| TeachersTOteachers.com Learn about the ADD Kit (for adults, too) Return to the MAIN PAGE PARENTS: Sign up for WORD A DAY Rturn to the TUTOR page Click here to learn about Learning Styles on Tutor Page 2 Samples of poetry and literature for tutees to choose and commit to memory. Why do I need to learn this? TO a 17-year-old: when you sit in the office of an admissions director at a university, will you have anything to talk about? Can you get inside his/her head? You need to have a common experience. Perhaps you see a photo from Firenze on her wall. “Ah, Ponte Vecchio. I heard that there are gold merchants on the bridge, working in stalls that are 400 years old.” When you are asked, “How do you like our campus?” you can say, “it reminded me about the first time I heard H_____’s Messiah. I really enjoyed the echo in your cathedral.” Music samples: Beethoven’s fifth, Pastoral Messiah (who wrote it? Which composer wrote in English? Which composer had more than 4 children?) Who wrote the wedding march? He also did the music for Midsummer’s night dream. Shakespeare (he shakes the spear) When to the marriage of two minds…. 33. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at sometime are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings... Now, in the names of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed That he is grown so great? --Julius Caesar, I:2 32. Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous... Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius... I rather tell thee what is to be feared Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar. --Julius Caesar, I:2 31. Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge... Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war... --Julius Caesar, III:1 30. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones... You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! --Julius Caesar, III:2 22. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. --MacBeth, V:5 21. Lay on, MacDuff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" --MacBeth, V:8 20. O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant... Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder. Nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulfurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarle'd oak Than the soft myrtle. But man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal. --Measure for Measure, II:2 19. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O what a goodly outside falsehood hath! --The Merchant of Venice, I:3 18. Signor Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my money and my usances. Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cutthroat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is my own. --The Merchant of Venice, I:3 17. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? --The Merchant of Venice, III:1 16. The course of true love never did run smooth; But either it was different in the blood - Or else misgrafted in respect of years - Or else it stood upon the choice of friends - Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!', The jaws of darkenss do devour it up. --A Midsummer Night's Dream, I:1 http://www.gva.net/misenber/shakes.htm 11. One that loved not wisely but too well. --Othello, V:2 9. O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse they name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy... What's Montague? It is not hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. --Romeo and Juliet, II:2 8. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all to short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. --Sonnet 18. See also Summer Sonnet 2. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. --Twelfth Night, II:5 43. To be, or not to be: that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die; to sleep; To sleep? perchance to dream! Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffl'd off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And make us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus consicence does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. --Hamlet, III:1 42. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in batallions. --Hamlet, IV:5 41. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chop-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that. --Hamlet, V:1 38. Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustilarion! I'll tickle your catastrophe! --II Henry IV, II:1 37. Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger... I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit; and upon this charge, Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!" --Henry V, III:1 The forward violet thus did I chide… Friends, Romans, Countrymen. L_nd me your ___rs. Who said it? great quotes from http://www.bartleby.com/101/ Jokes Puns When she told me I was average, she was just being mean. ------------------------------------------- A neutron goes into a bar and asks the bartender, "How much for a beer?" The bartender replies, "For you,no charge. ------------------------------------------ Two molecules are walking down the street and they run in to each other. One says to the other, "Are you all right?" "No I lost an electron!" "Are you sure" "I'm positive !" ---------------------------------------- Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist's Novocain during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication. The idea is to keep each section short so you can identify it and listen again, if you need to. http://www.famousquotesandjokes.com/ How do crazy people go through the forest? They take the psycho path. How do you get holy water? Boil the Hell out of it. What did the fish say when he hit a concrete wall? "Dam!" What do Eskimos get from sitting on the ice too long? Polaroid's. What do prisoners use to call each other? Cell phones. What do the letters DNA stand for? National Dyslexics Association. What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick. What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Nacho Cheese. What do you call Santa's helpers? Subordinate Clauses. What do you call four bull fighters in quicksand? Quattro sinko. What do you get from a pampered cow? Spoiled milk. