Quote of the Day Paper #5: January- Deadline = Monday, February 1, 2016
Grammar Focus : Subject-Verb Agreement
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1/29: "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." -Oscar Wilde
1/28: "Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again." -Alex Tan
1/27: "Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard." -Tim Notke
1/25 &1/26: No School; Snow Days
1/22: "Be the best version of yourself in anything you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story" - Stephen Curry
1/21: "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." -Barack Obama
1/20: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." -Lao Tzu
1/19: "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." -Og Mandino
1/15: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/14: "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/13: "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/12: "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/11: "It always amazes me that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously." -David Bowie R.I.P
1/8: "If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
1/7: "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." -Amelia Earhart
1/6: "After all is said and done, more is said than done." Aesop
1/5: "Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -Francis of Assisi
1/4: "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." -John Dewey
Quote of the Day Paper #4- Deadline = Monday, January 4, 2016
Grammar Focus : Expanding our Vocabulary
** Review all the vocabulary we have had their year. Use these words in your writing. Also, review the "Dead Words" worksheet posted in the link here: http://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/msilverman/Dead%20Words%20Reference%20Sheet.pdf
12/22: "Nothing is free in Waterland." -Marmer, Waterworld
12/21: "It is said that every strong man has a weak point." -Unknown
12/18: "I would die for you. But I won't live for you." - Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
12/16: "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." -Bruce Lee
12/15: "The creative adult is the child who survived." - Ursula K. LeGuin
12/14: "How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
12/11: "Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable." -Cristiano Ronaldo
12/10: "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino
12/9: "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." -Jimmy Dean
12/8: "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln
12/7: "Learn my from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." - Groucho Marx
12/4: "Perspective, same coin, two different sides, only you know how to see it." -Lutece Twins
12/3: "The most important thing is to enjoy your life. To be happy, it's all that matters." -Audrey Hepburn
12/2: "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton
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Quote of the Day Paper #3- Deadline = Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Grammar Focus : Basic Spelling Rules
11/27: "I'm grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset." -Jessye Norman
11/26: Happy Thanksgiving "If you are grateful for everything, then whatever you have is enough." -J. Baadsgaard
11/25: "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie." Jim Davis
11/24: "Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else's fairy tale." -Wale Ayeni
11/23: "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles." -Charlie Chaplin
11/19: "I can accept failure; everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying." -Michael Jordan
11/18: "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." -Aristotle
11/17: "The loneliest people are the kindest, the saddest people smile the brightest, the most damaged people are the wisest, all because they don't wish to see anyone else suffer the way they did." -Unknown
11/12: "Get up and follow your dreams or stay in bed and dream about them." -Unknown
11/9: "Make the choices that make the best stories." -Anonymous
11/10: "Putting feathers in your butt doesn't make a you a chicken." -Tyler Durden; Fight Club
11/2: "And in the end, we are all just humans... drunk on the idea that love, only love could heal our brokenness. " - F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby
11/4: "If you hear a voice within you say, 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh
Quote of the Day Paper #2- Deadline = Monday, November 2, 2015
Grammar to incorporate: Using commas correctly
**Please be sure to use the grammar as listed here, not what appears on the handout below**
10/19: "Success has enemies." -American Gangster
10/20: "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination
10/21: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Michael Jordan
10/13: "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." -George Sand
10/15: "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." - George Burns
10/16: "We give our own meanings to life." -Unknown
Week of Respect
10/5: "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being." -Jackie Robinson
10/6: "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." -Bryant H. McGill
10/7: "We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful." - Taylor Swift
10/8: "Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners." -Lawrence Sterne
10/9: "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." -Albert Einstein
10/1: "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
10/2: "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle Onassis
Quote of the Day Paper #1- Deadline= Thursday, October 1, 2015
Grammar to incorporate: Misused words: there/their/they're
**Please be sure to use the grammar as listed here, not what appears on the handout below**
9/28: "Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." -Irving Berlin
9/29: "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not let yourself be defeated." -Maya Angelou
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9/21: "You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment." -Unknown
9/22: "Be yourself, everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde
**9/23: "It ain't over 'til it's over." -Yogi Berra (May 12, 1925- Sept. 22, 2015)
9/24: "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
9/25: "Your dream doesn't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again." -Kathy Witten
9/25: "Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." -Irving Berlin
9/14: "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." -Sydney J. Harris
9/15: "You learn something new every day if you pay attention." -Ray L. Blond
9/16: "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." - Buddah
9/17: "Don't be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top." - Unknown
9/18: "Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it." -Rosemary Brown
9/29: "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not let yourself be defeated." -Maya Angelou
9/30:
9/21: "You don't realize how strong a person really is until you see them at their weakest moment." -Unknown
9/22: "Be yourself, everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde
**9/23: "It ain't over 'til it's over." -Yogi Berra (May 12, 1925- Sept. 22, 2015)
9/24: "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
9/25: "Your dream doesn't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again." -Kathy Witten
9/25: "Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it." -Irving Berlin
9/14: "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." -Sydney J. Harris
9/15: "You learn something new every day if you pay attention." -Ray L. Blond
9/16: "Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." - Buddah
9/17: "Don't be content with being average. Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top." - Unknown
9/18: "Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it." -Rosemary Brown