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please click on the “Letters of Recommendation” tab at left
and read the instructions.
 
NINTH GRADE PLAY
AUDITION DATES HAVE BEEN CHANGED!
For audition information, click on Ninth Grade Play at left.
 
 
{MOUNT}
Or like stout Mr. Leib with eagle eyes;
He stared at Ho-ho-kus—and with all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
 
{self}
A recent photograph of Mr. Leib teaching Honors British Literature.
 
{q-c}
 
Almost always prefer the concrete word to the abstraction.
Almost always prefer the direct word to the circumlocution.
— Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
 
{Maugham}

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately,
no one knows what they are.—W. Somerset Maugham
 
{Cervantes}
 

Express yourself in a plain, easy manner, in well-chosen,
significant, and decent terms, and give an harmonious
and pleasing turn to your periods.—Miguel de Cervantes
 
{france}
 
 
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.—Anatole France
 
{Twain}
The difference between the right word and
the almost right word is the difference between
 lightning and the lightning bug.—Mark Twain
{berra}
 
 
 
When you come to a fork in the road,
take it.—Lawrence P. Berra
 
 
 
 
To view current assignments for
English 9,
click on English 9 at left.
 
To view current assignments for
Honors British Literature,
click on Honours British Literature at left.
 
To view current assignments for
Honors Humanities,
click on Honors Humanities at left.
 
 
I have started holding short writing/grammar seminars. Come join me and your fellow students
every Wednesday morning at 7:15.
Click on the links below for the PowerPoints that accompany the seminars:
 
 
 
 
The source for everything Chaucer: http://www.unc.edu/depts/chaucer/
 
 
 
 
A list of good transition words and phrases.

For a free sample SAT, click here.
(You must register with the College Board
to access the test.)

My e-mail address:
leibp
at
northernhighlands.org

My telephone extension:
408

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