Awaiting Beastie's Return

Ah...we await Beastie's return from her dark, chilly lair, which is located in the murky gloom of a faraway swamp in a kingdom she rules herself, with a gloved claw upon her scepter of mouse-skulls...

And the lair itself has a carpet of fine Persian make, with intricate swirling patterns, bright and mysterious, with monkey traps cleverly laid across the floor...

Beastie is probably dining on Chango Frito y jalapenos y bebe frito y George Bush y Laura Bush y Dick Cheney frito...

Accompanied by vintage claret reddened with the blood of a tigress.

Anyways, that's what Beastie is likely doing (along with basking in the son and devouring any poodles who are stupid enough to come her way)...this is going to be one long week awaiting Beastie's return.

We Await Beastie's Return

Ah...we await Beastie's return from her dark, chilly lair, which is located in the murky gloom of a faraway swamp in a kingdom she rules herself, with a gloved claw upon her scepter of mouse-skulls...

And the lair itself has a carpet of fine Persian make, with intricate swirling patterns, bright and mysterious, with monkey traps cleverly laid across the floor...

Beastie is probably dining on Chango Frito y jalapenos y bebe frito y George Bush y Laura Bush y Dick Cheney frito...

Accompanied by vintage claret reddened with the blood of a tigress.

Anyways, that's what Beastie is likely doing (along with basking in the son and devouring any poodles who are stupid enough to come her way)...this is going to be one long week awaiting Beastie's return.

Weekly Update

The esteemed Professor Ado Ra Pestito gave a lecture at Seeds of Learning on Thursday, May 18th, pontificating on the subject of Henry the Eighth, whom she deemed quite a knavish character. Professor Pestito spoke quite eloquently and was obviously well informed, though she displayed her depraved sense of humor from time to time, making macabre jokes and comments like 'oh, good, another headroller'. Professor The Beast was most impressed and gave praise that bordered on fulsome. We eagerly await Professor Gata's lecture on Hiroshima, which will hopefully not involve quite as many innapropriate jokes.
In other news...Professor The Beast continues to live the life of a Philistine bon vivant, Frassy continues to insinuate that Pestito is oloroso, and Katie-san's improvident otter pop habit continues to deplete her allowance.

Leaf girls.

Actually, I saved that document as leafy girls, but does it matter? The answer is apparent. Well, I don't want to go babbling on, but it seems I'm prone to. Well, this is what I wrote for the assignment a few seconds ago, which was to write about an ivy leaf without using the words: green, leaf, ivy, or plant. I wrote
'life vibrating through a summer of different colored love'.
Have to continue with the rest of class now.

more invented words

workbookist-person who makes workbooks
catpeller-volition device made of cats
feety-tending to or having feet
nonfeetist-a person who doesn't believe in making feet
boxal-relating to boxes
foxal-relating to foxes
subfox-underground fox minion
alotterpel-relating to being pushed by otters
noncat-dog
(As in, 'I took my noncat for a walk at the noncat park.)
hopeject-to throw or force hope on another
graphevilist-someone who writes evil things
horribility-the quality of being horrible
pansportist-someone who carries pans
foxmitist-someone who sends foxes
foxaudist-someone who listens to foxes

Vocabulary

Brywyr the Poodle King was terribly parsimonious and refused to share his monkey stew with the prime minister.

A description of a mausoleum: A bright pink pyramid coated with gold plates. Assorted birthstones are cast on the plates, and dark looming music issues from the interior.

Adora only washed sporadically and her fellow students complained that she stunk up the place.

My parsimonious bodyguard refused to give me change and I stuffed him into a tortilla for dinner.

When Cazen got mauled by a bear she had to live vicariously through her sister, Eva, who went bear hunting once a week.

fun with the prefix and suffix

Unforbeastie-not before beastie
Enbeastiehood-in the state of being a beastie
Subbeastie-beastie’s minion
Beastiish-like beastie
Foreblunder-what you did before a blunder
Malvadahood-state or condition of being evil
Rekill-to kill again
Adoraful-full of Adora
Subgeese-below geese
Inbeastie-Barbie or Sharpie
Inadora-Adrianna
Inadrianna-Adora
Ghenghiskhanesque-like ghenghiskhan
irgood-not good (Adora)f
infrassyish-opposit of frassyish

This Is Just To Announce...

This is just to announce the coming of the sinister Democrat Daily, a liberal magazine featuring grim subjects, gory deaths, and such. We will be posting articles of this magazine on the blog soon, so bite your lips and eat more Chango Frito while you wait!

