“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”      - Socrates

“A master can tell you what he expects from you. A teacher, though, awakens your expectations.”    
  - Patricia Neal

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Dorn

“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
- Walt Whitman

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”     - Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

       -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country.  And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.”

                                                      - Winston Churchill

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”   - Socrates

“Education, then, beyond all other devices to human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man…”       - Horace Mann

References 

http://712educators.about.com/od/speechesquotes/a/teacherquotes.htm

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/english.html

 

1. What's a five letter word in the English Language whose pronounciation isn't changed by removing four of its letters?

Hint

The word can be pronounced as one letter.

2. What do the following words have in common?

Assess
Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Voodoo

Hint

It is more than having letters repeated in each one...

3.

Detective Larson gazed around the cluttered dingy apartment. The aging famous columnist Max Worthington had been fatally stabbed. His agent, Roger, had called the police when Max failed to submit his column to the newspaper.

Max's body was draped over his manual typewriter. The detective glanced at the paper in the typewriter. It appeared to be the writer's column. The victim's head rested on the keyboard and had apparently hit random keys causing the last line of the article to be followed by "49t34 w5qgg3e j3". The detective was surprised to see that Max had used a typewriter rather than a computer. Roger, Max's agent, explained that Max found it therapeutic to pound the keys on his typewriter, and despised computers.

Out of a list of acquaintances provided by Max's agent, the detective questioned the following people.

Marisa had been separated from Max for the last year and a half. Although initially the split had been amicable, lately things had gotten nasty about the latest division of their assets. Max was willing to give Marisa the mansion and a generous lump sum payment, but wanted to draw the line at the excessive alimony being demanded by Marisa's lawyer. Marisa was living in the mansion and had a generous pre-alimony settlement and an extremely attractive new boyfriend.

Jillian was Max's current girlfriend. She definitely was a looker and by all appearances was extremely high maintenance. She was also the spring in this May/December romance. Although crying, she was devastatingly attractive in her designer dress. She had a Gucci bag, wore emerald and diamond jewelry and on her wrist a new Rolex. The detective suspected her grief was for the loss of her "gravy train" and not for the deceased.

Max's brother, Gerald, had been dating Marisa when Max had stolen her away. Gerald still held a grudge and blatantly told the detective that "he was glad his brother was dead and good riddance". He hinted that he might try to win Marisa back, now that his brother was dead.

After a brief investigation an arrest was made. Who did the detective arrest?

Answers

1.

Queue!  It is pronounced “Q”, which means a line of people waiting their turn.

http://blog.29daysto.com/2011/01/05/brain-teaser-whats-the-word-language-logic/

2.

If you take the first letter and move it to the rear of the word, you get the same word when read backwards.

http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/32020/word-play.html

3.

The detective arrested Roger, the agent. After looking at the paper in the typewriter, the detective realized that the last line on the news column contained the phrase "roger stabbed me". (49t34 w5qgg3e j3) Max had managed to type the message after being stabbed, but his fingers were positioned one line too high on the keyboard, when he typed his final message.

Apparently Max had planned to terminate his association with Roger and in a fit of anger, Roger had stabbed him.

http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/teaser.php

 

Language: Grade 7-8

"Autobiography is a way to organize the story of  a life and reflect on the past in order to better understand the present. It is a story one tells about oneself."

http://cocopreme.hubpages.com/hub/TheGenreofAutobiography

Class Activity

Write your own autobiography of approximately 250 words in which examples of the simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery and idioms can be clearly distinguished.
A minimum of 5 examples each is required.

 "Where education and technology unite and form an indistinguishable whole, so that teaching and learning become a part of something larger than just education."

Think...

Learn more at

http://www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/MichaelUmphrey/why_use_technology/

And avoid situations like these...