Seize the Day...Carpe Diem! is going along the border in my classroom! I purchased some word wall art for inspirational/educational quotes to put up in my 2009-2010 classroom.
I got the idea from Dead Poets Society, and was further inspired by Gus Lloyd, who has the "Seize the Day" program on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio, on the Catholic Channel at 159 Sirius and 117 XM. I enjoy listening to Gus, every day, and he has given me ideas for quick writes for the students' journals: For example, one day he had callers call in about their "first brush with celebrity." I like it, and many stories will unfold, as the students put their own together.
Thanks Gus!
In Blessed Black font, the walls of inspiration flowing around the room, will read:
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling
"One learns through the heart, not the eyes or intellect." - Mark Twain
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generation - is a pleasure beyond compare." - Kendo Yoshid
"The more that you read the more things you'll know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go."
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth." - Samuel Johnson
"Carpe Diem! Seize the Day!
" Thus we play the fools with time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us - Henry IV, Act ii, Scene 2 - William Shakespeare
WOW!
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Literature: The Perfect Game
The Perfect Game, by William Winokur is worth your read! LionsGate, a movie company put this into a movie over a year ago, and we are still waiting for its release! Originally set to come out in 2008, here we are in July 2009, and LionsGate is mum on a release date. For more about that...click here.
Based on a true story, the 342 page book is an inspiration, and I am working this summer to have The Perfect Game district-board approved for our public high schools.
I pray that there is no opposition to approval, although the next hurdle will be funding the classroom copies. Funding for new copies of books has always been an issue, all the years of my teaching. Never enough $ for the English classroom, but $ for athletics, science tables, technology computers and smart boards...but books?
Maybe someday my students will have a Kindle in their hands!
Saint Maria Goretti
Maria Goretti is an amazing example for our youth. She is also one of the few incorruptibles. This is a miraculous sign where the dead body does not deteriorate, and it is a sign for humans to witness that the Truth of our earthly goal of heaven, and the glory that is ours with the reuniting of the body and soul in heaven.
If only my students knew of her faith, her strength, her trust in the Lord, her story and her reward of incorruptibility.
I recommend the movie available at Amazon, Maria Goretti:
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