Writing Response 1

Directions: Create a new Gdoc. Name it: Writing Response 1- your name. Put it in your shared English 12 folder. Then respond to one of the following quotes. Your goal should be to write about a page.

Quotes:

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” 
― Mark Twain

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” 
― Robert Frost


“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” 
― Plutarch

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!” 
― Bill Watterson

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” 
― Noam Chomsky

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.” 
― Stanley Kubrick

Welcome

Welcome students. We are going to use this blog to do some different kinds of work in English class. Some of this will be new for you, some new for me, but we'll make it work and hopefully experience an exciting, different way to learn.

Your first assignment is simple- just respond to this post. You don't need to say much, just that you read it and were able to respond. 

Thanks!