Quotes for Term 4 with my Sincerest Apologies

"A lot of people think or believe or know they feel (experience) -- but that's thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling (experiencing). Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel (experience). Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel (experience), you're nobody-but-yourself. To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
--From Critical Path

Buckminister Fuller

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
--Walter Lippmann--

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes--

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
--George Bernard Shaw--

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
--Leo Rosten --

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
--Harry Firestone--

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller--

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson--

"The time is always right to do what is right."
--Martin Luther King--

"It matters if you just don't give up."
--Stephen Hawking--

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
--Kahlil Gibran

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.
--Robert E. Lee--

You have never really lived until you've done something for someone who can never repay you.
--Unknown--

Children are true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthood without losing the ability to see through young eyes.
--Anne Geddes--

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
--Lady Bird Johnson--

Every child is born a potential genius.
--R. Buckminister Fuller--

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving... and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley--

"Knowing others and knowing oneself, in one hundred battles no danger. Not knowing the other and knowing oneself, one victory for one loss. Not knowing the other and not knowing oneself, in every battle certain defeat."
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War--

"There are certain emotions that will kill your drive; frustration and confusion. You can change these to a positive force. Frustration means you are on the verge of a breakthrough. Confusion can mean you are about to learn something. Expect the breakthrough and expect to learn."
--Kathleen Spike, Master Certified Coach--

"Reading and weeping opens the door to one's heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one's soul."
--M.K. Simmons--

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
--William James--

"Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding."
--Chinese proverb--

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions."
--John Hancock--

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
--Malcolm Forbes--

The point of wisdom is not simply to do well ... it is to do good.
--Patricia Monaghan--

People rise to the challenge when it is their challenge.
--Belasco & Stayer--

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
--Carl Schurz--

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
--Abraham Lincoln--

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
--Seneca--

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--Robert F. Kennedy--

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
--Martin Luther King Jr.--

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
--Buck Rodgers--

Every child comes with a message that God is yet not discouraged by man.
--Unknown--

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
--Albert Einstein--

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
--Tom Brokaw--

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
--Albert Einstein--

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
--Robert Frost--

The understanding of atomic physics is child's play, compared with the understanding of child's play.
-- David Kresh--

And there is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it is going to be a butterfly.

_ Buckminister Fuller –

“For every problem there’s a solution that is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand. And it’s wrong.”

Charles Darwin

Innovators learn that it is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

Art Fry

In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind

- Louis Pasteur-

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them

- Albert Einstein-

It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown.

-Eric Hoffer-

Hope you read, reflect and act on these quotes. It was good to teach you and learn from you. take care all of you.

Poetry

If you are interested in exploring the world of poetry, explore the reaources here to get a taste of the various manifestations poetry can take and how poets not anly say more with less but are also exploring saying more differently.

Shel Silverstein was one of my favourite poets to teach to my pupils and he still is. These are some of his poems below.

How Many, How Much
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How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many slices in a bread?
Depends how thin you cut it.
How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live 'em.
How much love inside a friend?
Depends how much you give 'em.
`

Put Something In
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Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-grumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.
`

Reflection
`
Each time I see the Upside-Down Man
Standing in the water,
I look at him and start to laugh,
Although I shouldn't oughtter.
For maybe in another world
Another time
Another town,
Maybe HE is right side up
And I am upside down.
`

The Little Boy and the Old Man
`
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the little old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
"I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
"But worst of all," said the boy,"it seems
Grownups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
"I know what you mean," said the little old man.
`

The Oak and the Rose
`
An oak tree and a rosebush grew,
Young and green together,
Talking the talk of growing things-
Wind and water and weather.
And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed
The oak tree grew so high
That now it spoke of newer things-
Eagles, mountain peaks and sky.
"I guess you think you're pretty great,"
The rose was heard to cry,
Screaming as loud as it possibly could
To the treetop in the sky.
"And now you have no time for flower talk,
Now that you've grown so tall."
"It's not so much that I've grown," said the tree,
"It's just that you've stayed so small."
`

The Bridge
`
This bridge will only take you halfway there
To those mysterious lands you long to see:
Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fairs
And moonlit woods where unicorns run free.
So come and walk awhile with me and share
The twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known.
But this bridge will only take you halfway there-
The last few steps you'll have to take alone.

Another of my favourtie poets is e e cummings. This is a quote from him which I cherish to this day.

