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Aug142009

POSTED AT 07:04 PM

REMEMBER You are required to respond online at least 1 time each quarter.  However, you are encouraged to respond more often.

Option 1:
Read the following quote by Willa Cather.  In your response, write what you think the quote means.  Next, say why it is important to your work as a student.

Option 2:
If students have already commented on the quote, you may decide to write in response to something someone else has said.

"Most of the best material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."  - Willa Cather (author of My Antonia)


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  • Lindsay B.

    My opinion is that this is not totally true because you might be inspired to write about things in your adult life or things you want to happen to you later on in life.

    9/9/2009 7:45:16 PM
  • Jordan Krauss

    i really don't like Obama so i don't really pay atention to his speeches and advise....sorry.
    Jordan Krauss
    period 2

    9/9/2009 10:47:01 PM
  • jeff uyeska

    I never got to see or hear the speech all the way. But I like how he said "you drop school you quit on your country".

    9/9/2009 11:39:44 PM
  • Cesar Orozco

    This quote means to me that it's not impossible to be a writer it just hard work and passion.

    9/10/2009 11:55:04 PM
  • Kyle Glick

    I think this quote means that the young person's mind is more open to ideas and concepts than that of an adult.

    9/13/2009 2:56:17 PM
  • miguel palafox

    I think the quote means that once your fifteen you have good ideas to write a story or book and your ready and know everything you need to make a good book.

    9/14/2009 8:22:34 PM
  • Taylor-Mae Meijer

    my opinon is when your fifteen you know more words than you did when you were little so you would be a better writer at the age of fifteen

    10/10/2009 9:12:09 PM
  • Patrick Konkol

    I think this means that when you are young, you are in school and reading a lot. When you read a lot, you have lots of things to think about, and when you are young you are experiencing so many things that are new to you. I think this means that students should write more about what they are experiencing, in school and in life.

    10/11/2009 4:36:42 PM
  • Michael Sidikpramana

    i think it means when you are young you experience more new thing than when you are an adult there for young children have more passionate writing

    10/13/2009 8:10:01 PM
  • Daniel Smith

    I like how he said in his speech how when he lived in Indo his mommom did not have the money to send him to school so she taught him at like 4:00 AM.

    10/20/2009 5:41:39 PM
  • Jordan Krauss

    I dissagree with what this person is trying to say because i feel that i child might have more of an imagination than a n adult cause an adult has better things focus on. but also in a wya this might be the other way around depending on the type of person.

    10/20/2009 6:20:56 PM
  • Alex Piedra

    Ok I added A Comment an I agree with lidsnay B.

    11/4/2009 5:20:52 PM
 

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