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Quote of the Day:
"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own lives.  Laughing at someone else's mistakes can shorten it."
- Cullen Hightower
           
English 10 A Block

This course is designed to create a rigorous learning environment in which we will use critical thinking, individual and group projects, writing, and reading to become more successful human beings.  We will be examining various genres throughout the semester including drama, poetry, short stories, and novels.  We will also be using our vocabulary workbook to have a better understanding of the English Language and to promote understanding of the above mentioned genres. 


 

SWR A Level B & D Blocks

 
This course is designed to help you feel comfortable speaking in front of groups of people.  It will also prepare you with research tools you will need to write an intensive research paper and numerous speeches.  Throughout the course you will participate in improvisation, research strategies, note taking, and speech writing.  We will work together to create a safe environment that allows us to share ideas and listen to others. 
 
 

 Previous Quotes of the Day

10/6/09
"The less you know, the more you believe."
-Bono
10/5/09
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung
10/2/09
"We don't see things as they are.  We see things as we are."
-  Anais Nin
9/28/09
"It is easier to fight for one's principle's than to live up to them."
-Alfred Adler
9/25/09
"When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong-or absolutely right."
-Albert Guinon
9/24/09
"Insanity:  doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein
9/23/09
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
9/22/09
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln
9/21/09
"If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic."
-Ron Jeffries
9/18/09
"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are."
-Nicholas Chamfort
9/17/09
"Never promise more than you can perform."
-Publilius
9/16/09
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
- Henry David Thoreau
9/15/09
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
- Socrates

9/14/09

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
-  Aristotle Onassis
9/11/09
"Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be"
-  Tori Amos

9/10/09

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.  If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
- Oprah Winfrey

9/9/09

"Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible."
- Dalai Lama

9/8/09

"Bitterness is like cancer.  It eats upon the host.  But anger is like fire.  It burns it all clean."

-  Maya Angelou

9/4/09

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
-Albert Einstein

 9/3/09

"Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness"
-  Richard Carlson

9/2/09

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people:  those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened."
-John M. Richardson Jr.