Notes
Short Story Notes - Conflict
Short Story Notes - POV
Short Story Notes - Characters
Short Story Notes - Terms
Short Story - Grid
Poetry Notes - Terms
General Lectures - Lenses of Literature
Parts of an Essay
Common Misconceptions
Startling Statistics
Quotes
Short Story Notes - POV
Short Story Notes - Characters
Short Story Notes - Terms
Short Story - Grid
Poetry Notes - Terms
General Lectures - Lenses of Literature
Parts of an Essay
- Introduction with hook
- A good proper thesis
- Strong topic sentences for each body paragraph
- A good support sentence for each body paragraph
- Quotes integrated properly
- Conclusion (bookending preferred)
Common Misconceptions
- Fortune cookies are an American invention.
- Crime in the United States decreased between 1993 and 2017. The violent crime rate fell 49% in that period, and the number of gun homicides has decreased
- Napoleon was short. He was actually 5’7″, which was slightly taller than the average Frenchman at the time.
- Henry Ford invented the first automobile. Karl Benz (co-founder of Mercedes-Benz) invented the first modern, gasoline-run automobile.
- You only use 10% of your brain. Brain scans have shown that no matter what someone is doing, all brain areas are active to some degree.
- An espresso shot has more caffeine. A shot of espresso has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.
- Peanuts are nuts. Peanuts actually belong to the legume family along with beans and peas.
- Leaving your phone charging after 100% damages the battery. Today’s lithium-ion batteries are advanced enough to stop charging when full. The charger will still draw a small amount of current, though, so unplugging it can save a bit of money.
- Bulls are enraged by the colour red. Bulls are colourblind to red and green, like all cattle. It’s the movement of the cape that riles them up.
- Cats and dogs are colorblind. They mostly see shades of blue, gray, and yellow, much like a human with red-green colorblindness.
- Chameleons change color to match their surroundings. Chameleons change color to reflect their mood, communicate, and adjust to changes in temperature and light.
- The world’s tallest mountain is Everest. Everest rises the highest above sea level (29,035 feet), but Mauna Kea is the highest from base to summit, at 33,500 feet. However,13,796 feet of it is submerged in the Pacific Ocean.
Startling Statistics
- The global rate for washing hands after using the toilet is under 20 percent.
- Five countries make up 60 percent of worldwide military.
- Drake was streamed more than 8 billion times in 2018 alone.
- Americans are eating 4.2 billion avocados annually.
- There are nearly 12,000 annual injuries related to TVs falling in the U.S.
- Americans spend more than $72 billion on their pets annually.
- The odds of an average person dying from contact with hornets, wasps, or bees is one in 63,225.
- Every year, there are 95 billion packets of ramen sold
- Costco sells 60 million rotisserie chickens a year
- Dragonflies have a 95% hunt success rate. Marking them the most effective hunters in the world.
Quotes
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
- Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead
- "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -Henry David Thoreau
- "Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." -Tennyson
- "The only thing that feels better than winning is winning when nobody thought you could." - Hank Aaron
- "Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
- "The best way to find out what you want in life is to try a lot of things." - Oprah Winfrey
- "Don't let anyone tell you what you can't do. Follow your dreams and persist." - Barack Obama
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” - Mae West
- “The only way to do great work is to live what you do.” - Steve Jobs
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” - Will Rogers
- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu
- "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
- "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela