Your dialogues are due today.
Tomorrow there is a vocabulary quiz on the Gout words from last week.
On Thursday, as well, we are performing your plays.
In class we are looking at aphorisms
An aphorism is a short, concise statement expressing a wise or clever observation or a general truth. A variety of devices make aphorisms easy to remember. Some aphorisms contain rhymes or repeating words or sounds; others contain two phrases that present contrasting ideas using the same grammatical structure. For example, the contemporary aphorism “when the going gets tough, the tough get going,” contains repeated words and contrasting ideas.
Most of Benjamin Franklin’s aphorisms are adapted from proverbs, anonymous traditional sayings. Franklin, who believed that clarity and brevity were two of the most important characteristics of good prose, rewrote the traditional sayings, making them short, direct and witty.
From Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
Hunger is the best pickle.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Fish and visitors smell after three days.
Keep they shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down the hedge.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
God helps those who help themselves.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
The rotten apple spoils his companions.
If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some.
A small leak will sink a great ship.
Drive thy business; let it not drive thee.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is make of.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
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