D97-Julian 7.1 Social Studies with Mr. Kannan: “I am trying not to bury the lead!” The brevity of this week’s blog

Sunday, April 6, 2008

“I am trying not to bury the lead!” The brevity of this week’s blog

As we progress and conclude our teaching assignments, this week’s blog will be a brief one. All stakeholders should keep the following days in mind:
* Wednesday- All groups will assess all students on their in class presence and homework completion. Grades will be recorded by the end of Wednesday’s class.
* Thursday- In class review for exam on chapter 9. The use of a student generated, handwritten index card will be contingent on how students collaborate with one another this week.
* Friday- Take exam on chapter 9.

Taking from the news media, I am deliberately downplaying expectations and insinuation from this week’s blog because of what will lie ahead. Few can accuse of my burying the lead story, so tune in next week where more will be divulged about what lies ahead. Accordingly, I have not added a quote for this week and the Wacky Metaphoric Analysis has remained from last week. As always, these represent the fleeting opportunities for extra credit.

All best, happy teaching and hunting (after these assignments, some would say the two are synonymous).
Mr. Kannan

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Quotes to place the journey in context- Identify the speaker/ writer for e.c.

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

"What is this life, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?”

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."

"Life always gets harder toward the summit- the cold increases, responsibility increases.”

"A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."

"There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.”

"Nobody expected me to ever be president. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen any cabbages were sprouting out."

“Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.”

“When you know your name, you should hang on to it for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.”

“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”

"Hope is that thing with feathers, eternally perched in the soul.”

“And miles to go before I sleep.”

"So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.”

"…To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

" 'Tis done. We have finally become a nation."

"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it.”

"Greed is good.”

"Every battle is won before it is ever fought."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“I knew a man who once said, ‘Death smiles at us all. The only thing a man can do is smile back.”

"“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.”

"For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn- much."

"“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”

"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."

"Spring is when life’s alive in everything.”

"You and I have unfinished business."

"Whispers of a nameless fear.”

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

"From sea to shining sea."

D97-Julian 7.1 Social Studies with Mr. Kannan

Sunday, April 6, 2008

“I am trying not to bury the lead!” The brevity of this week’s blog

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Quotes to place the journey in context- Identify the speaker/ writer for e.c.