6th Theatre Arts 1 Assignments
- Instructor
- John Luttman
- Term
- 2023-2024 School Year
- Department
- Electives
- Description
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Upcoming Assignments
No upcoming assignments.
Past Assignments
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4/28 Final Project
All instructions are in the PowerPoint.
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5/22 Last Warmup! Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin.
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5/19 Second to Last Warmup Don't let your mouth make your grade suffer.
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5/17 Warmup You must strive to find your own voice, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.
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5/16 Warmup Memories are the most powerful kind of magic there is
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5/12 Warmup To be or not to be that is the questions
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5/11 Warmup Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you
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5/10 Warmup Not everyone can save the world, but we can make a world worth saving
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5/9 Warmup What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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5/8 Warmup Every time someone steps up and does something different, they make the world a more interesting place
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5/5 Warmup The past can hurt, but you can either run form it or learn form it
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5/3 Warmup You’ve got two legs and a heartbeat. What’s stopping you?”
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5/1 Warmup You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
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4/28 Warmup Perfection itself is imperfection.
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4/27 Warmup Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep living anyway.
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4/24 Lip sync
We will be presenting this week. I have seen one group kind of work on chorography so lets fix that.
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4/26 Warmup Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what’s happened and continue living.
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4/25 Warmup We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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4/24 Warmup It’s more important to master the cards you’re holding than to complain about the ones your opponent was dealt
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4/21 Warmup The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
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4/20 Warmup Whatever you lose, you’ll find it again. But what you throw away you’ll never get back
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4/19 Warmup If you are working on something that you really care about. You don't have to be pushed, it pulls you.
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4/17 Warmup Home is any four walls that enclose the right person
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4/14 They say you should do 6 impossible things before breakfast
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4/13 Warmup Be curious, not judgmental.
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4/12 Warmup Even a great white eagle can be bested by a murder of crows.
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4/11 Warmup If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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4/3 Memorizing Shakespeare's Sonnet
I would like you to memorize Shakespeare's sonnet that you were given and rewrote it modern terms. We will present them, If you use the Shakespeare's version you will get bonus points for it.
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4/6 Warmup how do you measure a year in the life?
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4/5 Warmup Just because someone stumbles and loses their way, it doesn't mean they are lost forever
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4/4 Warmup Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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4/3 Warmup Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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3/29 Sonnet scene
You are taking the sonnet you were given and creating a scene around the sonnet to why the person is saying the sonnet.
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3/31 Warmup With it being national Crayola day What is your favorite color
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3/30 Warmup We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
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3/29 Warmup A forest bird never wants a cage.
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2/28 Warmup The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it
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3/24 Shakespeare's Sonnets
I would like you to take the sonnet that was given to you and take it form his wording and language and Turn it into a modern language in your own way. If you are having trouble I know there is a few places online that could help translate what the Shakespearean words mean.
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3/27 Warmup When you want different for yourself, you have to start moving different. Old keys do not unlock new doors.
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3/24 Warmup Let me be that i am and seek not to alter me
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3/23 Warmup Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
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3/22 Warmup Legacy is planting a seed in a garden you never get to see
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3/21 Warmup Are you trying to achieve greatness or are you trying to avoid disappointment
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3/9 Warmup Let go or be dragged
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3/8 Warmup It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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3/7 Warmup Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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3/6 Warmup What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.
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3/3 Watch and critique
https://youtu.be/o-gLbgpzCc8. I want you to watch this Disney play and tell me how your would do things differently
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3/3 Warmup You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put it into the teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash.
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3/2 Warmup An empty canvas is full.
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3/1 Warmup In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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2/28 warmup Bob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies: Who cares about perfection? Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters. The sea is incredibly beautiful but salty and dark in the depths. The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy. So, everything that is beautiful isn't perfect, it's special. Therefore, every woman can be special to someone. Stop being "perfect", but try to be free and live, doing what you love, not wanting to impress others. I just love this!
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2/9 Playwright Research
you are researching a play write
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2/27 Warmup I believe that every human mind feels happiness in doing good to another.
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2/24 Warmup Next time you’re afraid to share ideas remember that someone in a meeting said let’s make a film about a tornado with sharks in it
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2/23 Warmup You are free to choose but you are not free from the consequence of your choice
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2/22 Warmup The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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2/21 Warmup To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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2/16 Warmup it’s always too early to quit.
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2/15 Warmup It's not a bad thing finding out that you don't have all the answers. You start asking the right questions
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2/14 Warmup The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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2/13 Warmup Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway
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2/8 Magic If questions
I want you to answer these 3 questions about your character form the Duet Scene you just did. Each answer should be at least 1 paragraph long.
1.What do I (the character) do?
2.Why do I (the character) do it?
3.How do I (the character) do it?
1.What do I (the character) do?
2.Why do I (the character) do it?
3.How do I (the character) do it?
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2/10 Warmup Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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2/9 Warmup Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
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2/8 Warmup If you do lose that doesn't make you losers. You learn as much as who you are and what you are from losing as much as you are from winning if not more.
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2/7 Warmup I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
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2/6 Warmup What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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2/3 Warmup Believe you can and you are halfway there
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2/2 Warmup Kites rise highest against the wind not with it.
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2/1 Warmup Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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1/10 Duet Acting Scenes
Instructions are in powerpoint
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1/31 Warmup A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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1/30 Warmup Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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1/27 Warmup For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing
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1/23 Memorization technics
I want you to review the document and figure out which Technic works best for you. Then in the comments I want you to tell me which one and why it is the best for you.
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1/25 Warmup The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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1/24 Warmup I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
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1/23 Warmup If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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1/20 Warmup Dont be sorry, be better If we care for the future we must be better.
