"I'm here with a cause, I'm holding a torch In the corner of your room-can you hear me? And when your dancing, and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly." --Morrissey <3
"You fail only if you stop writing." --Ray Bradbury
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury
"Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations." --Ray Bradbury
"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief." - T.S. Eliot
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me." - T.S. Eliot
"I write because I am curious. I am curious about me." - Pat Mora
"While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not." -Li-Young Lee
"Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"- Claude McKay
"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players" --Shakespeare
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops – at all"
--Emily Dickinson
"All human wisdom is wrapped up in two words--wait and hope" --Emily Dickinson
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession" --Robert Frost
"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length." --Robert Frost
"Half the world is made up of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half, who have nothing to say, keep saying it." --Robert Frost
"The purpose of education: The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." --John Milton
"God doth not need
Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best." --John Milton
"Being alive is a common road, It's what we notice that makes us different." --Naomi Shihab Nye
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently."--Maya Angelou
"If you must write prose and poems The words you use should be your own Don’t plagiarize or take on loans
There’s always someone, somewhere With a big nose, who knows..." --Morrissey
"I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."--Oscar Wilde
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” --Oscar Wilde
"Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner."--Neil Galman
"I wish I could write as mysteriously as a cat." --Edgar Allan Poe
"Memory is an abstract painting. It does not present things as they are, but rather, as they feel." --Eugenia Collier
"My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye. You must be such a fool to pass me by." --Morrissey
"This is your life, are you who you want to be?" --Switchfoot
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."-- William Buttler Yeats
"The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,"--Matthew Arnold
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."--Robert Browning
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." --Alfred Lord Tennyson
"For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.'' --Gerard Manley Hopkins
"You speak of Lord Byron and me—there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees—I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.''--John Keats
"Insults are arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." --Rousseau
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." --Voltaire
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."--Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"May you live all the days of your life."--Jonathan Swift
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." --Jonathan Swift
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence." --John Milton
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."--John Milton
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress
“Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?"
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Love is blind"--Geoffrey Chaucer
"Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.” -- Irenaeus
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." -- Romans 5:8
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for"-- Homer
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.” --Khaled Hosseini
“It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.”--Khaled Hosseini
“For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.”--Khaled Hosseini
"Before I talk, I should read a book" -- The B-52's, "Mesopotamia"
"Fear and panic are two separate emotions. Fear is healthy. Panic is deadly." --from Chasing Mavericks
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." --Christopher Reeve
"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."-- James Thurber
"Today you face the consequences of yesterday's choices. Tomorrow you will face the consequences of today's choices." -- A.W. Tozer
"I want to be like the waves in the sea. I want to be like the clouds in the wind. But I'm me. One day I'll jump out of my skin and shake the sky like a hundred violins." --Sandra Cisneros
"The words are purposes. The words are maps." --Adrienne Rich
"To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard." --Allen Ginsberg
"Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" ---Claude McKay
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." --Harper Lee
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”--Harper Lee
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." --Ernest Hemingway
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” --Ernest Hemingway
“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.” --Ernest Hemingway
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers" --Langston Hughes
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid." --T.S. Eliot
"And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep." --Robert Frost
"Sugar is not a vegetable." --Gertrude Stein
“After we have asked the Spirit to tell us what Jesus would do and have received an answer to it, we are to act regardless of the results to ourselves. Is that understood?”
― Charles M. Sheldon, In His Steps
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” --Mark Twain
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” ― Mark Twain
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." --Mark Twain
"Simplicity is the glory of expression." --Walt Whitman
"Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again . . ." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."--Henry David Thoreau
“It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.”--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. It was a grand achievement, and I prized it highly. From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom." --Frederick Douglass
“There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell. ” ― Edgar Allan Poe
"There's other ways o' learnin' 'bout the behind feet of a mule than gettin' kicked by 'em, sure as I'm named Remus. And just 'cause these here tales is 'bout critters like Br'er Rabbit an' Br'er Fox, that don't mean they ain't the same like can happen to folks! So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned for listenin'." --Uncle Remus "Brer Rabbit"
“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Love him to Eternity" --Anne Bradstreet
"I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books—where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas," --Langston Hughes
What I would like you to do is make a map of his journey. It should be in color. It must be larger than a piece of notebook paper. It has to show Cuba, Florida, the Atlantic Ocean, but I also want you to put some creative labels on it.
Elements of Literary Analysis 
Proverbs 21:15 “It is a joy for the just to do justice, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.”
Amos 5:24 “But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You people drive me nuts… Now I have to find new verses…
That is why we decided to do ours as soon as possible so no one would steal our verses lol
lol
Romans 12:19
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.
Psalm 106:3
“Blessed are those who keep justice, And he who does righteousness at all times!”
