QUOTE OF THE DAY

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires
  avid faith in yourself. That is why some people
  with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive,
  go much further than people with vastly superior
  talent.
• Sophia Loren

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Vocabulary

• Avid
• Mediocre
• Vastly

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Definitions

• Avid - enthusiastic ardent dedicated keen

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• Avid - enthusiastic ardent dedicated keen
• Mediocre - of only ordinary or moderate quality
  neither good nor bad barely adequate.

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• Avid - enthusiastic ardent dedicated keen
• Mediocre - of only ordinary or moderate quality
  neither good nor bad barely adequate.
• Vastly - of very great area or extent immense
  the vast reaches of outer space. Or very great in
  degree, intensity, etc. an artisan of vast
  skill.

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Brain Teaser

• So far this term I've read 5 books. The
  historical fiction book I read had 20 pages more
  than the mystery. Together, they have just 42
  pages more than the classic. The sports story
  that I'm reading is the shortest of them all. I'm
  on page 70 and am halfway through. The sports
  story has 10 fewer pages than the biography. When
  I am finished I will have read 968 pages all
  together. My teacher wants to know how many pages
  are in each book.

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What do you know?

• Total number of pages read
• Theres a total of ___ books
• The relationship between the number of pages in
  each book.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1000
• 1635
• 1781
• 1812
• 1888
• 1930
• 1949

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1000

• Leif Erikson supposedly landed on North American
  mainland near Newfoundland
• 1. Son of Erik the Red. Exiled from Iceland
  and forced to move west
• 2. Settled for several years in Greenland
• 3. Eventually traveled further west to what
  is now Newfoundland.

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1635

• Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished
  from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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• Left England for Massachusetts in 1630
• Preached in both Boston and Salem
• Had problems with the Puritans
• He went to what is now known as Rhode Island, and
  founded the first Baptist church in America, and
  edit the first dictionary of Native American
  languages.

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1781

• In the last major battle of the Revolutionary
  War, American and French armies under General
  George Washington started bombarding Lord
  Cornwallis's British forces at Yorktown,
  Virginia.

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1812

• On Lake Erie during the War of 1812, American
  forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit
  and Caledonia.
• This war cemented American Independence once and
  for all

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Oldest ship in the U.S. Navy USS Constitution.
In service since construction in 1797

• Battle with the HMS Guerriere'

• USS Constitution aka
• Old Ironsides

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1888

• The public was first
• admitted to the
• Washington Monument
• Started in 1848, finished
• In 1884.

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1930

• Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale,
  California, in her Moth biplane, thus completing
  the first solo transcontinental flight by a
  woman.

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Set many records

• Longest solo flight ever made by a woman at
  17,000 miles
• First solo flight by a woman from North to South
  America
• First solo flight around South America by man or
  woman
• First complete flight by a land plane around
  South America by a man or woman.
• First American woman to fly the Andes solo
• Accused of spying in 1942 for the Germans, spent
  time in prison.

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1949

• Harvard Law School began admitting women.

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Birthdays

• 1873 - Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American
  pharmacist, known as the "Father of the Modern
  Drugstore."
• 1940 - John Lennon, British singer-songwriter,
  member of The Beatles.

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