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? Frostbite. What has four legs, is big, green, fuzzy, and if it fell out of a tree would kill you? A pool table. What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck. What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup? Anyone can roast beef. Where do you find a dog with no legs? Right where you left him. Why are there so many Smiths in the phone book? They all have phones. Why do bagpipers walk when they play? They're trying to get away from the noise. What do you get when you cross a pit bull with a collie? A dog that runs for help ... after it bites your leg off. What does it mean when the flag is at half mast at the post office? They're hiring. What kind of coffee was served on the Titanic? Sanka. A certain man was infatuated with a young woman, but was so timid he never had the courage to speak to her. In fact, he told his therapist that every time he got near her he felt like nothing more than a tiny pebble. "Well," his therapist responded, "if you want to get the girl you'll just have to be a little boulder!" _________________________________ Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing several paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the crime, getting in and out past security, he was captured only 2 blocks away when his Econoline ran out of gas. When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied: "I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh." ============= GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE, THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. 2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair. 3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person. 4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold an egg. 5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food. 6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair. 7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time. 8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. 9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. 10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap. GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE, THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED: 1) Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-O to a tree. 2) Wrinkles don't hurt. 3) Families are like fudge, mostly sweet, with a few nuts. 4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground. 5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside. 6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the joy. GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD: 1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. 2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. 3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there. 4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster. 5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions. 6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. 7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE: 1) You believe in Santa Claus. 2) You don't believe in Santa Claus. 3) You are Santa Claus. 4) You look like Santa Claus. SUCCESS: At age 04 success is . . . not peeing in your pants. At age 12 success is . . . having friends. At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 20 success is . . . having sex. At age 35 success is . . . having money. At age 50 success is . . . having money. At age 60 success is . . . having sex. At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license. At age 75 success is . . . having friends. At age 80 success is . . . not peeing in your pants. (From Kurt Vonnegut) Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Ok, worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's. Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen. Einstein's Speech When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker's circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks & manner) that he was tired of speechmaking. "I have and idea, boss," his chauffeur said. "I've heard you give this speech so many times. I'll bet I could give it for you." Einstein laughed loudly and said, "Why not? Let's do it!" When they arrive at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur's cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein's speech and even answered a few questions expertly. Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody's fool. Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, "Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me." (how to tell a joke) get to the point, avoid a long set up but paint the picture. Random Quote: "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein Random Quote:"Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rest and expatiates in a life to come. Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n."- Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein Only when the doors of perception are cleansed will man see things as they really are - infinite." - William Blake http://www.famousquotesandjokes.com/quote.asp?categoryId=38#Quote READING http://www.ifyoulovetoread.com/book/ This site is for children who love to read, laugh, and think. It has a book I wrote about my childhood, including when I went to boarding school in England, as Harry Potter did. But my book tells a true story. It also has books and stories by E. Nesbit, including a funny love story (scroll to see them) and famous and not so famous fairy tales. Maybe stories about math subjects Not sure… http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/alltopics.html Trivia contests http://www.funtrivia.com/quizlistgold.cfm?cat=1915 Literature History of American Literature ... in the history of American literature. ... 