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Good Morning. Journal Write #37- Free write. Write about what is on your mind. Journal #38- Are you ready?.

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  1. Good Morning

  2. Journal Write #37- Free write • Write about what is on your mind.

  3. 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”?

  4. 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?

  5. 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?

  6. Quarter 2- #1- What’s new • What specifically are you going to do differently to improve yourself in this class this quarter?

  7. 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

  8. 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?

  9. 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?

  10. Journal #5- Principles • Respond to the following quote “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both” • Dwight David Eisenhower

  11. 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

  12. Journal #7- Education • Respond to the following quote “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” • Aristotle

  13. 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

  14. Vision Journal • Respond to the following quote Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. • Japanese Proverb

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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?

  19. Journal- Your Best • Respond to the following quote: “"If a man does his best, what else is there?” • General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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?

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. Journal- Thanksgiving • What are you thankful for? What do you usually take for granted that you should be thankful for? Be detailed and reflective.

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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"

  40. 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?

  41. 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

  42. Journal- Mental Attitude Respond to the following quote: A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal

  43. 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

  44. Journal- Humility Respond to the following quote: If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. -Ted Turner

  45. 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

  46. Journal- Politeness Respond to the following quote: “Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.” - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

  47. 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)

  48. Journal- Love Respond to the following quote: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850

  49. 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

  50. 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

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