Good Morning
Journal Write #37- Free write
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Write about what is on your mind.
Journal #38- Are you ready?
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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
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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?!?
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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
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What specifically are you going to do
differently to improve yourself in this
class this quarter?
Journal #2
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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
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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 disagreeand why?
Journal #4- Risks
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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
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Can you think of an example of this in
your life? Do you agree or disagree- and
why?
Journal #5- Principles
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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.”
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- Herm Albright
Journal #7- Education
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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.”
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– George Bernard Shaw
Vision Journal
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Respond to the following quote
Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
– Japanese Proverb
Journal- Difference of Opinion
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If in your mind you substitute “black” for
any other race or group- is it still true?
Journal- Your Best
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Respond to the following quote:
“"If
a man does his best, what else is
there?”
– General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
Journal- Talk?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
A strong positive mental attitude will
create more miracles than any
wonder drug.
Patricia Neal
Journal- Happiness
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
If I only had a little humility, I'd be
perfect.
-Ted Turner
Journal- Austen
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“Politeness, n. The most acceptable
hypocrisy.”
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The
Devil's Dictionary
Journal- Evil Triumph
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways.”
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850
Journal- Reach Beyond
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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
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“Clear your mind of cant.”
—Samuel Johnson, 1783
Journal- Credit due
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“The sinews of war: unlimited money.”
—Cicero, 1st century BC
Journal- Times
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Respond to the following quote:
“It was the best of times, it was the
worst of times.”
—Charles Dickens, 1859
Journal- Choices
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“All that matters is love and work.”
—Sigmund Freud, attributed
Journal- Liberty
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Respond to the following quote:
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
—Patrick Henry, 1775
Journal- Fear
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Respond to the following quote:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear
itself.”
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
Journal- Superpowers
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Respond to the following quote:
“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn
unless it achieves results.”
—Ernest Shackleton, 1916
Journal- Deception
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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
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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
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“To be, or not to be: that is the
question.”
—William Shakespeare, 1601
Journal- Spring
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
“Hope is a waking dream.”
—Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC),
from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Journal- Dream
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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
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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
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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
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Respond to the following quote:
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“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
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Journal- Education
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Respond to the following quote:
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“Education is the ability to listen to
almost anything without losing your
temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost (1874-1963) U.S. Poet
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Journal- Tears
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Respond to the following quote:
“We need never be ashamed of our
tears.”
--Charles Dickens,
Great Expectations
English novelist (1812 - 1870)
Journal- Hook
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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
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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
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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