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Grade(s): 5-9
Activities: 55
Pages: 64
Challenge students' minds with witty, surprising, humorous, insightful, curious, wise, and fascinating quotes! This handy collection of 55 quotes, spoken or written by fascinating people from the past and present, is specifcially chosen to:
- wake up the brain
- ignite critical thinking
- challenge students to dig beneath the surface, and
- push them to analyze, infer and brainstorm - stretching their minds in new directions.
Use these in any classroom and any subject area. They’re also great for warm-ups, advisory lessons, or character education classes. Can also be used at home - around the dinner table or in the car - to initiate discussion.
Each quote is accompanied by tasks that engage students with the quote and nudge them to ponder it, examine it from various viewpoints, discuss it with classmates, draw conclusions about it, create new ideas, and relate it to their own lives.
Find quotes on topics such as enemies, friendship, celebrity, achievement, secrecy, poetry, words, perseverance, environment, self-knowledge, goals, adolescence, learning, care for others, attitude, innovation, love, money, intelligence, possibilities, discontent, community, and integrity.
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