DO NOT POST COMMENTS UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO

AS OF 2/26 STUDENTS ARE NOW GIVEN PERMISSION TO POST THEIR COMMENTS.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUOTES FOR IRP

Choose a quote with a KNOWN author.
Your quote should be set up in the following manner.

Choose an appropriate title for your quote post, i.e. Becky's quote about winter, John's quote about happiness

"Put your chosen quote in quotation marks."
List the author of your quote underneath.
Leave a space.
Somewhere in the body of your quote include a picture that enhances your quote post.
Key in some background information on your author or something interesting you discovered about your author during the research of your quote that would be of interest to your peers.
Key in why you chose this quote, and/or why it has meaning to your life, etc.

Please have all quotes posted by the end of week 5.
When all quotes have been posted, I will instruct you to make comments (minimum of two). Pick two or more quotes by fellow classmates and add a comment to their post. You may comment on their quote or on their author or on the information they shared. Comments should be posted by the end of week 8.

Inappropriate quote posts or comments will not be tolerated and will result in a failing IRP grade. Build each other up, not tear each other down.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Mistakes


"A man's errors are his portals of discovery." James Joyce


James Joyce was an Irish novelist, who was born in 1882 and passed away in 1941. Joyce is widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939).


I choose this quote because it's the truth. Everone has made mistakes in their life in one way or another and it is up to the individual to either learn from their mistakes or continue to make the same mistakes again. Making mistakes is how we learn what is right from wrong. Everyone makes mistakes, noone is prefect. A mistake could be as simple as a typing error or as bad as stealing someones property, in the end making a mistake is what makes us an individual.
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2 comments:

The Mad Kilted Jamesman said...

The first time I read this particular blog there was an intentional typing error in the last sentence. That fine piece of subtle humor is now gone, and I just wanted to let you know it is missed.

That said and put aside, I find your quote choice and interpretation to be very insightful.

February 26, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Chelsea said...

I wish I could have found this quote when I was a teen. I have made so many mistakes in my life and I have done nothing but learn from them. I feel that my mistakes have changed my life for the better and gave me the chance to rediscover myself.

March 18, 2008 at 2:28 PM

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