Review ch 15 Read ch 16, 17, 18.
On Thursday of next week, we will be writing On Demand. You have a choice of lit analysis or on a narrative. The narrative should include three proverbs that are tied into the story. Make sure they are fresh proverbs, not stale ones. See some examples below.
Reminders:
Friday, May 24, Poem “The Second Coming” a full page
Wednesday, May 29, Final on Things Fall Apart
Thursday, May 30, Room 448 computer lab
Monday, June 3, Choice Reading due
Tuesday, June 4, D-Day
Wednesday, June 5, Letter to teacher done in-class
Afghan: You can't hold two watermelons in one hand.
Don't
look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Don’t
set sail using someone else’s star.
You condemn on hearsay evidence alone, your
sins increase
Burn
not your house to rid it of the mouse.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
African
Proverb
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African Proverb
The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door.
African
Proverb
There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense.
African Proverb
Only when you have crossed the river can you say the crocodile
has a lump on his snout.
Pick up the hen and you can gather all the chicks.
Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Ethiopian
Proverb
He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.
Ethiopian
Proverb
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian
Proverb
A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more
than its fill from a river.
Chinese
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without
imperfections.
Chinese
A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas; a dog hunting does not
notice them.
Chinese
A hundred men may
make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
A man without a smiling face must not open shop.
Chinese
Proverb
A murder may be forgiven, an affront never.
Chinese
A needle is not sharp at both ends.
Chinese
A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it.
Chinese
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese
A miser is ever in want.
Greek
A small evil may be a great good.
Greek
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek
Act quickly, think slowly.
Greek
Add not fire to fire.
Greek
Affairs sleep soundly when fortune is present.
Greek
Don't hear one and judge two.
Greek
Endeavour to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience.
Greek
He who has been angry becomes cool again.
Greek
He who laughs not in the morning, laughs not at noon.
Greek
Proverb
A bad bush is better than an open field.
French
A bad sheerer never had a good sickle.
French
Proverb
A black hen lays a white egg.
French Proverb
A hedge between keeps friendship green. French
A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots
on.
French
A summer's sun is worth the having.
French
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
French
Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.
Jewish
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.
Jewish
He is not called wise who knows good and ill, but he who can
recognize the two evils the lesser.
Jewish Proverb
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the
greatest violence.
Jewish Proverb
The sun will set without thy assistance.
Jewish
A bald head is soon shaven.
Irish
A good denial, the best point in law.
Irish
A house can't be kept without talk.
Irish
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the
corners.
Irish
A service not asked for, neither God nor man is thankful for.
Irish
Proverb
Anything will fit a naked man.
Irish Proverb
Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it.
Irish
Evening is speedier than morning.
Irish
Every invalid is a physician.
Irish
A field held in common is always ravaged by bears.
Russian
A jug that has been mended lasts two hundred years.
Russian
A lizard on a cushion will still seek leaves. Russian
After the head is off, one does not cry over the hair.
Russian
An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
Russian
Proverb
An icy May fills the granaries.
An indispensable thing never has much value.
Russian Proverb
An old loan repaid is like finding something new.
Russian
Proverb
As long as a child does not cry it does not matter what pleases
it.
Russian
A soft answer calms wrath- Rachel’s mom
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