Good Morning. Journal Write #37- Free write Write about what is on your mind.

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


“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


Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.– Japanese Proverb

Journal- Difference of Opinion


“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”-Thomas Jefferson

Journal- President


“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.”- Clarence S. Darrow

Journal- Rumors


“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”– Winston Churchill

Journal- -ism


“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


“"If a man does his best, what else is there?”– General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Journal- Talk?


“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”- Moshe Dayan

Journal- Friends


“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


“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”- Bertrand Russell

Journal- Research


"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


“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


“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


“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


"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!


“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


“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


“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


“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?


“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


“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


“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


“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


“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?


“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


“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


A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Journal- Happiness


There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

- Freya Madeline Stark

Journal- Humility


If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

-Ted Turner

Journal- Austen


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


“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”

- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

Journal- Evil Triumph


“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


“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850

Journal- Reach Beyond


“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”

-Robert Browning, 1855

Journal- Destination


“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less travelled by.”

-Robert Frost, 1916

Journal- Can


“Clear your mind of cant.”

—Samuel Johnson, 1783

Journal- Credit due


“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.”—Bernard of Chartres, 12th century

Journal- Money


“The sinews of war: unlimited money.”

—Cicero, 1st century BC

Journal- Times


“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

—Charles Dickens, 1859

Journal- Choices


“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


“All that matters is love and work.” —Sigmund Freud, attributed

Journal- Liberty


“Give me liberty, or give me death!”—Patrick Henry, 1775

Journal- Fear


“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933

Journal- Superpowers


“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

—Ernest Shackleton, 1916

Journal- Deception


“O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”

—Sir Walter Scott, 1808

Journal- What you say


“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


“To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”—Oscar Wilde, 1895

Journal- The Question


“To be, or not to be: that is the question.”—William Shakespeare, 1601

Journal- Spring


“In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842

Journal- Hope


“Hope is a waking dream.”—Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Journal- Dream


“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


“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

--Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984

Journal- Boredom


“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

-- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)

Journal- Early Rise


“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


“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


“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”

--Charles Dickens, Great Expectations English novelist (1812 - 1870)

Journal- Hook


“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


“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


“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

--Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

Good Morning. Journal Write #37- Free write Write about what is on your mind.

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