March 15, 2010
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
Antiphanes (ancient Greek dramatist)

March 11, 2010
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt (19th/20th century American adventurer and politician, Nobel Prize winning President)

March 1, 2010
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing.
Dale Carnegie (American writer and lecturer; known for self-improvement/motivation classes)

February 22, 2010
The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt (20th century American stateswoman, First Lady)

February 17, 2010
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein (20th century Swiss mathematician, physicist, and public philosopher)

February 8, 2010
The precepts of the law are these:  to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due.
Justinian I (Byzantine emperor)

February 2, 2010
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive; easy to givern but impossible to enslave.
General Omar N. Bradley (20th century American military leader)

January 26, 2010
Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington (first President of the United States)

January 19, 2010
The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.  The whole secret is being pliable.
from the novel Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster, 1912

January 11, 2009

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
Trey Parker & Matt Stone (animators)

January 4, 2010
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein (German theoretical physicist)

December 14, 2009
He who allows his day to pass without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows:
he breathes but does not live.
Proverb

December 7, 2009
You will never do anything in this world without courage.  It is the greastest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle (Greek philosopher)

November 30, 2009
We should look to the mind and not to the outward appearance.
Aesop (Greek philosopher)

November 23, 2009
We should come home from adventure, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experiences and character.
Henry David Thoreau (American author, poet, naturalist, historian, philosopher)

November 17, 2009
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
Albert Einstein (German theoretical physicist)

November 13, 2009
No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'.
William Jess MacDonald (captain of the Texas Ranger, 1852 - 1918)

November 9, 2009
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie (American writer, 1845 - 1916)

November 2, 2009
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt (20th century American stateswoman and First Lady)

October 26, 2009
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank (victim of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe -- from her Diaries)

October 19, 2009
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination, and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop (Greek philosopher)

October 13, 2009
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Sir Winston Churchill (British politician)

October 7, 2009
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
James D. Miles

October 2, 2009
Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
Doug King (poet)

September 28, 2009
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson (Third American president; political philosopher)

September 21, 2009
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney (American animator)

September 16, 2009
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin (French writer)

September 10, 2009
You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.  You're on your own. And you know what you know.  You are the guy who'll decide where you're going to go.
Theodor Geisel/Dr. Seuss (American writer and cartoonist)

Just a reminder that all Signet students (especially 6th grade) need a composition book for class warm-ups.  These composition books will be used for creative writing, problem-solving, brainstorming, outlining, etc. 

Students use prior knowledge, creativity, and research skills to create their own country.