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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Quotation Response #5

1. America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~Abraham Lincoln


2. America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. ~Gloria Steinem

Pick a quote and write a 220 word response.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Quotation Response #4

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. ~Muhammad Ali


Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything
~Muhammad Ali



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. ~Marianne Williamson

Friday, September 10, 2010

QUOTATION RESPONSE #3

Pick one of the quote below and write a response in 220 words.

QUOTE 1 - I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control. ~Charles Barkley

QUOTE 2 - We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

QUOTE 3 - Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. ~Muhammad Ali

Monday, August 30, 2010

Quotation Response #2

Respond to one of the quotations below in 220 words. Focus on using transitions and correctly punctuated compound sentences.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. ~Michel de Montaigne


I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do. ~Christopher Reeves

Friday, August 20, 2010

Quotation Response #1

Pick one quote and write a 250 word response relating the quote to your life, someone else you know and/or current events.

"You must do the things you think you cannot do" ~Eleanor Roosevelt


Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi