Seize the Day! Carpe Diem!

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!