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.-Proverbs 28:5
He has shown you, oh man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.-Micah 6:8
DANG IT! You took my first verse! haha, oh well. ❤ I miss you!
I MISS YOU TOO KAYLEY HOPE!! 😭💔
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ YOU AND ME, ME AND YOU: BOTH OF US TOGETHEEEEEERRR! ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
– JUSTICE –
“Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.” (Proverbs 28:5)
Those of this world, whom seek blood spill or seek earthly qualities and look not to GOD, and those whom have no desire to do what is right will never understand justice in the least, for justice is brought forth out of the desire to do what is right. However, those whom seek the LORD’s demands will understand justice.
“When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.” (Proverbs 21:15)
Justice will always be “the right thing done”. Justice has no other terms by which it is pursued, nor can it be used for evil. “The right thing done” is the will of GOD, and the will of GOD cannot be used for evil.
“The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.” (John 3:24.) The commands of GOD (ex. ‘You will not murder’, ‘You will not make idols’, ‘You will not use GOD’s name in vain’, etc.) are to be kept in the heart of a believer, or anyone just. GOD’s commands are “the right thing done”, thus making HIS commands full of justice and what is right.
– SUMMARY –
This world will never understand justice, nor will they seek it fully. Those who seek the LORD will fully understand it’s meaning. This world cannot understand justice because they are considered evildoers, or are not right with GOD, and they will surely perish or be destroyed if justice is done against their not-yet-forgiven sins. The commands of GOD are to be kept in the hearts and minds of HIS followers forever because GOD’s commands are the true definition of justice.
“Turn from evil and do good; then you will dwell in the land forever. For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off; the righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.” (Psalm 37:27-29)
I ordered the book from the library but I don’t know when they will get it in stock. It’s good and bad, good because I will be able to catch up missed reading while I was sick from The Old Man and The Sea as well as the questions. And Bad because I think I will be one week behind..
Any suggestions, Mrs.Brandi, for what I should do?
I know I’m not Mrs. Brandi, but I desperately want to help you, friend! ❤ I'd suggest you read Old Man and The Sea this week, then just catch up next week. I'm not too sure what Mrs. Bee (Hehe cute nick-name, huh?) would have you do, but I believe that's what works most efficiently. And, whatever you do, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE! ~ Hoo!
Sounds good to me! Thanks, Hope the Owl! ;D
No problem! ~ ❤
You can read it online. I linked the pdf above so you can get a nice snack and it should only take you 4 hours at the most to read it.
I even linked the audiobook too, so you can listen and read, sip lemonade and throw popcorn at your face. 🙂 LOL
I’m so glad my mom decided to buy How to Kill a Mockingbird at a book sale two years ago. I can read it where ever I go! Thank you mommy 😀
I’m so excited for Thursday! ❤ ~ Hoo!
I hope you have fun! Wish I could go 😦
Wait- YOU CAN’T GO?! </3 Whyyyyy?
This is one of my favorite books (Ive read it five times) so excited!!!!! Ive read it with an English class before, but under a public school shadow. Looking forward to doing it in Mrs. Brandi’s class because she’s a great teacher:)! ❤ ❤ ❤
Agreed! v<|
|///|….|
|//..__|
HOOT!
Get it?!
My owl failed….
Whoops, I was logged on my wordpress account, that’s why my comment was waiting for moderation.
“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” Leviticus 19:15
“Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.” (Deuteronomy 16:20)
Mrs. Brandi, are we able to just draw multiple pictures (with color of course), and put them in a bundle, and turn it in that way for the The Old Man and the Sea Project?
Like a scrapbook type thingy? Maybe, talk to me about it on Friday.
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He. -Deut 32:4
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Mercy and truth go before Your face. -Ps 89:14
Are we supposed to turn in our five important quotes whe we finish the book or this Friday?
This Friday.
Yay! So we are going to see To Kill a Mockingbird tomorrow. 🙂
Here are the people going–Mrs. Kim, Tristan, Kayley, Samantha, Lilly, and Kelly.
I am bummed that the others cannot come 😦 We will miss you guys!!! But I totally understand that this was last minute.
But I am excited to spend time with the rest of you!!!
Please let your parents know that there will be the same words that are in the book. FYI–Like on page 7 I think were a couple and there are bad people that say bad things. But it is a Christian theater, so they won’t embellish it or be insensitive.
Wow. Small group. I can’t wait to throw stuff at Tristan. 😀 It’ll be fun!
I request a bucket of rocks for Tristan… FOR YOU MACEY! ❤ I throw them at him in honor of Macey. I shall battle him for her hand! ~ UNGUARD!
Oh my goodness Kayley you made me laugh so hard! 😀 haha I love you ❤
I ❤ you too!
“The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.” Proverbs 29:7
“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8