Impious Vocabulary

The Morris Razbelly Diner was a nasty little dive down on the corner of 42nd and Penderle Street. Its waitresses had a reputation for chicanery; customers were always complaining that they had been overcharged. The owner, Morris 'Big Belly' Razbelly, maintained a semblance of respectability in the community, but it was whispered that he was a fence. He ran a poker game out of the back room, and the Honorable Reverend White devoted several sermons to decrying the diner as a den of iniquity and vice. Big Belly was skilled in the art of sophistry and was able to (fallaciously) convince customers who feared the wrath of the allmighty that God himself played poker.

the banal thingo

It seemed blue all around.
The mountains were much bigger than behemoths, a perfect tower over the beautiful landscape. If you listened on the topmost top of the mountain, you would hear nothing. Nothing at all. It would just be you and the silence; the water lapping up onto the shore way down below you.
You would be able to see the whole ocean and have the urge to dive into it all of a sudden. But you wouldn’t-you’d stay up on the mountain, on top of the world.

by
~frassy

cat gods vs. deranged dogs

The birth of cats happened in the third half of 100 B.C. The cats were fairly tiny, and were only the color black. Sir Mondraken of Latunia discovered a cat in the Ukatan mountains and gave the species the name, 'cat', short for cattani, which, from italian, translated to the word death god. For now, that's all...I have to have dinner.

Reality? Wha?

Seeds of Learning will now have it's own reality programming, thanks to the BBC.
Yesterday Joyce recieved the camera, which Adora will be using to give BBC documentary makers insight into the life of a young miscreant. I mean writer.
If a certain teacher can overcome her propensity for 'technical difficulties' we will film the second half of today's lesson. Our show will probably lack some of the sensationalism one tends to associate with reality programming, and producers are having difficulty coming up with catchy teasers. Student tries to eat in class! Student gets A on vocabulary quiz! Student attempt to use foul language on class blog! Maybe we need something to give it that suspenseful, competitive edge....A sort of academic 'last man standing', with students getting thrown into fear factor situations for minor infractions...The best behaved student would receive some sort of cash prize. A teacher can dream......

Vocabulary Sentences

We hardly noticed the insidious traitor, even as he betrayed our secrets in plain sight and opened the gates of the fort to the British.

The Golden Epoch of the heroes lasted for a hundred years upon earth before the obnoxious magician Nivag came along.

The house was quite plebian and had the smell of peat and whiskey about it; the roof was of tatch of bad quality and the walls, of crumbling mud.


Emmeline Whinsy thought Zz to be plebian and rudely declined her invitation to tea.

I was insiduous and no one noticed me planning an escape to Zimbabwe.

Things that would cause me to blanch:
*eating a whole cake and then discovering that there was a whole gallon of rum in it.
*The Beast threatening to eat me.
*Discovering that Bush would be visiting Seeds of Lerning. (Though not as much if I had a gun)


from the notebooks of adora and adrianna svitak.
otherwise known as adora pest and frassy

Adrianna: continue to work with Felisa on story, write.
Adora and Adrianna: Study and Quiz
Adora: continue study of spiders, ed-helper science

Katie: homework, reading

Writing Project: Advice Columnist.

History of Puget Sound Continued. Read ‘An Informal History of Seattle’ and coach note-taking

Quiz:
Use ennui in a sentence.

May Day evolved from what ancient holiday?

Why did workers strike in Chicago in 1886?

Name three things that shaped the music of the 1960’s.

Use ostracized in a sentence.

Describe someone who is incorrigible.

What kind of music did Robert Johnson play?

Vocabulary

iconoclast-One who attacks and defies established traditions, ideas, or institutions; (literally: a breaker of images).

To establish herself as a bona fide iconoclast, Adrianna made herself a dress out of toast.

gamut-Entire range or extent of.

Adora almost made it through the entire gamut of trivia questions, but she was at last stumped by a question pertaining to the anatomy of poodles.

finesse-the ability to perform with delicate skill and style; tactfulness and subtlety; artfulness.

parochialism-pertaining to only one group; narrowness of interest.

ennui-vague discontent; listless dissatisfaction; weariness of life; oppressive boredom.

I wish we had a carcass of bush or something....

When I was a few months younger, I began to write an essay in my notebook, about how bush was, and still is, a complete. Here I have to stop, (unnecessarily, I think), because I am not allowed to include 'swear words' in this blog. Which sucks, I believe. Well, I will continue, replacing the bad word with the word, hmm. Let me think. There is not nearly a word good as the bad word that fits bush. Perhaps I will make up my own swear word. Of course...why didn't I think of that? The equivelent of that bad word I wished to include but couldn't. Okay, here goes: When I was a few months younger, I began to write an essay in my notebook, about how bush was, and still is, a complete gnikcuf elohssa. Beautiful, don't you think? Nah, actually, not. You're wrong! I think i'm blubbering and babbling this thing along. Of course, this was supposed to be about bush....
so. I'll begin to lecture you on the bads of bush: Dum dum dum DUM....(that twas supposed to be a drumroll or something):

Bush is an inhuman 'creature'. Scientists believe he skipped half of his schooling. (Of course, though, they were probably surprised to find out he didn't skip all of it). Bush is an awful war creater, a murderer, (well, I mean, probably), and does not deserve to be president. He is a ****ofalotta trouble for the universe. Here's what I think Bush's childhood was like.
THE NEW YORK TIMES

George Bush was born May 15, 44 BC, to the horror of his parents, George and Barbara Bush.
"When we first saw him, we thought that he had come straight from hell," Barbara Bush tells us. Her husband nods his agreement and adds,
"Yeah-he was writhing and screaming his head off. We thought he was, like, the devil or something."
When Bush was only 2, his parents took him to the hospital, to check if he was mentally retarded or not. The test was never finished, as George Bush started a breathtaking tantrum and destroyed several mirrors along with many other items. He was rushed out of the hospital and driven back home immediatley.

alright....enough for now. I hope i've convinced you (if you weren't already convinced) that bush is a gnikcuf dratsab. Along with other awful things, of course. Well, i'll welcome you back for the 3rd half of my show, like....perhaps tomorrow.

~frassy (sassafras (adrianna) )

Lesson Plan May 2

Adrianna and Adora: Review with Felisa for Quiz, then study using notes.
Adrianna: Geography/History of Washington, using Edhelper.
Adora: Science using
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/InfoNed/The_spider.html

What makes something an epic?
Read excerpt from 'The Odyssey'
Review plot structure, explore new genre.
Use this resource and create an epic plot using the characters:
http://www.cabanonpress.com/Postcards/1.RMEtcEPIC.htm
Seattle History: Read from 'Skid Road: AN informal history of Seattle'
Students take notes
Discuss.

Practice Quiz

Who was said to have sold his soul to the devil?
a)Chuck Berry
b)Robert Johnson
c)A.P Carter
d) Dick Cheney

List an important connection between The Vietnam War and Rock n'Roll:

Early country musicians were influenced by:
a) the blues
b) 'storytelling' ballads from England and Scotland
c) church music
d) all of the above

Use 'chaotic' in a sentence that lets me know you understand the meaning of the word.

Use 'anthropomorphism' in a sentence.

Use 'itinerant' in a sentence.

Name two different types of music that fused to form Rock:

Do you think poverty had an influence on the evolution of country and the blues? Explain your answer.

Lesson Plan May 1st

Adrianna and Adora: review for end-of-the week quiz
Katie: reading and homework
Adrianna: Edhelper geography
Adora: Edhelper science
Lesson:
May Day, a history.
Part 1: Gaelic roots of the holiday
Part 2: Germanic tradition
Part 3: The Haywood Riots and the holiday's role in the history of the labor movement.
Key terms: union, strike, walk-out, eight hour day, anarchist
Early Seattle History: Read from 'Skid Road: A History of Seattle'. Discuss.
Write journal entry of a settler moving west, using Doc Hayward's journal as inspiration.

while the beast isn't here to guard the fortress....

Since, I suppose, this is a school blog, I will not post anything relating to me exactly. I will write only by the school me. Anyways, I suppose I have to get started. Geez, I can't write about how it's the first day of summer, either. Alright. I can't spell words wrong or get my grammar messed up or uncapitalize or capitalize in the wrong places. I could write about after school today....well, basically, I was just pushing Adora and Katie on the swing. Katie got sort of crazy and started singing about how she was so loopy. It sounded like she was hopelessly drunk. Looked like it, too: she was swinging and looping around and bobbling her head and swinging wildly. Not to mention the singing, which I already mention.
"mama had a baby and the babie's head went POP!!" She did that with a weed, actually. Katie did. Then again she does that 10 times a day. Really, actually, I have to say, today really is summer. I keep forgetting it's technically spring, though of course, it's not. My way, anyway. Maybe it's the weather...but don't get me wrong, I think I'll be walking around in shorts and a t shirt and bare feet until i'm murdered or something. Unless I die freezing my feet off. I meant I'm going to walk around with summer clothes on till winter. Which makes sense too much, because, isn't everyone going to do that? I mean, except in Alaska of course. Well, it was fun in school, too, I guess, cause me and Adora and Katie got to teach. Adora was first, of course, and began talking with a highly professional groan-ish voice. Sounded a lot like my mother, maybe genes? Groan meaning grown up, of course. Highly professional stick-your-nose-up grown up. Of course, not all adults are like that. The Beast, for example, isn't. Getting off subject here. I went next, with a presentation about Harry Houdini, which I thought was cool myself. I mean, doing it myself. Presenting it was a different story. Well, the website with Harry Houdini was neat, because it fooled with your brain and made you see Harry Houdini's ghost, which totally rocked. Even though I knew it was only fooling with our brains. It looked really real, though. http://www.houdinitribute.com/img/magicpic.jpg

well I gotta go.