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Say, Mean, Matter 10

"So don't give me no stress because you fail to impress

If my own people give me nothing, others will give me still less."

Lisa Fredrick

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Thanksgiving

The Task
http://poster.4teachers.org/worksheet/view.php?id=127430
The Resource
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/?ESP=Teachers/ib/20081113/awa/sa_thanksgiving_chats_2_5///thlp/tout////
The Name
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/search/0/puritan
Name Game
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/ss971114a.htm

Remember Allerton
Love Brewster
Wrestling Brewster
Humility Cooper
Oceanus Hopkins (born en route to Plymouth)

Old English
http://www.mun.ca/Ansaxdat/vocab/wordlist.html

Study Verbal

Study!! Study!!

Verbal Phrases



*Verbal phrases can be subjects, objects, or verbal modifiers.


*The three main verbal phrases are:

Participles

They can function as adjectives

Verb + “-ed” or “-ing”

Infinitives "to + verb"

They can be nouns, adjectives, and adverbs.

Gerunds

Function as nouns.

Verb + “-ing” can be subject,object, or verbal modifier.



*Examples:

Participles

Participle phrase:

Panting furiously, the dog chased

the rabbit.

Infinitive

(bold= infinitive; italics: infinitive phrase)

He decided to go downtown.

(“to go” is included in the infinitive phrase. The infinitive is always included in the infinitive phrase.)

Gerunds

He gets confidence from knowing so much.

(The gerund is always included in the gerundive phrase.)

Thanks to Ariana Webber

Say, Mean, Matter 9

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Say Mean Matter 8

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Maya Angelou

Halloween Webquest

http://www.stbern.com/Classroom%20Pages/computer/Halloween%20Web%20Quest/scary_web_quest_intro.htm

Say, Mean, Matter 7

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne

Say, Mean, Matter 6

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Pick a Picture Poetry

Cone
my own
frozen friendship
drips
down
down
down
windshield wiper of
a tongue working slap, slap, slap
cannot save
my red and white polka dot dress.

What a mess

Webquest Polio

http://www.scde.k12.tn.us/chms/jaz/polio.htm

Say, Mean, Matter 5

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Say, Mean, Matter 4

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

Say, Mean, Matter 3

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Say, Mean, Matter 2

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."
Mark Twain

Reflection on A White Flower
Yesterday I was the center of white satin petals arranged adoringly around me on my special day. Soon the season passed and the petals faded, fell away crumbled power in a cold wind. I also hardened, fell apart in the dew of a frosty morning, but that moment was my glory. The sun kissed me.

Say (literally) Mean (between the lines) Matter (to you, the world)?

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. SeussUS author & illustrator (1904 - 1991)

Cyber Safety

Go to http://www.4teachers.org/

Track #244344

View in frames

Evacuation

Post Gustav, where are we? I'm in GA. Check Google.docs. I received few invitations to view. Reflect for extra credit on Friday if you can.

Big Potato Leads

Big Potato Leads
(you really want to dig up what's going on)
Homework 8/27/08
Write (3) leads to your possible personal narrative.

Pick your best and post it here.

My summer 2008

Welcome back!

Share your summer, the good, the bad, and the unattractive. RMS graduates welcome.