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Good Morning
Journal Write #37- Free write
Write about what is on your mind.
Journal #38- Are you ready?
Are you ready for your final for Quarter 1 English? Look at the side board to see what the final will cover. Have you read all of the texts? Do you remember them? Did you complete the questions at the end of the selection? Which ones are you ready for? Which ones do you need to “brush up on”?
Journal #39 I like ____the best
Of the texts we have read and the tings we have done, which do you like the best? Why? What is it that you liked the best about it?
Journal- Why?!?
Why are you here? Why do you choose to be at school? What is your purpose? What do you want to achieve? Is this a means to a goal?
Quarter 2- #1- What’s new
What specifically are you going to do differently to improve yourself in this class this quarter?
Journal #2
Respond to the following quote: “Things turn out best for the people
who make the best out of the way things turn out.” – Art Linkletter
Journal #3
Respond to the following quote: “There is not any memory with less
satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.” - James Branch Cabell
Can you think of an example of this in your life? Do you agree or disagree- and why?
Journal #4- Risks
Respond to the following quote:
“Our lives improve when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” – Walter Anderson
Can you think of an example of this in your life? Do you agree or disagree- and why?
Journal #5- Principles
Respond to the following quote
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both” – Dwight David Eisenhower
Journal #6- Attitude
Respond to the following quote“A positive attitude may not solve all
your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” - Herm Albright
Journal #7- Education
Respond to the following quote
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”– Aristotle
Journal #8- Ideas
Respond to the following quote“If you have an apple and I have an
apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”– George Bernard Shaw
Vision Journal
Respond to the following quote
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.– Japanese Proverb
Journal- Difference of Opinion
Respond to the following quote:
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”-Thomas Jefferson
Journal- President
Respond to the following quote:
“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”- Clarence S. Darrow
Journal- Rumors
Respond to the following quote:
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”– Winston Churchill
Journal- -ism
Respond to the following quote:
“We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.”– Martin Luther King
If in your mind you substitute “black” for any other race or group- is it still true?
Journal- Your Best
Respond to the following quote:
“"If a man does his best, what else is there?”– General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
Journal- Talk?
Respond to the following quote:
“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”- Moshe Dayan
Journal- Friends
Respond to the following quote:
“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Journal- Grade
What do you think that your grade is right now? Why? Do you think that you have earned that grade? Is that the grade you want?
Journal- Thinking
Respond to the following quote:
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”- Bertrand Russell
Journal- Research
Respond to the following quote:
"I was very much afraid. Before this, we had been doing this work only on pigs.”– PAOLO MACCHIARINI,surgeon at
the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, on the world's first tissue-engineered organ transplant, using a patient's own stem cell
Journal- Community
Respond to the following quote:
“We see things like that and they are little beacons of hope.”
– CLAIRE ACEY, spokesperson for Northwest Harvest, operator of Washington's largest food bank, on companies forfeiting holiday parties to buy food for the hungry
Journal- Firearms
Respond to the following quote:
“I am proud that police do not regularly carry firearms but I want to give them the tools they need to confront dangerous people.”
– JACQUI SMITH- British Home Secretary, announcing funding for high-voltage Taser stun guns to be provided to police in England and Wales
Journal- Pirates
Respond to the following quote:
“The only thing they are missing is their freedom to leave the ship.”
– DAYBAD, a pirate on the captured Sirius Star oil tanker, assuring the BBC that the 25 people being held hostage on the ship are being treated well
Journal- Thanksgiving
What are you thankful for? What do you usually take for granted that you should be thankful for? Be detailed and reflective.
Journal- Helping others
Respond to the following quote:
"We soon will have the most food stamps recipients in the history of our country.”– JIM WEILL,president of the Food
Research and Action Center, on American's food stamp use nearing an all-time high fueled by rising unemployment and food prices
Journal- Sale!
Respond to the following quote:
“Some man lost his life because a VCR was on sale? Please. It's just too sad for words.”
– ELLIE BERHUN- Wal-Mart customer, speaking about a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban New York Wal-Mart worker to death
Journal- Cars
Respond to the following quote:
“You lay awake at night trying to figure out how to keep these doors open.”
– DENNY FITZPATRICK- owner of a Chevrolet-Hummer dealership outside Oakland, Calif., who has already dismissed 56 of his 114 employee
Journal- Living Conditions
Respond to the following quote:
“In some parts of town there is raw sewage running down streets.”
– "ESTHER,”- BBC News' anonymous diarist in Harare on the unsanitary conditions in Zimbabwe's capital city, where a cholera outbreak has killed at least 565 since August
Journal- Solar Car
Respond to the following quote:
“It's ecological, it's economical, it is absolutely reliable. We can stop global warning.”
– LOUIS PALMER-Swiss adventurer who was the first to drive a solar-powered car around the world on these cars' potential impact on the environment
Journal- Death?
Respond to the following quote:
“They do not deserve executions. I want these dreadful people to live out their lives in prison.’
– ALICE HOAGLAND- mother of 9/11 victim Mark Bingham, on news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men charged with coordinating the attacks will abandon their legal defenses in their death-penalty trials
Journal- Layoff Eggs
Respond to the following quote:
“We're even getting men offering up their wives. It's pretty scary.”
– ROBIN VON HALLE- president of Alternative Reproductive Resources, on the surge in egg donations amid economic uncertainty and increasing job layoffs
Journal- Corruption
Respond to the following quote:
“This is a crisis of confidence of people in their government in a democracy.”
– PAT QUINN- lieutenant governor of Illinois, on deepening scandal surrounding the state governor Rod Blagojevich
Journal- Corruption
Respond to the following quote:
“I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden, and I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I'm not gonna do it.”
Illinois Gov. ROD BLAGOJEVICH- in a conversation intercepted by the FBI, regarding his opportunity to choose the replacement for Presdient-elect Barack Obama's senate seat
Journal- Hunger
Respond to the following quote:
“This sad reality should not be acceptable at the dawn of the 21st Century.”
– JACQUES DIOUF- head of the Food and Agriculture Organization, on the 40 million people pushed into chronic hunger by the rise in food prices in 2008
Journal- Dirty Politics?
Respond to the following quote:
“I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.”
– SAM WURZELBACHER- more commonly known as "Joe the Plumber," blasting former Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, calling his experience on the campaign trail "appalling" and "dirty"
Journal- This Class
Reflect on your experience in this class this term. What did you like? What did you learn? How have you grown? What is your most memorable experience? What will you tell your friends when they get this class?
Journal- Change
Respond to the following quote:
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
Abraham Lincoln
Journal- Mental Attitude
Respond to the following quote:
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal
Journal- Happiness
Respond to the following quote:
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Madeline Stark
Journal- Humility
Respond to the following quote:
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-Ted Turner
Journal- Austen
Respond to the following quote:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, 1813
Journal- Politeness
Respond to the following quote:
“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Journal- Evil Triumph
Respond to the following quote:
“It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph” —Edmund Burke (attributed, not found in his writings)
Journal- Love
Respond to the following quote:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850
Journal- Reach Beyond
Respond to the following quote:
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
-Robert Browning, 1855
Journal- Destination
Respond to the following quote:
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by.”
-Robert Frost, 1916
Journal- Can
Respond to the following quote:
“Clear your mind of cant.”
—Samuel Johnson, 1783
Journal- Credit due
Respond to the following quote:
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.”—Bernard of Chartres, 12th century
Journal- Money
Respond to the following quote:
“The sinews of war: unlimited money.”
—Cicero, 1st century BC
Journal- Times
Respond to the following quote:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
—Charles Dickens, 1859
Journal- Choices
Respond to the following quote:
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” —Henry Ford, 1909
Journal- What’s important
Respond to the following quote:
“All that matters is love and work.” —Sigmund Freud, attributed
Journal- Liberty
Respond to the following quote:
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”—Patrick Henry, 1775
Journal- Fear
Respond to the following quote:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
Journal- Superpowers
Respond to the following quote:
“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
—Ernest Shackleton, 1916
Journal- Deception
Respond to the following quote:
“O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”
—Sir Walter Scott, 1808
Journal- What you say
Respond to the following quote:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”—Voltaire
(actually a later summary of his attitude rather than his own words)
Journal- Carelessness
Respond to the following quote:
“To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”—Oscar Wilde, 1895
Journal- The Question
Respond to the following quote:
“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”—William Shakespeare, 1601
Journal- Spring
Respond to the following quote:
“In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842
Journal- Hope
Respond to the following quote:
“Hope is a waking dream.”—Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Journal- Dream
Respond to the following quote:
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
--Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
Journal- Life
Respond to the following quote:
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
--Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
Journal- Boredom
Respond to the following quote:
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
-- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
Journal- Early Rise
Respond to the following quote:
“Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
US Transcendentalist author
Journal- Education
Respond to the following quote:
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost (1874-1963) U.S. Poet
Journal- Tears
Respond to the following quote:
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
--Charles Dickens, Great Expectations English novelist (1812 - 1870)
Journal- Hook
Respond to the following quote:
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
--Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) 3rd president of US
Journal- Diversity
Respond to the following quote:
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
--John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) 35th president of US 1961-1963
Journal- Empty Mind
Respond to the following quote:
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
--Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine