This Week's Inspirational Inscriptions Assignment!
The Art of Cursive Handwriting
May 27th-29th: School Friends“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”--Ray Bradbury
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems, and meeting friends who think and feel the same way you do when they experience the same things is a powerful attachment."--Veronia Roth, author of the Divergent series.
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May 12th-16th: Destination Mars! with Ray Bradbury |
April 21st-25th: Science and Poetry!--Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and author
March 27th & 28th:
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March 13th-14th"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
--Winston Churchill British Prime Minister (1940-1945, 1951-1955) "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
--General George S. Patton, Jr. Commander, 3rd U.S. Army March 6th-7th:“I wish the earlier me understood work and practice more. I thought, 'Oh, these other people, they just have something that I don’t have.' When really, they are just people who work more. I mean, persistence is talent, really. Just sticking with it. Talent is not stopping.”
--Shirley Temple Black, Depression-era child star and U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Czechoslovakia, and the United Nations. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
We must do the thing that we think we cannot." --Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady 1933-1945 during the Great Depression and World War II. Shy and quiet in private life, she developed a cheerful and optimistic public character as a leader of social issues in the United States. |
February 27th-28th:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
32nd U.S. President
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
32nd U.S. President
"The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in good government than in good politics."
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
32nd U.S. President
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
32nd U.S. President
February 10th-14th:
Malcolm X, African-American Muslim human rights activist, 1964
If you need more information to understand this quote, go to
http://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195 and skim it before writing a response. |
February 3rd-7th--Please inscribe these quotes in your composition book in your best cursive handwriting, and follow up with a brief paraphrase or summary of what the quote means to you and a connection to your life.
This week's efforts will be graded for cursive skill (3 points), response (4 points), conventions (capitalization, punctuation, and spelling) (3 points), for 10 points each for 5 quotes for a total of 40 points.
This week's efforts will be graded for cursive skill (3 points), response (4 points), conventions (capitalization, punctuation, and spelling) (3 points), for 10 points each for 5 quotes for a total of 40 points.
January 26th-31st--Please inscribe these quotes in your composition book in your best cursive handwriting, and follow up with a brief paraphrase or summary of what the quote means to you and a connection to your life.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” ― Emma Lazarus, 1883 This is NOT part of the quote: Emma Lazarus was an American Jewish poet born in New York City. She is remembered for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet was written for and donated to an auction to raise funds to build the pedestal. "We will always welcome the Einsteins of this world--those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. But the truth is that the most innovative, motivated citizen is the poor or uneducated one who has been given an opportunity.”
Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon “There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.” ― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, 1957
This is NOT part of the quote: Dandelion Wine takes place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois. The title refers to a drink made with crushed dandelion petals. In the story, dandelion wine is a metaphor for a 12-year-old packing all of the joys of summer into a single bottle. |
January 21st-24th--Please inscribe these quotes in your composition book in your best cursive handwriting, and follow up with a brief paraphrase or summary of what the quote means to you and a connection to your life.
This week's efforts will be graded for cursive skill (3 points), response (4 points), conventions (capitalization, punctuation, and spelling) (3 points), for 10 points each, for a total of 40 points.
January 13th-17th: Please inscribe the following quotes in your composition books this week in your best cursive handwriting, then respond with a brief reflection based on what you know about the speaker or how it connects to your experience. This week's efforts will be graded for cursive skill (3 points), response (3 points), conventions (capitalization, punctuation, and spelling) (2 points), for 8 points each, for a total of 40 points.
“Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy—they’re given, after all. Choices can be hard.”--Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Chief Executive Officer
"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. Close observation of life is critical to good writing." -- Susan Sontag, writer and filmmaker
“Mathematical knowledge is unlike any other knowledge. A mathematical formula means the same thing to anyone anywhere—no matter what gender, religion, or skin color; it will mean the same thing to anyone a thousand years from now.”--Dr. Edward Frenkel, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
January 6th-10th: Please inscribe the following quotes in your composition books this week in your best cursive handwriting, then respond with a brief reflection based on what you know about the speaker or how it connects to your experience. This week's efforts will be graded for completeness and content only, not skill.
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
<In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.>
Louis Pasteur, Lecture, University of Lille (7 Dec 1854)
<In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.>
Louis Pasteur, Lecture, University of Lille (7 Dec 1854)
“The recipe for success is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.”
--Mark Twain, 1894
--Mark Twain, 1894
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
--Alexander Graham Bell, 1901
How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
--Alexander Graham Bell, 1901
How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
“Genius is one-percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
--Thomas Edison
Harper's Monthly, 1912
--Thomas Edison
Harper's Monthly, 1912
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in a laboratory is not only a technician but also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress us like a fairy tale.”--Marie Curie,
Madame Curie : A Biography (1937)
by Eve Curie Labouisse
Madame Curie : A Biography (1937)
by Eve Curie Labouisse