's on papers
Putting voice into your writing
Essays, 50: An Anthology
Grading takes a long time
Accepting that a C is average
Short, sweet, and to the point
Audience, form, purpose
Essays, Visual
A Modest Proposal, the best essay you have read this entire semester

Failing
Over 10 quizzes
Finals
More quizzes
It's okay sometimes
GPA bomb-ing-ness-shmeh

Figurative Language
Metaphors
Similies
Imagery
Sensory
Irony, something that you can never decifer no matter how hard you've tried
Juxtaposition, also something that you will never fully understand

Friends in AP comp
Cult, which is my life
Ya win some, ya lose some.

Goals
Get Mrs. Cardona as a teacher (accomplished this in August YAY)
Get an A (lawlz, not gonna happen)
Have Cardona like me (Check? Eh?)
Ace a reading quiz
Become a better writer
Learn tools for college essays
Learn vocab that will help on SAT/ACT

Not die in the process of all these goals
Horatian satire
Ignominy
Orwell

Why he writes
Orwellian (nominalization, yo)
Archaic idioms, almost, if not just as bad, as Comic Sans
Orwell --> Didion --> Why I Write blog post --> Literacy Narrative --> Fail (see section above)

Purpose
Of taking this class
Of all writing pieces
Of life
Of falling for someone
^ And getting over someone
Of high school
Of 10th grade communications (no purpose).

PETA
Advertisements
Anti-meat-eating-ness-shmeh
Power of images

Rhetoric
Basically the purpose of this class
Rhetorical Analysis
Rhetorical Essay
Rhetorical Situation
Rhetoric (exigence)
Bitzer (see above)
Something that you (also) never understood, and still don't, which is bad, because that is what this class is about, and therefore you have failed. Awesome.

Stamina
To endure this class
To stand (insert name here) every day
To keep pushing through (see 'to endure this class')

Studying
Session at Lunds that didn't actually end up having much studying
But I had a delicious lunch
And tried sparkling water.
It's nasty.

Vocabulary
Cult working together
Failed final
Quizzes

Zuegma
A fricken awesome word

PAGE NUMBERS ARE STUPID.

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