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1/19 Warmup That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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1/18 Warmup We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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1/17 GOTE
Answer the questions form the GOTE sheet below about your character. For the last question I only want 1 Paragraphs not a whole page
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1/17 Warmup In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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1/13 Warmup If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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1/12 Warmup Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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1/11 Warm up There is no use worrying about things you can’t control just embrace them head on.
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1/10 Warmup Your story may not have a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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1/9 Warmup kind people find out that they are cruel. Brave men discover that they are really cowards! Confronted by their true selves, most men run away screaming!
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12/13 Warmup Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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12/12 Warmup Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
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12/9 Warmup When the world is filled with colors sometimes we miss the things in black and white.
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12/8 Warmup The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.
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12/7 Warmup The most worth-while things is to try out happiness into the lives of others.
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12/6 Warmup A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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12/5 Warmup Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock
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12/2 Warmup Conflict cannot survive without your participation
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12/1 Warmup Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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11/30 Warmup You know, they very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their view to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.
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11/29 Warmup Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
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11/28 Warmup Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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10/31 Theatre History Project
Instructions in PowerPoint
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11/18 Warmup A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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11/17 Warmup But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
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11/16 Warm up It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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11/15 Warmup The surest way to corrupt the youth is to instruct them to hold higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
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11/14 Warmup. People think that saying I love you is the hardest thing to say, but really it’s I forgive you.
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11/11 Warm up Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
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11/10 Warmup At the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same box
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11/9 warmup confidence is quiet. Insecurities are loud.
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11/8 Warmup The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried
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11/4 Warm up A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else
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11/3 Warmup Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing
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11/2 Warmup I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.
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11/1 Warmup Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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10/28 Warmup Sometimes the face we wear all the time is the real mask.
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10/27 Warmup When you are rushing around every where sometimes you miss the beauty of life
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10/26 Warmup In darkness only ambition will guide you
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10/25 warmup people say life short but it’s really the longest thing you do
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10/24 warmup There is no use worrying about things you cant control just embrace them head on.
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10/13 Monologue project
Instructions on what is need is in PowerPoint, with video attached of examples of monologues. (do not pick those monologues pick something else.
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10/21 Warmup The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more
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10/20 Warmup When life give you lemons, make beefs stew
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10/19 Warmup Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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10/18 Warmup Where there is no vision, there is no hope
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10/17 Warmup I’ll tend to the flames, while you can worship the ashes
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10/14 Warmup But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose
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10/13 Warmup Your story may not have a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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10/12 Warmup Let people do what they need to do to make them happy, mind your own business and do what you need to do to make you happy. the end
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10/11 Warmup The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention
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10/6 Warmup I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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9/20 Poetry
You will be finding poetry pieces that fit a theme and follow the rules in the power point
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10/5 Warm up Your life is not yours if you constantly care what others think
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10/4 Warmup A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of fools
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10/3 Warmup The same wind that seeks to blow out a fire may also cause its spread
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9/30 Warmup Your story may not have a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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9/27 Poetry Intro
Your intro should describe the theme of the poems but not include you in it.
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9/29 Warmup Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go
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9/28 Warmup When you see something wrong you can either do nothing or do something
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9/27 Warmup People think the worst thing in life is to end up alone. The worst thing in life is to end up around people who make you feel alone.
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9/26 Warmup Don’t let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want
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9/23 Warmup sometimes Change is the only thing we know will happen, and it’s the one thing we don’t always want
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9/22 Warmup You can’t take back what you said so don’t freight over it, all you can do is atone for your actions done
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9/21 Warmup When you see something wrong you can either do nothing or do something.
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9/20 Warmup The idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
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9/19 Warmup Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better
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9/15 Warmup Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you
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9/14 Warmup If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining
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9/13 Warmup The circumstance of ones birth are irrelevant, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are
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9/12 Warm up Next time you are afraid to share ideas remember someone once said in a meeting lets make a film with a tornado full of sharks
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9/9 Warmup Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyways
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9/8 Warm up the biggest communication problem is we don’t listen to understand, we listen to reply.
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9/7 Warmup Bad things happen to good people because things happen all the time, and it is up to people to determine whether they are bad or good. In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks.
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9/6 Warm up You shouldn’t try hurting yourself simply because you don’t like who you are right now. You would only be deceiving yourself for a punishment that is fleeting and impulsive
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9/2 Warmup Too many people give up so easily so close to the start
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9/1 Warmup Before you know it tomorrow has just become another memory
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8/23 Prose
Look at the powerpoint for info and the Drive has a bunch of different premade pieces already.
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8/31 Warmup When we can talk about our feelings they become less overwhelming, less upsetting and less scary.
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8/30 Warmup To many people give up so easily so close to the start
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8/29 Warmup Dreams make good stories but everything important happens when we are awake
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8/26 Warmup Don’t let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want
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8/25 Warmup The only way someone can live in peace is if they are prepared to forgive
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8/24 Warmup Why do we fear death? it is as natural to die as it is to be born
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8/23 Warmup We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us
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Finishing the 9 questions
Finish up the questions and we will review them Monday
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8/17 Hagens 9 question
On your own either on paper or on google word answer the 9 questions.
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8/22 Warmup There is few of us who are secure enough To be really in love without proper encouragement.
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8/19 If life was easy you would be bored
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8/18 Warm up A Bowl is more useful when it is empty
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8/17 Warmup Every time you say something bad about yourself you are putting iron weights in your pocket sooner or later you will drag yourself down and won’t be able to get up
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8/15 Warmup Lions don't concern themselves with the opinions of sheep
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8/12 Warmup Your shape depends on what is inside your heart
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8/11 Warmup You are not what you were born to do, but what you have in you
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