Welcome, Sophomore English students!
I am so excited to have you all in my class this year. One of the ways we will write and publish our thoughts is on this class blog. To start, you will need to log into your gmail account in order to post.
Here is the first prompt you will need to respond to. Please write 3-5 complete sentences:
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
~William Shakespeare
Now that you are Sophomores in high school, you should know that the Greek roots of the word "Sophomore" actually translate to wise fool. What does that phrase mean to you? When you consider the quote and the phrase above, what do you come to understand? How does the quote apply to life in general?
*Note: this is not meant as a put-down to you! I just wanted you to think about it :)
**Your post will need to be moderated, so it may not pop up immediately.
a "wise fool" to means to me is that a person can be so wise but yet be a fool. It also means to me that something so wise can also be misplaced as a fool. It applys to life because the older you get the wiser you are. As we are young now, we are fools. That's why we are called Sophomores because as freshmen, but as we are growing up, we are becoming wise.
ReplyDeleteBell Work: Sometimes you may not be really looking at yourself in a figurative mirror and noticing flaws you need to fix. You would be fooling yourself. A wise person would really look at themselves and make needed adjustments. There are two types of people: those that just go with the flow and those who choose to change to fit and adapt to new circumstances.
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ReplyDeleteI believe sophomores are quoted as "wise fool" because since we are sophomores, most of us are maturing mentally and getting the hang of things. The fool part of the quote means that we are still only sophomores, meaning we haven't fully matured and will still sometimes make childish decisions.
I suppose it is an oxymoron; I can conclude that if a person thinks he is already intelligent, then he will be striving against learning new things, getting help from others But a wise man is the opposite of that. He will see himself anything but less than being unwise, so when he is not certain about something he will have the courage to ask, and to make as many attempts as he could to be the best and to get more wiser, therefore he learns from the wiser rather than to be filled with vanity and miss all the knowledge that he could be acquiring. In general it is saying that we all should be open to an experience that is to come and that we have to start from the bottom, in order to reach the top.
ReplyDeleteSomeone who thinks they know everything if a fool because have many things yet to learn. A wise man knows he is a fool because even though he has been around and knows a lot, he still has so much he doesn't yet know. No matter what your knowledge you aren't the wisest. The wise can learn from the foolish as the foolish can learn from the wise
ReplyDeletesome people think that they are the best can be a fool. And a wise man can be wise but he can also be foolish because he thinks he knows everything. But he leans from making foolish mistakes
ReplyDeleteI believe that right now we may think we are wise or are making wise decisions, but as we mature and learn more things we will look back at things and realize we were foolish. The younger you are the more foolish the older the more wiser, because of the things you have been through and have learned from
ReplyDeleteA fool "thinks" he is wise but a wise man knows he is not always wise. Wise men are usually older so that is what makes them wise.
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