BEDA 30: The End, and some Cuckoo's Nest
Hey kiddos. This has been a helluva ride, no? BEDA = awesome. Thanks, Maureen!
I have my first ever real-big-kid-stuff job interview tonight.
I feel pretty sick, so I'm gonna take a shower and have a little siesta to be prepared for my job-zilla interview.
Something of interest: Today in English (we're reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for those who aren't in the know), P-Nelli was talking about David Thoreau. The guy is a transcendentalist, which basically means he, and other transcendentalists, wanted to be "different." His most famous work is Walden, published in 1854.
History of Walden:
Thoreau decided one day that he was sick of material goods and the material world. So he went out into the woods, built himself a cabin, and lived there for a year, making a journal about how life was different then than it was in the "real world."
I haven't read it, but there's an allusion to it Cuckoo, so we just discussed it for a while. About how people are "individuals," and how we work in this "system" of life, which Kesey (author of Cuckoo) calls the Combine. P-Nelli asked us why we sat in school all day, if we were such "individuals," and why we fell into our roles in the Combine. We talked about how people, including ourselves, were afraid of academic/disciplinary consequences, how we were scared of what our parents would say if we just walked out of class one day and stopped going to school. And then a funny thing happened.
Pulsinelli walks over to the door, opens it, and says "If you walk out right now, I will not write you up. I swear."
No one moved. There was just a silence over the room. I didn't get up, oh gosh no. But why? Would you, reader, have gotten up?
God, everyone should read this book. It's incredible. Will probably finish it tonight or tomorrow night. Let me know if you read it in class. Please?
BEDA 30: PWNED.
BEDA: PWNED.
okay I love you bye bye!
I have my first ever real-big-kid-stuff job interview tonight.
I feel pretty sick, so I'm gonna take a shower and have a little siesta to be prepared for my job-zilla interview.
Something of interest: Today in English (we're reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for those who aren't in the know), P-Nelli was talking about David Thoreau. The guy is a transcendentalist, which basically means he, and other transcendentalists, wanted to be "different." His most famous work is Walden, published in 1854.
History of Walden:
Thoreau decided one day that he was sick of material goods and the material world. So he went out into the woods, built himself a cabin, and lived there for a year, making a journal about how life was different then than it was in the "real world."
I haven't read it, but there's an allusion to it Cuckoo, so we just discussed it for a while. About how people are "individuals," and how we work in this "system" of life, which Kesey (author of Cuckoo) calls the Combine. P-Nelli asked us why we sat in school all day, if we were such "individuals," and why we fell into our roles in the Combine. We talked about how people, including ourselves, were afraid of academic/disciplinary consequences, how we were scared of what our parents would say if we just walked out of class one day and stopped going to school. And then a funny thing happened.
Pulsinelli walks over to the door, opens it, and says "If you walk out right now, I will not write you up. I swear."
No one moved. There was just a silence over the room. I didn't get up, oh gosh no. But why? Would you, reader, have gotten up?
God, everyone should read this book. It's incredible. Will probably finish it tonight or tomorrow night. Let me know if you read it in class. Please?
BEDA 30: PWNED.
BEDA: PWNED.
okay I love you bye bye!
I would probably walk out...but then again...I'm a fourth quarter senior...lol. People leave to get out teacher panera on an almost regular basis lately. Haha.
BEDA not pwned. you promised a post May 1st.
I might've left. But then curiosity would have gotten the better of me and I'd have come back to see what else he was saying. So it would've been a symbolic leaving more than anything else, just to prove that I could.