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Remember the three "Rs" - Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.

Dates to remember:

Friday, June 13 - exams for periods 4 and 8
Monday, June 16 - exams for periods 1 and 9
Tuesday, June 17 - exams for periods 5 and 7
Wednesday, June 18 - exams for periods 2 and 3
Thursday, June 19 - exams for period 6 and make ups
Tuesday, June 24 - Last day for students - 
Wednesday, June 25 - Graduation!

SUMMER VACATION!

There is a wonderful benefit to having all these days off. Ok, yes, you can go someplace warm and lie on the beach, but you also have the time to catch up on and/or get ahead with your reading.

Summer reading requirements are posted at cliffsidepark.edu. Click on the high school page, then click on the summer reading link on the left.

Keep reading!

On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: 'As much,' said he, 'as the living are to the dead.' (Diogenes Laërtius, Aristotle, xi)

Bill Gates gave a speech at a high school about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this - Thank a teacher!

Get into the habit of carrying around a book. If you have time during the day, read it. Waiting on lines, if you finish a test before the period is over, sitting in a doctor's waiting room, sitting in detention - all these are good times to read instead of wasting time.

Interesting quotation: The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797)

Another interesting quotation: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968)

"Where you fly, you'll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest." - Dr. Seuss

- and my favorite - "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." Herm Albright

I received this in an e-mail message, and I thought it was appropriate for all of us:

   I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
   I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
   I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
   I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear
     much bigger.
   I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
   I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
   I wish you enough "Hello's" to get you through the final "Goodbye."

The On-line Writers Lab at Purdue University - This is an exceptional site!
A Guide to Grammar and Writing
Word of the Day
BCCLS-the Bergen County library system
Advanced Placement
Period 4 English 11
Period 6 English 10
Period 8 English 11
Period 9 English 10
English 11 Honors
Mrs. Morano's High School Booklist
Mrs. Morano's 7th Grade Booklist

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