"to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting" -- ee cummings

These are some of his poems for your reading and thinking pleasure.

maggie and milly and molly and may by

maggie and milly and molly and may 

went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang 

so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing 

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone 

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) 

it's always ourselves we find in the sea

my father moved through dooms of love

my father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give,
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height


this motionless forgetful where
turned at his glance to shining here;
that if(so timid air is firm)
under his eyes would stir and squirm


newly as from unburied which
floats the first who,his april touch
drove sleeping selves to swarm their fates
woke dreamers to their ghostly roots


and should some why completely weep
my father's fingers brought her sleep:
vainly no smallest voice might cry
for he could feel the mountains grow.


Lifting the valleys of the sea
my father moved through griefs of joy;
praising a forehead called the moon
singing desire into begin


joy was his song and joy so pure
a heart of star by him could steer
and pure so now and now so yes
the wrists of twilight would rejoice


keen as midsummer's keen beyond
conceiving mind of sun will stand,
so strictly(over utmost him
so hugely) stood my father's dream


his flesh was flesh his blood was blood:
no hungry man but wished him food;
no cripple wouldn't creep one mile
uphill to only see him smile.


Scorning the Pomp of must and shall
my father moved through dooms of feel;
his anger was as right as rain
his pity was as green as grain


septembering arms of year extend
yes humbly wealth to foe and friend
than he to foolish and to wise
offered immeasurable is


proudly and(by octobering flame
beckoned)as earth will downward climb,
so naked for immortal work
his shoulders marched against the dark


his sorrow was as true as bread:
no liar looked him in the head;
if every friend became his foe
he'd laugh and build a world with snow.


My father moved through theys of we,
singing each new leaf out of each tree
(and every child was sure that spring
danced when she heard my father sing)


then let men kill which cannot share,
let blood and flesh be mud and mire,
scheming imagine,passion willed,
freedom a drug that's bought and sold


giving to steal and cruel kind,
a heart to fear,to doubt a mind,
to differ a disease of same,
conform the pinnacle of am


though dull were all we taste as bright,
bitter all utterly things sweet,
maggoty minus and dumb death
all we inherit,all bequeath


and nothing quite so least as truth
--i say though hate were why men breathe--
because my Father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all

If

If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.

If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.

If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,--
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.

What do you think of the pets and their poems?

Why not try this activity out.

Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?"

take the leaf of a tree

trace its exact shape

the outside edges

and inner lines

memorize the way it is fastened to the twig

(and how the twig arches from the branch)

how it springs forth in April

how it is panoplied in July

by late August

crumple it in your hand

so that you smell its end-of-summer sadness

chew its woody stem

listen to its autumn rattle

watch it as it atomizes in the November air

then in winter

when there is no leaf left

invent one

Eve Merriam

1) Modify the poem above by changing the major idea of a tree/nature. Retain the rhythm and ideas expressed by Eve Mirriam.

2) Write your own way of “How to become a poet”.

Try this activties below.
a) Make a frame out of cardboard or vanguard. Go to any part of Rosyth through that frame. Find one thing with poetry in it and write a poem about what you see. Choose a piece of music to accmpany the poem. take pictures from different angles of what you see for a digital poem.

b) Word Awareness Centre
Using these generic sentences, expand on them.

E.g. "It was a nice day" becomes, "The day smelled of freshly cut grass, as the newborn sun poked its head over the horizon, spreading its life-giving rays over the landscape."

- He/She was a nice person.

- we had alot of fun.

- I like __________ very much.


etcetcetcetcetcetcetcetcetcetcetcetc

TIME for writing

Go the link below and click on the link "Time: Improving your writing" to get a better idea how the writers of TIME magazine go about their job, with explanation of the processes involved.

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/course4/index.html

Short Stories

For those pupils interested in the 'short story' strand, these are online resources that will refresh, reinforce and reinvigorate your understanding and appreciation for fiction and the short story in particular. If you are interested in pursuing a novel, many of the elements you will come across here will also apply.
Please write your comments , questions and queries.
I am still trying to figure out where you can write your drafts for peer review etc and where we will eventually publish your works.
Any suggestions?


Elements of a short story
http://staff.fcps.net/tcarr/shortstory/plot1.htm

Go to the link above and complete all the activities before you proceed to the next lesson. You may choose any order in which to go through th elements, but it would be prefereable if theme was done last.