1817-1862), the main Transcendentalists, important ... Though most modern readers consider Henry ... was also writing the poetry ... http://news1.yasuda-u.ac.jp/ptervin/HAL/hamlit08.html http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/ Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole. HISTORY Here are some questions to ask yourself about history When did the Normans take over England? When did England separate from France? What was the historical background to the movie TIMELINE? The key date was 1350-something When was glass invented? What is the largest pyramid in the world? Where is Borobudur? How can you use google.com with these investigations? What are the exxaggerations or distortions or facts in this flash presentation? http://198.173.255.220/conen/conflict_2.html www.conceptwizards.com www.WhatDoYaKnow.com Dennis Yuzenas of Palm Beach County Schools asks questions that many students find interesting... Science Art Math: www.mathforartists.com Math Links (the FAU professor's links) Law: go to google.com and ask questions that you might hear in a law class. Or type in "Legal questions" and see what appears. "Law and ethics" More exercises for every student to complete: Be intuitive. Say the first answer that comes to mind and take time to write why you answered that way. If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be? If you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be? If you were a piece of furniture, what furniture would you be? If you were an animal, what animal would you be? If you were a car, what car would you be? If you were an airplane, what airplane would you be? If you were a type of building material, what material would you be? If you were a building, what building would you be? If you were a computer, what type of computer would you be? If you were a body part, what part of the body would you be? If you were a key on a keyboard, what letter would you be? If you were a type of weather, what type of weather would you be? If you were a color, what color would you be? If you were a shape, what shape would you be? If you were a mathematical equation or a type of operation in math, what would you be? ALSO: nut, flower, tree, heavenly body... Comments from the teacher who created this lesson Just a thought: I prefer to stick to things in nature as much as possible because they are so much more powerful in their beauty and meaning and therefore evoke more of our eternal nature. Plus once you get into things like cars, the tendency is to starting wanting what you don't have, and that spoils the exercise. And body parts could get weird!! What emerged from this for us was a blossoming of each person's personality as well as an appreciation for the awesome beauty and divine design that is evident in nature (whether it's a Brazil nut or a palm tree or a persimmon!). Just wanted to share that. -- Ms. Appleton www.writeAbookNow.com one of the exercises is to write for five minutes about 3 words, such as Fire Clock Certain (you can add any prefixes or suffixes, such as five o'clock or uncertain or certainly). The following is from a guy named Steve who created the Write A Book Now web site He makes some interesting observations: These are truths you’ve probably suspected all along: 1. Talent: in order to write a book, the less writing talent you have, the easier it will be for you. If you’re a professional writer right now, it’s an uphill struggle as you try to perfect what’s already perfect. These techniques will free you from the bonds of perfection and you’ll discover in minutes that you already have all the talent you need to write an outstanding book… honest! 2. Creativity: I have one word of advice for you when it comes to creativity. DON’T. I’ll show you exactly what publishers want… and it’s NOT creativity. Those who wish to be creative will rarely be published. The sooner you learn that, the sooner you’ll be a very successful author. 3. Time: You’re a busy professional. You’ve probably been told it takes years to write a good book. These are lies. You can write your book in 14 days or less, even if you’ve got a full-time business or career and have other demands on your time. No tricks, no asterisks. As one of my students, professional speaker John Watkis, said to me, “Steve, if I hadn’t used your information I’d probably STILL be writing my book. A book that’s now published and selling fast!” 4. Luck: Forget luck. Luck has nothing to do with writing and publishing your book. Follow the guidelines I’ll set out for you and you’ll be on a direct course for publishing success. 5. Writing ability: Do you know how to talk? Then you know how to write! Writing isn’t like painting or sculpting or playing tennis. You don’t need to spend years learning the basics and mastering the techniques. You’ve already done that as a child. You’re already a master writer. I give you the techniques to make it happen! 6. Getting an agent: I don’t want you to simply write a manuscript. I want you to SELL your book to a publisher. I’ll give you the three steps to getting an agent that will have several of them lining up within 36 hours! That's right, 36 HOURS! Now, those are all bold claims. And each one of them has been challenged by “professional” writers. But when they see the techniques and strategies, when they actually use them, they actually write me letters afterwards apologizing and agreeing that these strategies not only work, they work better than anything they’ve ever seen in their lives. Go To Tutor Page 2 Ask about the ADD Kit Sign up for WORD A DAY |
More exercises for every student to complete: Be intuitive. Say the first answer that comes to mind and take time to write why you answered that way. If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be? If you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be? If you were a piece of furniture, what furniture would you be? If you were an animal, what animal would you be? If you were a car, what car would you be? If you were an airplane, what airplane would you be? If you were a type of building material, what material would you be? If you were a building, what building would you be? If you were a computer, what type of computer would you be? If you were a body part, what part of the body would you be? If you were a key on a keyboard, what letter would you be? If you were a type of weather, what type of weather would you be? If you were a color, what color would you be? If you were a shape, what shape would you be? If you were a mathematical equation or a type of operation in math, what would you be? ALSO: nut, flower, tree, heavenly body... Other items of interest a useful workshop... I've found the following web site to be helpful in describing the relationship between effort and reward... http://www.excellerated.com/ moneyNyou/flipcharts/ index.html A fabulous view of the World created by Bucky Fuller www.geni.org http://www.geni.org/globalenergy /library/buckminster_fuller/ dymaxion_map/dymaxion_ projection.shtml |